Russia's Rosneft reaps rewards from higher oil prices

Russian oil company Rosneft said Monday its revenue increased more than 20 percent from last year, even as its production levels declined.

Gazprom ready to cover growing gas demand in Europe

Gazprom is ready to meet Europe’s growing gas demand, including for the United Kingdom, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Russian gas holding Alexander Medvedev told reporters on Wednesday.

Russia claims new oil field discovered in the Arctic

Preliminary data indicate a new oil field has been discovered in an area said to hold at least a dozen promising reservoirs, Russian oil company Rosneft said.

Siberian experts developing new 3D seismic survey methods to locate Arctic hydrocarbons

Researchers from the Institute of the Novosibirsk-based Institute of Oil and Gas Geology and Geophysics together with the Krasnoyarsk subsidiary of Russian oil giant, Rosneft, are creating new methods of 3D seismic survey to search for oil and gas fields in the Arctic.

Pipeline gas exports by independent producers not under debate. - Alexander Novak, Russian energy minister

The issue of granting access to Russian pipeline gas exports to independent producers is not under debate now, the country’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak said Tuesday.

Russia to supply India with 10 million tons of oil

Russia will supply 10 million tons of oil annually to India for the next decade, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said, with the mutual deals between the two countries also extending to nuclear power generation.

Rosneft and ExxonMobil Win Three Areas in Mozambique

Rosneft subsidiary RN-Exploration and ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Mozambique Offshore Ltd. will discuss the details of their participation in gas and oil exploration in three areas in Mozambique with the country's government.

Rosneft, Novatek, Gazprom to invest trillions of rubles in Russia's Yamal

Russian oil and gas majors Rosneft, Novatek and Gazprom plan to invest several trillions of rubles in the economy of Russia’s Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District within the nearest several years, the region’s governor Dmitry Kobylkyn said on Thursday.

La société Rosneft va effectuer le forage dans la mer de Kara de façon indépendante

La compagnie russe Rosneft va continuer d’effectuer le forage dans la mer de Kara de façon indépendante, a déclaré son PDG, Igor Setchine.

Setchine a souligné qu’une meilleure plate-forme résistante aux glaces participerait à ce travail.

Le PDG de Rosneft n'a pas exclu la possibilité d'une coopération avec la société Gazprom.

Rosneft Capable of Arctic Drilling Without ExxonMobil. (The East Prinovozemelsky blocks in the Kara Sea)

SOCHI, September 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russian oil giant Rosneft and US oil company ExxonMobil continue the drilling in the Kara Sea, however, the Russian company was prepared to continue work independently should plans have changed, Rosneft Vice President Larisa Kalanda said at the International Investment Forum Sochi 2014.
"The work at the Universitetskaya field is going in accordance to plans. We are satisfied with the decision from the American regulator that has authorized [Exxon's participation]… In the case that the regulator had not authorized Exxon to work at the field, Rosneft had its own plan and was ready to continue work on its own," Kalanda said.

ExxonMobil receives US government agreement to continue Arctic work with Rosneft. Obama administration granted a brief extension

Previously, sources told Bloomberg that ExxonMobil and Rosneft had halted drilling wells on the Arctic shelf....

American ExxonMobil has confirmed receiving the U.S. government’s permission to continue Arctic drilling works together its partner Rosneft which the company was supposed to stop because of U.S. and European sanctions imposed to punish Russia for escalating tensions in Ukraine, the Bloomberg news agency reported with reference to the company’s statement.

Exxon Starts "Most Controversial Oil Rig in the World”

For the oil industry, business comes first. After years of preparation, on Saturday ExxonMobil began drilling a $700 million well in the Kara Sea in Russia’s Arctic. It is Russia’s most northerly well.

In doing so, the oil giant has ignored growing concerns over Russia’s role in the Ukrainian conflict, and the sanctions imposed on its business partner, Rosneft, which is run by a close associate of Putin, Igor Sechin, who is also personally blacklisted.

Rosneft to study Arctic’s fauna to protect it during oil exploration

Russia’s largest oil producer Rosneft will monitor marine fauna in the Northern Sea Route in 2014 in a bid to preserve marine life during oil exploration, the company’s press release says.

“The objective of the said studies is collection of data on marine fauna in Rosneft License Areas with a view to building a complete and detailed picture of the baseline environment state and developing a set of environmental controls to be applied during hydrocarbons exploration and production,” Rosneft said in a press release released Wednesday.

Rosneft and ExxonMobil approve 4 Arctic projects

Rosneft, one of the world’s largest oil companies, has given the go ahead on four Arctic projects with US oil giant ExxonMobil, despite the US government’s attempt to derail business relations with sanctions.
The two companies will develop hydrocarbon reserves in the Arctic waters of Russia, including the Laptev and Chukchi Seas, Rosneft said in a statement Monday.
The projects will explore and develop four licensed oil-rich reservoirs: the Anisinsk-Novosibirsk and Ust-Olenksk shelf sites in the Laptev Sea zone, as well as the North-Wrangel-2 and South-Chukchi shelf reserves, the statement said. No financial details were provided.

