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State controlled Russian oil giant OAO Rosneft has taken a controlling stake in a joint venture with China’s Sinopec to pump oil from the seabed around the Pacific island of Sakhalin.
Rosneft said in a statement posted on its Web site that the two companies signed an agreement on Monday that will see Rosneft’s share in […]

A Russian environmental regulator will not go to court and seek compensation for the environmental damage from the operator of the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project, a top official with the regulator said Thursday, ITAR-TASS reported.
The operator, Sakhalin Energy, is prepared to remedy the damage, said Oleg Mitvol, a deputy director with the Federal Service […]

Russia’s environmental watchdog launched a probe Wednesday into alleged environmental violations at the Sakhalin I hydrocarbon project off Russia’s Pacific Coast, which is run by U.S. giant ExxonMobil, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported on Wednesday quoting a deputy head of the Rosprirodnadzor agency.
Oleg Mitvol said the Federal Agency for the Oversight of Natural Resources would […]

HC Privod (Permsky region, Russia) settled a contract with Aviadvigatel on the delivery of three turbogenerators for Sakhalin Energy, the company informed.
Within this project three turbogenerators of the 4 MW capacity will be delivered to work in the pump agregates used for the liquified hydrocarbons shipment from the Lunskoe field to the terminal.

Coastguard ships of the Sakhalin border department carried out a large-scale inspection of fishing boats, operating in the seas of Japan and Okhotsk, the press service of the borderguards told Itar-Tass on Sunday.
They detained the Langeri trawler (Nevelsk, port of registration) in the Tatar Strait, north of the Sea of Japan. An inspection group found […]

An An-12 plane from Seoul has made an emergency landing on Sakhalin Island. During the flight the plane reported failure to lower nose landing-gear leg, an announcement made by the Far Eastern regional center of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies said.
The plane circled overhead above the destination airport of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, where rescuers were summoned, until […]