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Arctic oil-driller Gazprom Neft creates its own private military company

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 10:29
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Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on February 4 signed the order allowing Gazprom Neft to establish a private military company. The existence

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Blades start spinning at wind farm in Arctic Russia, weeks after Italian operator out

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, December 12, 2022 at 08:43
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It was projected and built by Italian energy company Enel, but when the far northern wind power park was launched

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Amid plummeting export, Gazprom opens new Arctic field

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, December 7, 2022 at 16:02 — Last Updated: Wednesday, December 7, 2022 at 16:08
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The Semakovskoye natural gas field is located offshore in the far northern Gulf of Ob. In a statement, Gazprom CEO Aleksei

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The Army is on its way to extinguish fire at Russia’s biggest natural gas field

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 10:06
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A raging blaze at the far northern Urengoy field is to be put out by a shot from an anti-tank

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Le siège social de Gazprom à Moscou. (Vasily Maximov / AFP)
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Gazprom’s new major Arctic project might be a dead end

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, September 8, 2022 at 09:44
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On the coast of the Kara Sea, construction workers are in full swing with the building of the Kharasavey natural

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Business Business (Russia) Featured • Zone 2 

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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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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Transportation crisis looms in Arctic Russia

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, April 22, 2022 at 12:14
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International sanctions threaten the country’s supply chains. Nuclear-powered container ship “Sevmorput” will this year play key role in supplying goods

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Russian Arctic stocks tumble as investors fear Ukraine conflict

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, January 24, 2022 at 10:02
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Geopolitical tensions scare investors at Moscow’s stock exchange Monday. Big businesses with most of their income from oil, gas and

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New pipeline across Russian Arctic bay stirs environmental concerns

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, December 30, 2021 at 12:33
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A new underwater pipeline connection across the great Arctic bay opens for untapping of major natural gas resources in the

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Putin says gas from Arctic Russia can provide long-term energy security for Europe and Asia

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, October 28, 2021 at 13:44
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We have more than 50 trillion cubic meters of natural gas reserves alone in the Yamal region, the President underlined

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Norwegian Oil Fund’s new eco standards add pressure on Arctic extractors

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, August 20, 2021 at 13:59
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The powerful sovereign wealth fund says it will pin its investments to a series of expectations on biodiversity and ecosystem.

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Russian oil companies forge ahead with new plans saying projects are green and environmentally friendly

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, July 12, 2021 at 08:08
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They are among the world’s biggest climate gas emitters. And they are trying to justify their huge new oil and

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Arctic in spotlight as Moscow pushes for global lead in LNG

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 11:40
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Russia’s new government Program on Liquified Natural Gas includes a series of new Arctic projects, among them possibly the Shtokman

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Business (Russia) Environment Russia 

Over 100 million cubic meters of sea bottom removed for natural gas project in Russian Arctic bay

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 at 12:51
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Never before has the Arctic seen an industrial expansion of this magnitude. In only few years, volumes of extracted hydrocarbons

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