Rosneft To Conduct Marine Monitoring in the Northern Sea Route
OAO NK Rosneft will conduct marine fauna monitoring in the Northern Sea Route in 2014. The studies will be organized by the Arctic Research Center, a joint venture of Rosneft and ExxonMobil. The objective of the said studies is collection of data on marine fauna in Rosneft License Areas with …
Arctic Research and Design Center To fund Polar Bear Study
The Arctic Research and Design Center (the Rosneft and ExxonMobil JV) and the public organization called The Marine Mammals Council have entered in a research-and-development contract for staging polar bear studies in the areas of potential hydrocarbon development projects. Rosneft pays particular attention to preserving and protecting the polar ecosystems. …
Rosneft and ExxonMobil Have Installed Unique Berkut Platform on Sakhalin Shelf
Rosneft and ExxonMobil, within the framework of the Sakhalin-1 Consortium, have finished transport operation on transportation and installation of a unique sea drilling platform Berkut, which has the biggest upper part in the world at Arkutun-Dagi on North East shelf of Sakhalin Island. The adjustment works will be finished in …
The Kara-Winter-2014 Ice Expedition Has Finished Field Studies in the Arctic Ocean
The Kara-Winter-2014 Ice Expedition organized by the Arctic Research and Design Center (a joint venture of Rosneft and ExxonMobil) with expert support from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute Federal State Budget Institution was successfully finished. It has become the largest expedition in the Arctic Ocean since the USSR collapse. …
NADL – Seadrill and North Atlantic Drilling Announce Investment and Co-operation Agreement with Rosneft to Partner in the Russian Market
North Atlantic Drilling Ltd. (“NADL” or the “Company”) and Seadrill Limited (“Seadrill”) are pleased to announce that an Investment and Co-operation Agreement has been executed with Rosneft in order to pursue growth opportunities offshore and onshore in the Russian market through at least 2022. As part of these proposed opportunities, …
Rosneft and ExxonMobil Extended Agreement on Implementation of the Far East LNG Project
Rosneft President, Chairman of the Management Board Igor Sechin and President of ExxonMobil Development Neil Duffin signed an agreement to extend the existing Strategic Agreement on implementation of the Far East LNG project. Work to progress engineering surveys on land and sea are scheduled for summer of 2014. At this …
Tight Oil Developments in Russia: Part 2
James Henderson The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies Click here to read part 1 3. Corporate Activity in Russia’s Tight Oil Reservoirs Rosneft As befits Russia’s National Oil Company, Rosneft has taken the leading role in the development of the country’s tight oil reserves, in particular since the announcement of …
The Kara-Winter-2014 Ice Expedition Has Started Field Studies in the Artic Zone
The Kara-Winter-2014 Expedition organized by the Arctic Research and Design Center (a joint venture of Rosneft and ExxonMobil) with expert support from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute Federal State Budget Institution left the Port of Murmansk on board the Yamal Ice-Breaker. This is going to be the largest ice …
Rosneft Starts Geophysical Surveys in Eastern Arctic
Aerial gravity-magnetic surveys began at the Yuzhno-Chukotsky License Area in the Eastern Arctic to establish the field’s subsurface structure. Rosneft and ExxonMobil have agreed to a framework for jointly exploring six license areas in the Chukchi and the Laptev Seas, namely the Ust-Lensky, Ust-Oleneksky, Anisinsko-Novosibirsky, Yuzhno-Chukotsky, and Severo-Vrangelevsky 1 and …
Tight Oil Developments in Russia
James Henderson : The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies Part 1, click here to read part 2 Introduction Production of unconventional oil has transformed the US energy landscape, creating the potential for that country to reduce its reliance on oil imports and to contribute to the possibility of North America’s …