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Novatek

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Novatek’s new Arctic license areas located in protected nature reserve

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, September 10, 2021 at 14:16
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The natural gas company was awarded the controversial licenses after it sent a letter to the Kremlin. Company leader Leonid

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Big oil, gas and coal making headway on Russian Arctic coast

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, August 17, 2021 at 10:45 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 17, 2021 at 10:48
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Hundreds of ships loaded with construction materials shuttle to the sites of new nonrenewable energy projects. Over the past year,

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Shipping, climate & business opportunities in the North: Q&A with the Arctic Economic Council

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, July 5, 2021 at 15:20
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Russia took over the rotating two-year chairmanship of the Arctic Economic Council (AEC) in May. Shipping and maritime safety are

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First plane lands in Novatek’s new airport in Arctic Russia

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, June 18, 2021 at 10:45
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The 1,550 meter long runway is now ready to operate round-the-year as part of the company’s Arctic LNG 2 project.

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Rigs sail north for drilling in Russian Arctic

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 at 09:15
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Wells will this summer be drilled in the the Kara Sea and the Gulf of Ob. Jackup rig Perro Negro 8 this

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The headquarters of Total, in La Defense business district, near Paris. (Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images)
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Total buys stake in Murmansk LNG terminal in Arctic Russia

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 08:05
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The French company acquires 10 percent of Arkticheskaya Perevalka, the subsidiary company of Novatek that will operate a natural gas

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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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In Russian Arctic energy shift, Novatek might turn from LNG to ammonia

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 11:04
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The natural gas company intended to produce up to 5 million tons of LNG in its Ob project. It might

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Business Business (Russia) Russia 

Construction of new icebreaking tanker fleet underway amid looming crisis in Arctic LNG project

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 at 15:40 — Last Updated: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 at 15:43
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The Zvezda yard in Vladivostok will have plenty of complex Arctic shipbuilding to do over the next years. Not only

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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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Russia Society (Russia) 

Almost 2,000 workers have contracted COVID-19 at this Russian Arctic construction site

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 at 11:03
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A big cruise vessel has anchored up along the banks of the Kola Bay as the number of infected workers

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Russia Society Society (Russia) 

Risking death for Arctic gas? Northern Russia construction site becomes COVID-19 hotbed

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, April 27, 2020 at 12:42
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Dramatic increase with 192 new cases confirmed on Friday and another 105 on Saturday in the district of Novatek’s construction

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Russia Society (Russia) 

Novatek construction site faces fastest growing coronavirus outbreak in northern Russia

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 at 10:46
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Work continues at Novatek’s construction site north of Murmansk where thousands of fly-in, fly-out employees share cramped space in barracks.

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As LNG prices hit historical low, Russia decides not to fund new Arctic projects

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 at 13:49
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Natural gas company Novatek might not get the state support it needs for new major infrastructure projects in the Arctic.

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Business (Russia) General Russia 

Drilling rigs end activities in Russia’s Arctic waters as winter nears

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 14:42 — Last Updated: Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 09:31
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Three drilling rigs have this year spud wells in the Kara Sea and the Gulf of Ob, in Arctic Russia.

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