Fire kills one on Russian icebreaker under construction

Yekaterina Velikaya, lead ship of a new class of Russian-built multi-purpose icebreakers, prior to being launched into the water for the first time in late 2020

Prosecutors in Russia have told local media that one person was killed while three others suffered varying degrees of injury after a fire broke out on an icebreaker that is still under construction on Monday, April 8. The 106-metre Yekaterina Velikaya was at a shipyard in Vladivostok undergoing...

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/specialised-fields/icebreaking/fire-kills-one-on-russian-icebreaker-under-construction/

COLUMN | Venezuela’s tanker woes, the Gabonese registry’s quality problems and Belarus’ bad debt [Offshore Accounts]

Sometimes you wonder whether a country that has hit rock-bottom can fall any further. In the case of Venezuela, it seems there is always worse to come. The death of the i ..

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COLUMN | Oil and gas prices spike amid war in Ukraine [Offshore Accounts]

Results season is upon us, but the horrible events in Ukraine overshadow everything. Even as the tragedy unfolding there causes human misery and destruction on a scale no ..

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Shocked BP to exit Rosneft stake as fresh anxiety set to grip financial markets

Shocked BP to exit Rosneft stake as fresh anxiety set to grip financial markets

Susannah Streeter

27 February 2022 

Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown 

‘’The decision to exit the Rosneft stake will be an eye wateringly expensive one for BP, but the shocked board clearly felt they had no option but to pay the high price and distance the business from Russia’s aggression.

It marks a huge shift in position for CEO Bernard Looney who just two weeks ago...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/02/27/shocked-bp-to-exit-rosneft-stake-as-fresh-anxiety-set-to-grip-financial-markets/

COLUMN | Quick updates: Shell’s Prelude fiasco, The Metals Company’s Siberian challenge, Chevron’s CCS problems, whilst BP and Socar face corruption claims in Azerbaijan! [Offshore Accounts]

Two weeks ago we looked at some surprises that were perhaps quite predictable (here); time for an update on developments in Australia at Prelude and Gorgon, two of the mo ..

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COLUMN | The news that wasn’t news: Siemens Gamesa and Vestas; Rosneft and BP; Aker BP and Lundin; Shell, Greenpeace and Shearwater in South Africa; Shell’s FLNG woes; container owner madness [Offshore Accounts]

This week we revisit some developments to our favourite stories, featuring all the usual suspects – crashing share prices for troubled European wind turbine players aga ..

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Η Βόρεια Θάλασσα, μια νέα παγκόσμια αρτηρία θαλάσσιων μεταφορών

Πρόσω ολοταχώς για τη μεσοπρόθεσμη επίτευξη υψηλών στόχων και κυρίως τη σταδιακή αύξηση της διά θαλάσσης μεταφοράς φορτίων από τη Σιβηρία ανακοίνωσε η Vostok Oil, θυγατρική της Rosneft. Κατά την πρόσφατη συνέντευξή του στο ρωσικό πρακτορείο ειδήσεων Tass, ο κυβερνήτης της περιφέρειας (Krai) του Krasnoyarsk στη Σιβηρία, Alexander Uss, δήλωσε ότι οι επενδύσεις της Rosneft σε έργα εξόρυξης και παραγωγής στην περιοχή θα οδηγήσουν σε ετήσιο μεταφερόμενο φορτίο κατά μήκος της διαδρομής της Βόρειας...

https://www.naftikachronika.gr/2021/01/04/i-voreia-thalassa-mia-nea-pagkosmia-artiria-thalassion-metaforon/

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