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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 ban on heavy fuel oil in the Arctic come into effect
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Russia might restart the Ukrainian nuclear plant it seized, our new report shows
The following op-ed, written by Bellona’s Charles Digges, originally appeared in The Moscow Times. In recent months, the Russian nuclear in...