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Rosneft

A file photo of liquefied natural gas reservoirs in the port of Sabetta on the Kara Sea shore line on the Yamal Peninsula in the Arctic circle, some 2500 km of Moscow.
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Companies building Russia’s Arctic mega-projects expect major tax breaks: reports

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, August 29, 2019 at 11:20
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Natural gas company Novatek gets 40 billion rubles tax deductions for the building of a grand port terminal in the

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Business Business (Russia) General Russia 

Rosneft announces more offshore drilling in Arctic Russia

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 10:48 — Last Updated: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 10:59
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Five years after it found one of the largest oil fields in Arctic waters, Rosneft makes clear that more drilling

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General News Russia Society Society (Russia) 

Russia’s Rosneft gives oil barrel-looking toys to zoo-enclosed polar bears

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, July 19, 2019 at 13:57 — Last Updated: Monday, July 22, 2019 at 09:47
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The plastic plaything is aimed to prevent the animals from going nuts in captivity. You might have seen one in

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Business Business (Russia) General News Russia 

Norwegian ships accompany Chinese rig to Russian Arctic drill site

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at 14:06 — Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2019 at 15:47
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A fleet of supply ships surround the Chinese rig “Nan Hai Ba Hao” as it gets ready to spud a

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General Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

Russia’s Rosneft demands tax breaks to build pipeline to Arctic shipping lane: report

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, July 11, 2019 at 11:46 — Last Updated: Thursday, July 11, 2019 at 11:49
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Rosneft makes clear that it can build a 600 km long pipeline to the Arctic Ocean and export millions of

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Business Business (Russia) General News Russia 

Arсtic oil field could be Russia’s biggest discovery in 30 years

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at 10:42 — Last Updated: Friday, May 10, 2019 at 12:08
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A major oil development project could soon unfold in the Yenisey River delta, Russia. Near the area where the river

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Business Business (Russia) General News Russia 

Russian oil giant Rosneft promises massive shipping boost on Northern Sea Route

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 14:10
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We will build an Arctic cluster that will help boost shipments on the Northern Sea Route, leader of Russia’s biggest

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Business Business (Russia) General News Russia 

Russia’s Rosneft considering pipeline to boost shipping on Northern Sea Route

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 16:24
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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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Business Business (Russia) General News Russia 

Oil majors feud over shipping from Arctic Russian terminal

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, October 4, 2018 at 12:25 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 4, 2018 at 12:28
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Russia’s two biggest oil producers are at odds over out-shipments from the Arctic terminal of Varandey. The partnership between Rosneft

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Business Business (Russia) General Russia 

Rosneft to oust Russian Navy from Murmansk shipyard

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 at 11:28 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 at 11:41
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The yard in Roslyakovo, only few kilometers from Murmansk City, has been of key importance for the repair of Northern

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Business Business (Russia) General News Russia 

Oil companies turned off by Siberia’s Taymyr peninsula

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 10:47 — Last Updated: Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 10:55
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Lukoil drills dry and Rosneft decides to postpone further developments in the area. The two oil majors in 2015 and

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Business Business (Norway) General News Norway 

Drilling in Norwegian Barents postponed due to dangerous gas

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at 11:07 — Last Updated: Friday, May 11, 2018 at 15:14
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No drilling in 2018 as risk of toxic and flammable hydrogen sulfide in the ground needs to be checked out.

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Business Business (Russia) General Russia 

ExxonMobil pulls out of Arctic cooperation with Rosneft

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, March 9, 2018 at 16:09 — Last Updated: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at 08:46
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ExxonMobil is giving up its comprehensive Arctic cooperation with Rosneft. The Norwegians still cling on. It was ExxonMobil that signed

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Business General Geopolitics Geopolitics (Norway) Norway 

A new wave of optimism for Arctic oil cooperation in Barents

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 09:54
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Hungry for new oil fields, Norway and Russia could find synergies if developing production in the maritime border areas north

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Business Business (Russia) General Russia 

Russian Duma tries to avoid Gazprom-Rosneft rumble over LNG

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, February 16, 2018 at 08:45
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The Energy Committee in the lower house of the Russian parliament has concluded that Rosneft should not be allowed to

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