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Publish date: April 25, 2005
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The severely aged derrick will be towed to the Prirazlomnaya field, which was opened to offshore drilling in 1989, but is only now experiencing an upswing in oil production. The project has major financial problems, but Gazprom and and Rosneft hope that the endevour with the retired rig will become an important new showcase for drilling possibilities.
Prirazlomnaya has extractable reserves equalling 83 million tonnes. The oil contains a high level of sulfer and is not accepted by all buyers. Between 1989 and 1994, five exploration wells were drilled at Prirazlomnaya, four of which contained significant amounts of oil. The depth of deposits in the area is approximately 20 meters.
The field is located 60 kilometres off the coast of Varandey (Nenets AO) and 320 kilometres from the town of Naryan-Mar. The oil from the field will be exported to western Europe. Small-size tankers will ship the oil to the Belokamenka tanker in the Kola Bay, near Murmansk, where it will be reloaded and shipped further to Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.
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