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The Open Society “Airline Sakhalin air routes” (SAR) on November, 26th, 2007 has opened regular flight on the route “Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk - Pekin”. It is spoken about in message SAR.
Flight to Pekin is the third regular flight of the air carrier in China. Earlier regular routes to Harbin and Dalian have been opened.
Flight will be carried […]

Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom said partners in the Exxon Mobil Corp-led Sakhalin-1 project should be prepared to accept a price similar to discounted, domestic levels for their gas.
Exxon wants to export gas from Sakhalin-1, offshore east Russia, to lucrative international markets.
But Gazprom wants to block this, saying the gas is needed for the domestic […]

Sakhalin Energy Investment Co Ltd, the developer of the 20 bln usd Sakhalin-2 gas project in Russia, said operation of some of the key facilities was suspended due to bad weather.
The Vityaz offshore facility in the north-east of the island and the Okha floating vessel were shut due to ’severe weather conditions,’ Sakhalin Energy said […]

In the central square of this once-isolated Russian outpost, Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin’s statue is now framed by giant TV advertising screens.
Japanese SUVs stream past restaurants offering European, Indian or Japanese cuisine, packed with diners on weekend nights despite big city prices. Schoolchildren snap pictures of each other on late-model camera phones.
Sakhalin Island, off […]

OAO Gazprom’s Sakhalin-2 offshore project won’t resume production this year after it was damaged by weather, project operator Sakhalin Energy said.
“Evidently the platform won’t be producing any more this year,” Sakhalin Energy spokesman Ivan Chernyakhovsky said in a Moscow phone interview today.
It isn’t possible to estimate how much production will be lost, Chernyakhovsky said, as […]

Petroleum minister Murli Deora will pitch for ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) getting a stake in the giant Sakhalin-III oil and gas project in far-east Russia when he visits Moscow next week.
“He is leaving for a two-day visit to Moscow on November 25 and of course, on agenda is getting Indian companies a stake in future […]