Russia’s environmental and technological watchdog has launched a routine probe into the Kharyaga oil field operated by France’s Total in northern Russia, the agency said on Tuesday, March 13.
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March 14, 2007Russian authorities have stepped up pressure on British-Russian oil venture TNK-BP, as the Natural Resources Ministry said it was launching checks into whether the company was fulfilling terms of use on Kovykta gas field, one of its biggest assets.
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January 19, 2007
Russia’s gas monopoly Gazprom will buy 50 percent plus one share in Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project for $7.45 billion, Shell said on Thursday.
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December 21, 2006The British lawyer who represented Greenpeace in the battle with Shell over the disposal of the Brent Spar oil platform has been hired by Russia to prepare a case against the Anglo-Dutch oil company over problems at its development project on Sakhalin Island in the country’s Far East.
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December 15, 2006The head of Russia’s environment watchdog has proposed firing his deputy, who led a recent crackdown on a vast Shell-run hydrocarbon project in Russia, a source in the federal service said Thursday, RIA Novosti agency repots.
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December 14, 2006Russia has set a deadline of February 1 for Shell’s Sakhalin-2 project to repair environmental damage or face the loss of its operating licences, the RIA Novosti news agency reported citing a Russian federal agency.
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December 13, 2006
Russian prosecutors have uncovered more than 100 violations of environmental, labor and migration law at a giant oil and liquefied natural gas project run by Royal Dutch Shell PLC on the Russian island of Sakhalin, according to an report Wednesday.
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December 6, 2006
Russia’s state oil giant Rosneft said on Thursday it had boosted ties with its long-standing partner BP by agreeing to jointly bid and develop oil and gas deposits in the Russian Arctic.
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November 30, 2006Up to 35 Russian companies will float their shares in initial public offerings in 2007, a Russian expert said Thursday.
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November 23, 2006A jury in Russia’s Far East on Friday found three men guilty of a firebomb attack that killed a coast guard general and badly injured his wife.
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November 20, 2006
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