Russia
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June 01, 2017
Gazprom Neft has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the State Marine Technical University of St. Petersburg. The document is to support their joint development of domestic technologies to develop the Russian Continental Shelf.
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April 25, 2017
The first-ever, multi-hole “fishbone” well involving multiple horizontal branches has been drilled and commissioned at the Prirazlomnaya offshore rig — the only project on the Russian Arctic shelf at which commercial oil production is currently ongoing.
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March 29, 2017
LUKOIL has developed a new technique to respond to oil spills in the Arctic waters.
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March 29, 2017
Russia can wait for a sustained recovery in oil prices before drilling again in Arctic waters, relying for now on less costly regions even as rival producer Norway accelerates development of its northerly fields.
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January 30, 2017
Gazprom Neft has met its annual production targets at the Prirazlomnaya offshore platform, with a total 2,154,000 tonnes of ARCO (Arctic Oil) being produced at the field in 2016—a more than 2.5-fold increase on 2015 volumes.
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August 11, 2016
Gazpromneft Shelf, a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft, has brought two additional production wells (its third and fourth) into production at Prirazlomnoye field.
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May 31, 2016
A formal ceremony marking the first year-round shipment of Yamal oil via the Arctic Gates oil-loading terminal took place last week at the Cape Kamenny settlement in Russia's Yamal Peninsula.
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March 23, 2016
March saw the 10-millionth barrel of oil produced at Prirazlomnoye oil field—located on the Russian Arctic Shelf in the Pechora Sea and currently under development by Gazpromneft Shelf.
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March 17, 2016
A revised production schedule for Gazprom Neft’s Prirazlomnoye field has seen the field’s peak production period increased from three years to five.
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December 01, 2015
The millionth tonne of oil has been produced at Prirazlomnoye field, Gazprom Neft, the field’s operator, said. Part of a consignment dispatched on the Mikhail Ulyanov tanker, it will be delivered to customers in North West Europe in early December.
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October 07, 2015
A re-injection well has been brought into operation on the Prirazlomnaya ice-resistant offshore platform, following drilling operations by Russia’s Gazprom Burenie, Gazprom Neft announced Tuesday.
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August 21, 2015
Gazprom Neft has brought its second well into production at Prirazlomnoye field, with output totaling 1,800 tonnes per day.
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July 02, 2015
Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has entered into two new data licensing agreements for the provision of 3D EM data from EMGS' multi-client data library in the Barents Sea.
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May 26, 2015
Kongsberg Maritime has been awarded a call-off order for delivery of the Safety and Automation System (SAS), Life Cycle Simulator and SAS Information Management System for the four platforms on the Johan Sverdrup field centre in Norway.
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May 21, 2015
Statoil has completed its investigation into a leak on Gudrun platform.
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May 13, 2015
CGG has announced a western extension of the Horda BroadSeis-BroadSource 3D multi-client program that it began acquiring in the Northern North Sea, offshore Norway, in 2014.
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May 08, 2015
Plexus Holdings has secured an additional purchase order with Maersk Oil's Danish business unit to supply its wellhead system and mudline services for a well in the Danish sector of the North Sea.
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April 17, 2015
The Kirill Lavrov tanker has delivered a new batch of ARCO Arctic oil to Europe in its sixth shipment of oil, Gazprom Neft announced Friday. More than 2.9 MMbbl of oil have been extracted from Prirazlomnoye oil field since production began.
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March 26, 2015
Electromagnetic Geoservices has entered into two new data licensing agreements with two oil companies for the provision of 3D EM data from EMGS's multi-client data library in the Barents Sea.
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February 20, 2015
Gazprom Neft has made its first ever winter shipment of oil from the Novy Port (Novoportovskoye) field on the Yamal Peninsula.


