Drilling rigs end activities in Russia’s Arctic waters as winter nears
Three drilling rigs have this year spud wells in the Kara Sea and the Gulf of Ob, in Arctic Russia.
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Russian Navy maps large area of Arctic seabed
Research vessels operated by Russia’s Northern Fleet have this summer mapped several thousand square kilometers of the Arctic shelf. A
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Rosneft announces more offshore drilling in Arctic Russia
Five years after it found one of the largest oil fields in Arctic waters, Rosneft makes clear that more drilling
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Norwegian ships accompany Chinese rig to Russian Arctic drill site
A fleet of supply ships surround the Chinese rig “Nan Hai Ba Hao” as it gets ready to spud a
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Chinese drilling rig returns to Arctic Russia
It is the third year in a row that drilling rig Nan Hai 8 arrives in Murmansk to prepare for
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Chinese rig makes massive gas discovery in Arctic Russia
The Nan Hai Ba Hao platform has found more than a trillion cubic meters of natural gas in the Kara
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Russia’s Rosneft considering pipeline to boost shipping on Northern Sea Route
In a sign of support for growing shipping on the Northern Sea Route, Rosneft mulls building of a 600-km-long pipeline
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Russia funds research to improve Arctic weather forecasts
The money is allocated from the government’s reserve fund and is to strengthen Arctic weather forecasting. The Russian government this
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December sea ice levels in Arctic Europe at record low
It is December and European Arctic waters are free of ice way north of Svalbard and Novaya Zemlya. Norwegian Ice Service,
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Snow crabs invading Russia’s Arctic nuclear waste dump
Researchers find a huge influx of snow crabs in areas with dumped radioactive waste in the Kara Sea, in Arctic
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Russia loosens ice-class requirements for Arctic shipping
With thinner Arctic ice comes softer regulations for vessels operating on the Northern Sea Route. The Russian Transport Ministry aims
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Climate change is driving micro-algae blooms into High Arctic and may affect food chains, says study
Micro-algae blooms at the base of marine food chains are heading north at a rate of one degree of latitude
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Arctic coastal town of Dikson is fastest-warming place in Russia
The town of Dikson and the surrounding Taymyr Peninsula, in Russia’s central Arctic, has the most rapid temperature increase in
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Venta Maersk container ship successfully breaks through ice on Northern Sea Route
With a speed of 11 knots the Venta Maersk sailed through the most difficult part of the Northern Sea Route,
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Russia’s Gazprom wants to build manmade islands for Arctic drilling, but will it clean up when it’s done?
Gazprom wants to build islands on shallow Arctic waters for well drilling, but argues that it will be too difficult
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