Chinese drilling platform back in Russian Arctic
Drilling rig “Nan Hai Ba Hao” arrives in the far northern Russian city of Murmansk as Chinese oilmen get ready
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Kara Sea
Powerful LNG tankers head for China through thick Arctic ice
Two powerful tankers are on their way from Sabetta in this year’s first eastbound voyages through the Northern Sea Route.
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In late June, tankers still getting trapped in Russia’s Arctic ice
Shipping in the Gulf of Ob (Russian Arctic) is paralysed and the situation complicated, icebreaker company Rosatomflot says. It is
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Two more Russian rigs deployed for Arctic gas drilling
Jackup rig “Arcticheskaya” has arrived in Murmansk (Northwestern Russia) after 5 months of repair in Singapore, and sister rig “Amazon”
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Russia’s Arctic nuclear dump could become promising fishing area
Thousands of containers with radioactive waste were dumped in the Kara Sea during Soviet times. Now, Russia’s Federal Agency for
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ExxonMobil pulls out of Arctic cooperation with Rosneft
ExxonMobil is giving up its comprehensive Arctic cooperation with Rosneft. The Norwegians still cling on. It was ExxonMobil that signed
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Record heatwave in the Arctic
The people of Pevek, the small town on Russia’s east Arctic coast, could scent a smell of spring as they
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Putin wants a bigger, stronger, wealthier Russian Arctic
Delivering his state-of-the-nation speech to the parliament on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin highlighted the importance of speeding up the
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«Finland’s Pyhäjoki nuclear plant takes our pension money»
While four million elderly Russians live below the poverty line, the country’s pension fund pays for Rosatom-backed nuclear plant in
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Northern Sea Route is free of ice, Arctic shipping thrives
As Russian Arctic ice shrinks to this year’s lowest, a big number of ships are moving in. In waters normally
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Chinese rig starts drilling in Russian Arctic
The «Nanhai-VIII» spuds this year’s only offshore well in the oil-rich Russian Arctic region. The field is called Leningradskoye and
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On remote Russian Arctic coast, a grand coal project in the making
More than ten million tons of coal per year is to be floated out to the markets from Dikson, the
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Russian researchers besieged by polar bears on Arctic island
The five Russian researchers where trapped for days in their small cabin at the remote Arctic island of Troynoy. The
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Rosneft takes closer look at northernmost license areas
The Albanovsky area is located on the 80th parallel only 32 km from the coast of the Franz Josef Land.
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Arctic sea ice hit record low for January
Sea ice extent over the Arctic last month was the lowest for any January in the satellite record, with freeze-up slowed
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