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Moscow. LUKOIL has put in operation a gas desulphurization unit at the Usinsky gas processing plant. Sour gas will be processed to products containing the allowable level of hydrogen sulphide. The new facility will make it possible to increase the utilization of associated petroleum gas from ...

Moscow. and Gazprom neft ran joint exercise "Arctic-2017" to simulate oil spill response in ice conditions in Arkhangelsk region. The exercise took place in the Barents Sea, near the Varandey fixed ice-resistant offloading terminal and Prirazlomnaya ice-resistant platform. The ...

Nizhnevartosk. Samotlorneftegaz is about to finish the winter remediation plan for 2016-2017. Due to the all-year-round operation of the Environment Remediation Division (ERD) the scope of remediated legacy lands is rising year after year. The Environmental division shifted to all-year-round ...

Moscow. LUKOIL presented its latest developments in the field of industrial and environmental safety at Oil and Gas Safety – 2017: Refining and Petrochemistry, an international forum organized with the support of the company at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The information ...

Gravenhage. Shell has begun public consultations on decommissioning the Brent oil and gas field, one of the largest in the North Sea. Before the start of consultations the company submitted a comprehensive decommissioning program to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy ...

Moscow. Transneft Siberia in 2016 performed in-line inspection of the linear portion of oil trunk pipelines (OTP), including underwater crossings, at 93 sections with the total length of 6, 074. 9 km. Inspection of the internal pipe cavity was performed using different diagnostic tools ...

Mexico. Shipping operations at one of three docks of Venezuela's main crude exporting port were halted after an oil spill occurred while loading a vessel bound for India, union and shipping sources told Reuters. The spill, which happened over the weekend at Jose port's Eastern dock ...

Moscow. November 14, 2016 in the Yetkulsky district of Chelyabinsk Oblast in close proximity to the oil trunk pipelines Ust-Balyk–Kurgan–Ufa–Almetyevsk (UBKUA) and the Nizhnevartovsk-Kurgan-Kuybyshev (NKK) ground fracturing activity took place endangering the integrity of the ...

Bismarck. The Obama administration said Sunday that it had denied a permit needed to complete the last leg of an oil pipeline across the Midwest. It is prompting cheers from opponents but warnings that the move could be short-lived since President-elect Donald Trumpsupports the project. The ...

London. Oil prices shot up more than 12 percent, smashing trading volume records, after producer club OPEC and Russia cut a deal to reduce output to drain a global supply glut. But analysts warned prices could recede as other producers stand by to fill the gap. The Organization of the ...

Oslo. Russia’s Minister of Natural Resources Sergey Donskoy and Norway’s Minister of Petroleum and Energy Tord Lien are going to meet in Oslo. They will discuss cooperation between the two countries in the sphere of oil and gas exploration, and development of cross-border hydrocarbon ...

London. Top oil companies including Saudi Aramco and Shell are joining forces to create an investment fund to develop technologies to promote renewable energy, as they seek an active role in the fight against global warming. The chief executives of seven oil and gas companies -- BP, Eni, ...

At least 117 people were arrested as a result of the police break-up of the activists’ camp set up in protest against the construction of Dakota Access Pipeline. Associated Press reported that about 200 policemen and soldiers broke up the camp set up on the developer’s plot, where ...

Moscow. All LUKOIL lubricant plants have successfully obtained the ISO 14001 Environmental management systems as well as the OHSAS 18001 international occupational health and safety management system certification. This is stated in the message LUKOIL. “Compliance with the ISO 14001 ...

Ottawa. Canadian aboriginal and environmental groups filed lawsuits on Thursday seeking to overturn government approval of a $27 billion liquefied natural gas project led by Malaysia's Petronas, that they say will hurt the environment and destroy crucial salmon habitat. The challenges, ...

Nizhnevartovsk. OJSC Rosneft’s subsidiary JSC “Samotlorneftegaz” is facilitating legacy remediation. As of 1 October 2016 the State Committee examined and accepted 1139 pieces of land with the total area of 239 hectares. According to Andrey Borisov, JSC “SNG” ...

Calgary, Canada. Climate-change activists on Tuesday disrupted the flow of millions of barrels of crude from Canada to the United States in rare, coordinated action that targeted several key pipelines simultaneously. Activists in four states were arrested after they cut padlocks and chains ...

N’Djamena, Chad. Chad’s high court has ordered an oil consortium led by Exxon Mobil Corp. to pay a fine of more than $75 billion after the country’s finance ministry accused it of not paying royalties. Exxon spokesman Todd Spitler said Thursday that Exxon disagrees with the ...