MOSCOW, August 26 (Itar-Tass) — The Unique marine ice-resistant stationary oil platform Prirazlomnaya on Friday will be delivered to the Prirazlomnoye offshore oilfield in the Pechora Sea.

There have been concerns about the Prirazlomnaya platform’s safety for years, as the unit has undergone serious design modifications during its construction, that lasted more than 15 years.

Greenpeace activists scaled a frigid Russian oil platform on Friday to draw attention to the dangers of drilling for petroleum in the Arctic, warning that a spill could sully nature reserves long ...

MOSCOW (AP) — The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise departed for the Netherlands on Friday nearly a year after Russian authorities seized it during a protest against an oil platform, the Amsterdam ...

Prirazlomnaya set for shutdown Gazpromneft to halt production from Pechora Sea platform in planned summer shut-in 4 January 2017 15:38 GMT Updated 4 January 2017 15:38 GMT ...

Mikhail Ulyanov oil tanker arrives at the Prirazlomnaya platform to load Russia's first shipment of Arctic oil. April 18, 2014 (Photo courtesy Gazprom Neft) MOSCOW, Russia, April 29, 2014 (ENS ...

ARCTIC ACTION: six Greenpeace activists, including Executive Director Kumi Naidoo, spent several hours hanging off the side of a floating Russia oil platform in the Pechora Sea attached to the rig ...

PRIRAZLOMNAYA OIL PLATFORM, Russia, Sept 15 (Reuters) - G azprom Neft, the oil arm of Russian state gas company Gazprom, will stick to its production plans at its Prirazlomnaya oil field in the ...

Some activists had tried to scale the Prirazlomnaya platform operated by state-owned firm Gazprom. Russia's first offshore oil platform in the Arctic, it is expected to start production this month.

Transportation of all oil produced at Prirazlomnaya platform is performed by Sovcomflot’s shuttle tankers Mikhail Ulyanov and Kirill Lavrov, 70,000-dwt each, which makes them the largest oil ...

Russian Coast Guard officer, right, points a gun at a Greenpeace activist with raised hands, while another activist dangles on a rope from the Gazprom oil rig Prirazlomnaya, September 18, 2013 ...