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No foreign companions as Gazprom prepares well drilling in Arctic waters

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, July 21, 2022 at 10:54
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The semisubmersible rig on the 17th of July set out from Murmansk with course for one of Gazprom’s remote Arctic

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First Baltic Sea voyage for Russia’s 4th generation multi-purpose sub

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 12:43 — Last Updated: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 12:47
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Last autumn, the “Severodvinsk” test launched the submarine version of Russia’s new hypersonic Tsirkon cruise missile in the Barents Sea.

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Nickel-tycoon Vladimir Potanin has big plan for Arctic hub Dudinka

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, July 18, 2022 at 14:21 — Last Updated: Monday, July 18, 2022 at 14:25
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A significant expansion of capacities is underway in the far northern port town of Dudinka as shipping on the northern

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* Featured * Business Business (Russia) Featured • Zone 3 General Russia 

Rosneft announces big oil finding in icy Pechora Sea

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, July 7, 2022 at 13:01
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The Russian state-run oil company estimates the deposit to contain 82 million tons of oil. The discovery is made in

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* Featured * Business Business (Russia) Countries Featured • Zone 2 General Russia 

Europe-Asia Arctic route loaded at one-tenth of capacity

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 at 15:26
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Rosatom engages the world’s only civilian nuclear-powered cargo vessels for yet another year on voyages between St. Petersburg and Petropavlovsk,

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* Featured * Business Business (Russia) Featured • Zone 3 General Russia 

We’re building a ‘Noah’s Ark’ in the Arctic, Rosneft CEO says in speech

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 09:53
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A great Flood is on its way from the West, Igor Sechin warns. He finds salvation in Arctic project Vostok

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* Featured * Business Business (Russia) Featured • Zone 3 General Russia 

Russia sends year’s first vessel east on Northern Sea Route

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, June 20, 2022 at 09:42
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Russia’s brand new icebreaker “Sibir” this week broke through the most icy parts of the Northern Sea Route. Western sanctions

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* Featured * Business Business (Russia) Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Russia 

Russian renewable energy soon without foreign partners

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 10:04
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Finnish energy company Fortum is exiting Russia. The same could soon be the case with Enel and other western power

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Business Business (Russia) Featured • Zone 1 Russia 

Japan government bank extends freeze of loan to Arctic LNG 2

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, June 10, 2022 at 10:48 — Last Updated: Friday, June 10, 2022 at 10:53
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The loan agreement signed last November between the Russian natural gas project and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)

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* Featured * Business Business (Russia) Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Russia 

With nickel in great demand, Nornickel expands Kola mine in Arctic Russia

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 10:23
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The Severny Gluboky mine located near Russia’s border to Norway will be made 300 meters deeper to keep up local

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* Featured * Business Business (Russia) Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Newsroom Picks • zone 2 Russia 

Biggest construction sites in Arctic Russia could turn into ghost towns

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 14:35
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Thousands of jobs will vanish if projects like the Belokamenka Yard outside Murmansk come to halt. Several of Russia’s biggest

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* Featured * Business Business (Russia) Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Russia 

Russia’s Viktor Chernomyrdin icebreaker on maiden voyage to Arctic

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 15:51
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The world’s most powerful diesel-engined icebreaker is on its maiden voyage into thick Arctic sea-ice. The 147 meter long vessel

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* Featured * Business Business (Russia) Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Russia 

As Moscow prepared for war, Gazprom sold Arctic gas worth almost €140 billion

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 10:17
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The country’s main natural gas producer in 2021 recorded a 13-fold increase in profits. Gazprom has never before had the

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* Featured * Business Business (Russia) Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Russia 

Russia proceeds with Arctic project as oil embargo looms

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, May 3, 2022 at 09:44
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Nuclear-powered freighter Sevmorput continues to shuttle with construction goods to field development sites along the Yenisey River as part of

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* Featured * Business Business (Russia) Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Russia 

Novatek CEO admits Arctic development projects “strained”

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, April 25, 2022 at 16:00
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Company CEO Leonid Mikhelson admits that the development of far northern projects is “strained.” The natural gas producer declines to

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