On arrival to the Southern Federal District the head of the emergency Ministry Vladimir Puchkov has to change his plans urgently. Having received a message about a fire in Temryukovskiy district, where several rail tanks caught fire, the minister immediately left for the place of accident to be able to personally supervise the emergency operations. […]
On arrival to the Southern Federal District the head of the emergency Ministry Vladimir Puchkov has to change his plans urgently. Having received a message about a fire in Temryukovskiy district, where several rail tanks caught fire, the minister immediately left for the place of accident to be able to personally supervise the emergency operations. […]
Greenpeace demands to classify the Arctic Shelf around the North Pole as an international nature reserve and to introduce the ban on drilling over the whole area of the shelf. The environmentalists think that the possible benefits from shelf development are not worth running the risks that oil and gas projects bear. It should be […]
The deputy Minister for Economics and Regional Development Mikhail Bershadskiy said today in the course of the meeting of the Government of The Kraisnoyarsk Territory that in the period from January to September 2012 the Krasnoyarsk Territory demonstrated a dynamic social and economical growth. According to him, the economy of the region is positively influenced […]
The Vice Prime-Minister of Belarus Vladimir Semashko carried out another round of negotiations on oil delivery with the Russian colleagues Arkadiy Dvorkovich and Dmitriy Rogozin. This was reported at the official website of the Embassy of Belarus in Russia. It has become known that in the course of a two-day round of negotiations the vice […]
A criminal case was opened on the grounds of an offense under Part 2 of Art. 143 of the Criminal Code (violation of safety rules) on the ignition in the visbreaking section of the process unit CDU-AVT-6 in OJSC «Saratov Oil Refinery», which caused the death of a person. According to investigators, on October 4, […]
In the course of a strategic preventive action “Oil”, which was conducted in the Angarsk municipal entity, the officers of the police, FSS, the public prosecution office, the Emergency Ministry and Rostekhnadzor of the Irkutsk region discovered two surreptitious enterprises dealing with the processing of raw hydrocarbons. In the opinion of the police, the low-quality […]
Anatoliy Yanovskiy, the Deputy Minister of Energy Industry of the Russian Federation declared that from now on the Russian companies, which are planning to deliver oil to Kazakhstan, will have to provide proportional deliveries from Kazakhstan to Russia. The corresponding protocol has been signed by the Russian and Kazakhstan parties. Yanovskiy pointed out that providing […]
According to a number of experts, the EcoPechora conference, which took place on October 10-11, became a real breakthrough in the dialogue between the environmentalists and oilmen. If before that their interaction consisted mostly in the demonstrative actions on one side and the demonstrative silence on the other side, no we can talk about real […]
After 15 hours on the platform of Prirazlomnaya in the Pechora Sea, six activists of Greenpeace International, among which there was the executive director of Greenpeace International Kumi Naidoo, left the walls of the drill on their own free will. The staff of Prirazlomnaya was constantly pouring with water on the environmentalists from fire hoses, […]
