The 70,000 ton ice-protected tanker “Mikhail Ulyanov” will be put on the water in Sankt Petersburg next week. The vessel is one of Russia’s new generation Arctic tankers
When police in Murmansk suspected that the trawler “Sever” had been engaged in illegal catch, the trawler captain decided to sink the vessel in order to conceal irregularities.
The Murmansk regional government has decided to shut down the village Rikolatva in the Kovdor municipality. The only production enterprise in the village is bankrupt.
In its crisis meeting today, the Gazprom Board of Directors left the company’s 2009 budget and investment programme unchanged. The company intends, however, to “optimize” spending and buy more Russian-produced technology.
Norwegian oil major StatoilHydro will need an oil price level of 55 USD per barrel to cover all investments and expenses in 2009. Currently the oil price is just above 40 USD.
The Russian and Finnish Ministries of Interior have agreed to strengthen control in border areas, where crimes within high technology and economics are on the rise.
The Swedish Central Bank today lowered interest rates to a historically low one percent. The economic downturn is worse than expected, the bank admits. Also the northern parts of the country are increasingly affected.
The new challenges in the Barents Region and the enhanced EU interests in the region should make the union elaborate an EU Barents Strategy, BarentsObserver writes in an editorial.
Gazprom says both Total and Shell are on the shortlist as possible partners for the planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) project on the Yamal Peninsula.
MURMANSK: The Murmansk regional parliament will adopt the legislation necessary for a successful oil and gas development in the region, parliament speaker Yevgenii Nikora said today.
