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Daltransgaz’s BOD recommended the shareholders not to pay dividends for 2006, said in the company’s announcement.
During the meeting the shareholders will approve annual report, year-end financial statements, choose an auditor, BOD members and revision committee, distribute the profit.
Daltransgaz was founded in 2000 to realize the project of Sakhalin gas deliveries to the Far East. The […]

Exxon Mobil Corporation announced today that its subsidiary, Exxon Neftegas Limited (ENL), has completed drilling of the Z-11 well, the longest measured depth extended-reach drilling (ERD) well in the world. Located on Sakhalin Island offshore Eastern Russia, the record-setting Z-11 achieved a total measured depth of 37,016 feet (11,282 meters) or over seven miles.
The multiphase […]

Two foreign transgressor vessels have been detained in Russia’s territorial waters near the Sakhalin Island during a special border operation under the codename Typhoon-2007. The Bonsei Maru schooner flying the Belize flag intruded Russian territorial waters in the La Perouse Strait separating Sakhalin from the Japanese Hokkaido Island on Tuesday. The schooner was detained and […]

Two earthquakes have occurred on the Sakhalin Island and Kuriles over the past 24 hours. According to the Far East regional centre of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, earth tremors were registered in the Smirnykhovsky district (central part of Sakhalin) late on Monday. The quake measured 4.6 points on the Richter scale. Its epicentre […]

The most powerful icebreakers Krasin and Admiral Makarov of the Far Eastern shipping compnay (FESC) have completed the first winter season of the pilotage of huge tankers across the ice of Tatar Strait (the northern area of the Sea of Japan) to the port of De-Kastri, Khabarovsk Territory.
Oil produced under the Sakhalin-1 project on shelf […]

The aircraft DHC-8 of Sakhalin Airlines made forced landing at the airport of Okha (Sakhalin) because of the engine fault.
The plane had been flying the charter flight Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk - Bogorodskoye (Khabarovsk krai). There were 4 crew members aboard.