Kirill Molodtsov: Russia Has the Tools to Go it Alone in the Arctic
Russia can continue the drilling the Kara Sea even if the US oil company ExxonMobil drops out the project, Deputy Energy Minister Kirill Molodtsov told reporters Monday reported RIA. There are enough Russian oil rigs to continue the drilling in the Kara Sea, where significant discoveries of petroleum and natural …
Polyarnaya Zvezda and Severnoye Siyaniye drilling rigs go to Kirinsky block of Sakhalin shelf
Gazprom’s semi-submersible drilling rigs Polyarnaya Zvezda (Polar Star) and Severnoye Siyaniye (Northern Lights) left today the Kholmsk Port on the Sakhalin Island and entered the Sea of Okhotsk. The Kirinsky block of the Sakhalin shelf is their destination point. Polyarnaya Zvezda is moving to the Kirinskoye field to construct production wells initiated last year. The mission of Severnoye Siyaniye is to drill an exploratory well at the Yuzhno-Kirinskoye …