Russia
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December 22, 2023
The so-called Extended Continental Shelf covers about 1 million square kilometers (386,100 square miles), predominantly in the Arctic and Bering Sea, an area of increasing strategic importance where Canada and Russia also have claims.
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June 20, 2022
Russia’s Rosneft PJSC is proceeding with its flagship Vostok Oil project in the Arctic, Chief Executive Officer Igor Sechin said, just over a week after a key partner announced it’s exiting the development over the invasion of Ukraine.
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November 2021
Different answers
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September 23, 2021
The Arctic LNG 2 is located in Gydan, Northern Russia and is one of the world's largest LNG projects under construction today with a total capacity of 3 x 6.6 million tons per annum.
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September 07, 2021
India’s top energy companies, Petronet LNG Ltd. and ONGC Videsh Ltd., are having discussions about buying a stake in Russia’s planned liquefied-gas project Arctic LNG 2 as their government seeks to secure supplies of the cleaner burning fuel.
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May 21, 2021
Ministers gathering in the Icelandic capital Reykjavik for a meeting of the Arctic Council last week weren’t due to discuss security. But the issue dominated conversations on the sidelines after Russia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov declared ahead of the summit that the Arctic “is our land and our waters.”
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November 2020
In the Arctic Circle, oil and gas interests are often a study of polar opposites. To some it looks like riches; for others, potential ruin.
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June 09, 2020
Baker Hughes announced the completion of the First Engine to Test (FETT) for the LM9000 aeroderivative gas turbine. The test took place at the company’s advanced turbomachinery testing facilities in Florence and Massa, Italy.
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March 17, 2020
Oil’s freefall amid a deepening price war and a global pandemic threatens to complicate Russian efforts to turn the Arctic into a major new energy zone.
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November 2019
Dancing on melting ice
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September 17, 2019
Qingdao McDermott Wuchuan Offshore Engineering Co. Ltd in Qingdao, China, has been awarded a contract to provide three complex modules for the Arctic LNG 2 Project in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region in Russia.
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September 05, 2019
The project will have a production capacity of 19.8 MM tons per year and is expected to export its first LNG cargo by 2023, the second and third train to start up by 2024 and 2026.
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July 23, 2019
TechnipFMC has been awarded a $7.6-billion EPC contract by Novatek and its partners for the Arctic LNG 2 project located in the Gydan peninsula in West Siberia, Russia.
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April 25, 2019
CNOOC Limited has announced that the company has signed a heads of agreement with JSC Novatek, a Russian gas producer, for the acquisition of 10% interest of the Arctic LNG 2 project.
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April 12, 2019
Nidec ASI, head of the Nidec Industrial Solutions business platform belonging to the Nidec Group, signed last month with Siemens Gas and Power , a multi-million euro contract, for the supply of Variable Frequency Drives Systems (VFDS) and Motors for the Arctic LNG 2 project which will be used as part of the Natural Gas (LNG) liquefaction plants located in the Yamal peninsula in Arctic Russia.
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April 08, 2019
About 1,500 mi from Moscow, the port of Sabetta on the Russian Arctic peninsula is the site of Russia’s most ambitious LNG project.
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March 05, 2019
Total announces that it has signed the definitive agreements with Novatek for the acquisition of a direct 10% interest in Arctic LNG 2, a major liquefied natural gas development led by Novatek on the Gydan Peninsula, Russia.
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January 14, 2019
Russia’s Novatek PJSC is looking at storing liquefied natural gas produced in the Arctic on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu so it can better meet spot demand from China and cut shipping costs.
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The Prirazlomnaya platform. The only production platform on the Russian Arctic Shelf.
September 13, 2018
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February 01, 2018
The West Hercules semisubmersible rig has been contracted for drilling two exploration wells in the Barents Sea in 2018, and options to drill another five exploration wells.