Απελευθερώνονται οι Εξαγωγές LNG στη Ρωσία με Απόφαση Πούτιν

Ο Πρόεδρος της Ρωσίας, Βλάντιμιρ Πούτιν, υπέγραψε νόμο με τον οποίο απελευθερώνονται οι εξαγωγές υγροποιημένου φυσικού αερίου (LNG), δίνοντας δικαίωμα αδειοδότησης και σε άλλες εταιρείες, πέραν της Gazprom.
Όπως μεταδίδει το ρωσικό πρακτορείο ειδήσεων ITAR-TASS, η νομοθεσία ψηφίστηκε από τη Δούμα στις 22 Νοεμβρίου και επικυρώθηκε από την Άνω Βουλή λίγο αργότερα, στις 27 Νοεμβρίου.

Ο νόμος που υπογράφηκε από τον Πρόεδρο Πούτιν στις 30 Νοεμβρίου και δημοσιοποιείται τη Δευτέρα στον επίσημο ιστοτόπο, έχει ημερομηνία έναρξης ισχύος την 1η Δεκεμβρίου.

Greenpeace Protests in Moscow As Arctic Sunrise Tribunal Opens.

MOSCOW/HAMBURG, November 6 (RIA Novosti) – As an international tribunal got underway Wednesday in Hamburg over Greenpeace activists imprisoned in Russia, the environmental organization launched boats along the Moscow River in protest over Russia’s boycott of the hearing.
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea opened its hearing at 13:00 Moscow time (9:00 GMT) into the Arctic Sunrise icebreaker and its multinational crew, who were arrested after staging a protest near a Russian oil platform in the Arctic in September. The case against Russia was brought to the tribunal by the Netherlands, under whose flag the Arctic Sunrise was sailing.

Greenpeace Ship Sails to Arctic Kara Sea Despite Ban

Photo: The Arctic Sunrise - ©  Greenpeace

MOSCOW, August 24 (RIA Novosti) – A Greenpeace ship that Russia prohibited from entering the Northern Sea Route has ignored the ban to protest state oil company Rosneft’s operations in the Arctic, the environmental group said Saturday.
The Arctic Sunrise entered the Kara Sea on Friday and is heading toward several exploration vessels operating for Rosneft and its US-based partner ExxonMobil at the East-Prinovozemelsky oil field, the group said in a statement.
The Greenpeace ship is determined to stage peaceful protests against the Russian state firm as well as the government’s sanctioning of oil exploration in Arctic national parks and wildlife reserves, where 1.2 million square kilometers of previously protected territories have been opened for oil drilling, the group said.

Greenpeace Ship ‘Banned’ From Arctic Route

Photo: The Arctic Sunrise - ©  Greenpeace

MOSCOW, August 21 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian administration controlling use of an Arctic sea route banned a Greenpeace ice-breaker in the region to protest Russian oil exploration in the area from traversing the route, the environmental group claimed Wednesday.
The Northern Sea Route Administration cited Greenpeace’s failure to provide information about the Arctic Sunrise's ice belt, which protects the vessel when it moves through pack-ice. The refusal letter, dated August 18, is available on the administration’s website.

Russia, Azerbaijan Agree on Oil, Gas JV as Putin Visits Baku.

MOSCOW, August 13 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian and Azerbaijani state oil companies on Tuesday agreed to establish a joint venture on a parity basis to prospect and produce oil and gas in Russia and Azerbaijan and in other countries as Russian President Vladimir Putin paid a one-day working visit to Baku.
Energy Cooperation During Putin’s visit – designed to discuss a wide range of bilateral issues, including trade, energy, transportation and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict – Rosneft reported that it had also agreed with the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) to jointly use some pipelines and terminals to optimize supplies to consumers.

Ρεκόρ εξόρυξης πετρελαίου από τη Ρωσία . Ωστόσο, οι εκπρόσωποι των πετρελαϊκών εταιρειών αποφεύγουν να σχολιάσουν τη δυναμική της παραγωγής

Η Ρωσία σημείωσε ρεκόρ εξόρυξης πετρελαίου τα τελευταία 25 χρόνια, καθώς η  παραγωγή πετρελαίου τον Ιούνιο έφθασε στα 10.530.000 βαρέλια/ ανά ημέρα, σύμφωνα με τα δεδομένα του CDU TEK.

Το ρεκόρ αυτό οφείλεται σε δύο βασικούς παράγοντες, αναφέρει ο αναλυτής πετρελαίου και αερίου της JPMorgan, Whoppers Andrew.
 Πρώτον, στην  αύξηση της παραγωγής της Rosneft από τα κοιτάσματα πετρελαίου του Βανκόρ. Πέρυσι,  η παραγωγή πετρελαίου από την εκμετάλλευση των κοιτασμάτων  έφτασε τους  18,3 εκατ. τόνους,  ενώ η εταιρεία  σχεδιάζει να θέσει στόχο  για 25 εκατομμύρια τόνους για το τρέχον έτος.