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Publish date: October 13, 2005
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Transportation will start by the end of 2007 or the beginning of 2008. Sovkomflot plans to transport 6.5 million tonnes of oil annually and has ordered two ice-class tankers each with a deadweight of 70,000 tonnes from the Admiralteisky Shipyard in St. Petersburg. The tankers will be equipped with a so-called “azipod” system, which involves two screws operating from a 17.5 MW electro-diesel installation. Each tanker can operate in ice cover up to1.2 metres thick ice, Interfax news agency reported.
According to Sovkomflots marketing group head, Dmitry Rusanov, oil transportation from Prirazlomnoye field will be implemented in two steps. Shuttle tankers will transport oil to a storage tanker or terminal.
Most probably it will be Belokamenka terminal, owned by Rosneft and located the in Murmansk region, he said. Then, ocean-class tankers will transport oil from the terminal to consumers. The USA is slated to be the main consumer of oil from the Prirazlonmoye field.
The United States is counting on this oil very much, said Rusanov.
Sevmoeneftegaz―a subsidiary of Russias state-owned gas giant Gazprom―is developing the Prirazlomnoye field in terms of a product sharing agreement.
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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