Tag: Northern Sea Route

Russian LNG tanker takes on Arctic s Northern Sea Route

Preparing for LNG on Northern Sea Route

Arctic Sea Route to Open Next Year

Piloting vessels in Northern Sea Route

Slow start on the Northern Sea Route

Shipping developers eye up route through melting Arctic

Providing safe passage through the Northern Sea Route

Leading Russian expert maintains New Russian oil platforms are not up for the task and shipping along the Northern Sea Route poses a great risk to Arctic nature, a leading Russian expert maintains.Talking at the international conference on Logistics in the Arctic, recently held in Murmansk, Mikhail Grigoriev claimed that new platforms built for operations in the Russian Arctic are insufficently well built.According to Grigoriev, an expert working for the science unit under the Russian Security Council, the two platforms built for the Shtokman project - the "Severnoye Siyanie" and the "Polyarnaya Zvezda", alone have about 700 flaws registered. The rigs, which formally were taken over by Gazprom-subsidiary Gazflot in 2011, are now based in the Far East. "When and how the flaws are to be eliminated, is incomprehensible," Rossiiskaya Gazeta quotes Grigoriev as saying. He believes the situation with the rigs is made more complicated with the continued postponments of the Shtokman project.Reportedly, Gazprom is now looking for a buyer for Gazflot and might hand over its ambitious vessel and rig development program to other companies.Grigoriev also voices concern about the quickly growing shipping along the Northern Sea Route. If an oil spill takes place half-way on the route, ...

More than 1,5 million tons of goods will be shipped along the NSR More than 1,5 million tons of goods will be shipped along the Northern Sea Route in 2012, regional authorities in Murmansk say.While a total of 820,000 tons of goods was shipped along the Northern Sea Route in 2011, the volumes are expected to almost double in 2012, regional minister of Property Relations Yuri Chuykov said at theKirkenes Conference.In his presentation at the conference, Minister Chuykov underlined the key importance of the Northern Sea Route. While the goods volumes on the route in 2010 was only 111,000 tons, the volumes will in 2012 increase to more than 1,5 million tons, Chuykov said.In 2011, the number of vessels using the route in 2011 amounted to 34.Several regional industrial initiatives in Murmansk will benefit from the improved shipping conditions on the route. According to Chuykov, the project preparation of the railway line to the western shore of the Kola Bay as well as the planned oil and coal terminals in the area are about to be be completed.The first objects to be built on the western side of the bay are the new coal terminal, the oil terminal, as well ...

In the very near future we will conduct test sailing with LNG on the Northern Sea Route In the very near future we will conduct test sailing with LNG on the Northern Sea Route, Gazprom says.The shipping operations will be conducted together with Sovcomflot, Gazprom informs in a press release.In a meeting between Gazprom leader Aleksei Miller and Sovcomflot´s General Director Sergei Frank on Thursday, the two companies concluded that "the relevance of LNG shipping along the Northern Sea Route to the Asian-Pacific region in growing quickly"."With regard to gas exports to the region, the development of LNG production is an absolute priority in comparison with pipeline deliveries," Miller stressed. "Consequently, the deliveries of Russian LNG through the Northern Sea Route allows us to significantly reduce transportation costs, thus making the LNG highly competitive, he added.As previously reported, Gazprom is considering to export LNG from the Shtokman project to Japan. Also other companies are exploring the possibilities to ship LNG through the Northern Sea Route to the growing Asian markets, among them Statoil.Gazprom and Sovcomflot already have an extensive cooperation in the Arctic. In June 2011, the companies signed an agreement on Gazprom´s leasing of two new Arctic LNG carriers ...