Monthly Highlights from the Russian Arctic, July 2024
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Lukoil considers floating oil terminal location in Murmansk region
Publish date: March 21, 2006
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Lukoil considers floating oil terminal location in Murmansk region
Russian oil major Lukoil considers to station a floating oil terminal in Liinahamari in the Pechenga Bay, just few kilometers from the border to Norway.
According to press secretary of Murmansk regional administration, Nikolay Sigin, Lukoil is offered space for oil reloading in the Pechenga Bay instead of the Kola Bay in order to ease pressure around Murmansk. Several terminal facilities for oil reloading have been established in the Kola Bay the last years, and several more are under planning, BarentsObserver reported. Rosneft already operates the 320,000 ton floating terminal tanker "Belokamenka", which is located just outside Murmansk.
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UN raises alarm as Ukrainian counterattack stalks Russia’s Kursk nuclear plant
UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi on Tuesday warned during a visit to Russia's Kursk nuclear plant that its proximity to ongoing fighting was "extremely serious" following Ukraine's cross-border offensive into the southwestern Kursk region earlier this month.
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