Billions are invested in the Zvezda yard outside Vladivostok to make it capable of meeting Russia’s growing demand for ice-protected ships and platforms.
In the course of the last year, Norwegian industry has reduced power consumption with about 30 percent. That has resulted in a major Norwegian power surplus.
Governor of Murmansk Oblast Dmitry Dmitriyenko says it will be impossible for Russia to develop the Shtokman field in the Barents Sea without contributions from foreign partners. At the same, time he believes the grand gas project will give a boost to small and medium-sized companies in the region.
After a more than 20 percent drop in gas exports to the EU in 2009, Russia’s Gazprom this year intends to retake, and even increase, its European market share. That will be to the disadvantage of the country’s biggest competitor – Norway.
The Sevmash and Zvezdochka shipyards in Severodvinsk must complete the construction of the Prirazlomnaya platform and the Arkticheskaya jack-up rig in 2010, Gazprom Deputy Aleksandr Ananenkov stressed during his visit to the yards on Friday.
When developing the offshore shelf, Gazprom will seek to replace foreign-made equipment with analogues from Russian yards, company leaders told Russian shipbuilders.
An explosion yesterday took place at the oil tanker “Dzhamrat”, moored in the Port of Murmansk, following an uncontrolled increase of pressure in one of the vessel’s tanks.
A proposed law amendment from the Ministry of Natural Resources suggests to significantly improve foreign companies’ access to Russian strategic resources.
