Russia
News
February 20, 2015
Gazprom Neft has made its first ever winter shipment of oil from the Novy Port (Novoportovskoye) field on the Yamal Peninsula.
News
January 16, 2015
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- Gazpromneft Sakhalin, a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft, has been awarded subsoil-use rights to two license blocks in the Russian Arctic -- the Severo-Zapadniy (North East) block, located on the Pechora Sea shelf, and the Heysovskiy block, located on the continental shelf of the Barents Sea.
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December 23, 2014
PARIS (Bloomberg) -- Total SA and its partners will use a record 16 ice-breaking tankers to smash through floes en route to and from the Arctic’s biggest LNG development. They’re still looking for a way around a freeze in U.S. financing. With 22 wells drilled, and a runway and harbor built for the $27 billion project in Russia’s Yamal Peninsula, where temperatures can reach 50 degrees below zero Celsius, Total, OAO Novatek and China National Petroleum Corp. have little choice but to push ahead.
