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	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Oil in the diet of Sakhalin whales</title>
		<link>http://www.yuzno.com/news/1342</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Environmentalists are again sounding alarm over the future of the unique population of the Western Pacific gray whales. 
This time, Exxon Neftegaz Limited (ENL), a participant in oil projects on Sakhalin, is laying a pipeline via the Piltun Bay, a key feeding area for the gray whales. 
Any negative impact on this area during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ONGC: Making waves abroad</title>
		<link>http://www.yuzno.com/news/1340</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sakhalin project in far-eastern Russia is one of OVL&#8217;s successful overseas ventures.
 THE ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL), a subsidiary whose primary business is to bid for oil and gas acreages abroad and produce hydrocarbons, is going places. According to R.S. Butola, Managing Director, OVL, the company contributes 8 million tonnes of oil and oil-equivalent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oil, gas production grows over 2 times in Sakhalin in 2007 against 2006</title>
		<link>http://www.yuzno.com/news/1339</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The production of oil and gas increased 2.5 times in Sakhalin in 2007 as against 2006. In 2007, 14.853 million tonnes of oil (6.162 million tonnes in 2006) and 6.409 billion cubic metres of gas (2.186 billion cubic metres in 2006) were produced. This was reported at a meeting of the administration of the Sakhalin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sakhalin investor Buys Gazprom Emissions</title>
		<link>http://www.yuzno.com/news/1338</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marubeni, a Japanese trading company, bought greenhouse-gas emission credits from Gazprom to capitalize on growing demand for the right to pollute air in Japan.
The transfer of the credit will be completed in December, Marubeni said Friday in a statement on its web site. Marubeni and Gazprom&#8217;s trading arm also agreed to find ways to implement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flights canceled at major Far-Eastern airport due to snow cyclone</title>
		<link>http://www.yuzno.com/news/1337</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Local]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ A snow cyclone has forced the air navigation authorities in the Russian Far East to close the airport of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the main air gateway to the insular Sakhalin region.
Cancelations and delays have affected flights bound for various parts of Russia, as well as for Japan, South Korea and China. 


In the meantime, the regional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shell urges SEC to ease rules</title>
		<link>http://www.yuzno.com/news/1336</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Royal Dutch Shell, Europe&#8217;s largest oil company, is asking US regulators to ease rules to allow the company to book oil and gas reserves from unconventional sources such as its Canadian tar sands operations.
Under US Securities and Exchange Commission rules, oil companies are only allowed to book reserves from oil and gas finds that are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nippon Oil Buys Crude From Sakhalin-1 Under Long Term Contract</title>
		<link>http://www.yuzno.com/news/1275</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Nippon Oil Corp., Japan&#8217;s largest refiner, signed a long-term contract to buy Russian oil from Sakhalin island, the first such agreement by the country&#8217;s refiners in a drive to diversify supply from the Middle East.
Nippon Oil will purchase one vessel of oil, or 720,000 barrels, every quarter from the $13-billion Sakhalin-1 project starting this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ExxonMobil, CNPC Negotiate on Sakhalin-1</title>
		<link>http://www.yuzno.com/news/1274</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Sakhalin-1 operator ExxonMobil and Chinese CNPC proceed with the talks on potential gas supplies under the project, Interfax reported with reference to Robert Olsen, who is in charge of ExxonMobil production in Europe.
The preliminary agreement on supplying gas to China was made with CNPC in 2002, the official reminded, specifying that today’s purpose is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Synterra builds satellite station in Sakhalin</title>
		<link>http://www.yuzno.com/news/1273</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Future Projects]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ The Synterra company announces to finish building a conjugate ground station in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the Sakhalin Region.
At present Synterra is represented in 83 regions of Russia. The terrestrial long distance network of the group of companies Synterra covers more than 70 regions of Russia and its total length in 60 thousand kilometers. Satellite communication lines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exxon says Sakhalin-1 gas should be exported</title>
		<link>http://www.yuzno.com/news/1272</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Exxon Mobil believes Russia should allow the U.S. oil major to export gas from its Sakhalin-1 project off Russia&#8217;s east coast because, contrary to Gazprom&#8217;s claims, the gas is not needed for the local market.
&#8220;We are currently supplying the local market and fulfilling all of the local market&#8217;s capacity needs,&#8221; Exxon&#8217;s head of oil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power supplies restored to 36 Sakhalin towns and villages</title>
		<link>http://www.yuzno.com/news/1271</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Power supplies to 36 towns and villages in the Sakhalin Region, disrupted by a powerful blizzard, has been almost fully restored by this Sunday. Electricity has not been supplied only to just a few houses in the Kholmsk and Nevelsk districts. Seven houses remain without electricity in the city of Kholmsk; their power systems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan Covets Russian Gases</title>
		<link>http://www.yuzno.com/news/1270</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Japan, in a desperate bid to fill its energy and environmental needs, is coveting resource-rich and energy-inefficient Russia&#8217;s plentiful natural gas and surplus greenhouse gas (GHG) emission credits.
Japan&#8217;s imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Sakhalin-II project off Russia&#8217;s Pacific coast are expected to start early next year. Japan also hopes to import [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zubkov urges settling Nevelsk housing certificates problems</title>
		<link>http://www.yuzno.com/news/1269</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A total of 1,850 state housing certificates have been issued for residents of the town of Nevelsk on the Sakhalin Island that was hit by a devastating earthquake on August 2, 2007, Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting on issues of elimination of the earthquake aftermath in Nevelsk chaired by Prime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosneft expects BP to retain Sakhalin-4 and Sakhalin-5 stakes</title>
		<link>http://www.yuzno.com/news/1267</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Rosneft President Sergei Bogdanchikov expects BP will retain its participation in the Sakhalin-4 and Sakhalin-5 projects.
&#8216;BP&#8217;s exit from Sakhalin-4 and Sakhalin-5 is not planned,&#8217; Bogdanchikov said. &#8216;Operations are proceeding according to the plan we determined initially, which has been amended as a result of practical work. This year we are not drilling because not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Foreign Investor for Sakhalin 3</title>
		<link>http://www.yuzno.com/news/1266</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Indian company ONGC is joining Gazprom and Rosneft as a contender for the Sakhalin 3 project. Director of the Ministry of Industry and Energy department of state energy policy Sergey Mikhailov said at the Russian-Indian business forum in New Delhi yesterday that a decision would be made soon on the sale of a [...]]]></description>
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