- 18:19 20/03/2007
Sakhalin Energy that operates the Sakhalin II oil and gas project off Russia's Pacific Coast has submitted a plan of measures to remedy environmental damage caused by the project, the natural resources ministry said Tuesday. 
- 20:55 28/02/2007
Gazprom's board of directors approved Wednesday the purchase of a majority stake in a major oil and gas project in Russia's Far East, the energy giant said in a statement.
- 20:16 26/12/2006
- 21:46 21/12/2006
Gazprom [RTS: GAZP] has purchased 50% plus one share of Sakhalin Energy, the project operator of the major Sakhalin II oil and gas project off Russia's Pacific Coast, for $7.45 billion, the Russian energy giant's CEO said Thursday.
- 20:29 21/12/2006
Gazprom [RTS: GAZP] has purchased 50% plus one share of Sakhalin Energy, the project operator of the major Sakhalin II oil and gas project off Russia's Pacific Coast, for $7.45 billion, the Russian energy giant's CEO said Thursday.
- 17:28 21/12/2006
Shareholders of Shell-controlled Sakhalin Energy, the operator of Sakhalin II, have arrived in Moscow to finalize negotiations on Russian energy giant Gazprom's participation in the vast energy project in the country's Far East, an energy source said Thursday
- 15:49 15/12/2006
- 20:23 14/12/2006
Russia's natural resources minister said Thursday he was satisfied with the work of the outspoken deputy head of Russia's environment watchdog, whose boss is seeking his dismissal.
- 19:08 13/12/2006
Measures by Russian regulators are disrupting work on the vast Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia's Far East, the project operator said Wednesday.
- 15:05 13/12/2006
Measures by Russian regulators are disrupting work on the vast Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia's Far East, the project operator said Wednesday.
- 14:39 13/12/2006
- 13:12 13/12/2006
Russia's energy minister confirmed Wednesday that state-run energy giant Gazprom [RTS: GAZP] is in talks on possible involvement in the Shell-led $22-billion Sakhalin II energy project in Russia's Far East.
- 20:34 12/12/2006
Gazprom [RTS: GAZP] is interested in joining the Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia's Far East, but not at any price, the first Russian deputy prime minister said Tuesday.
- 18:58 12/12/2006
Gazprom [RTS: GAZP] will face the same requirements as other investors should it join the oil and gas project Sakhalin-II in Russia's Far East, the Russian industry and energy minister said Tuesday.
- 17:11 12/12/2006
Russia will not agree to the Sakhalin II energy project operator's doubling of its cost estimate to $22 billion, the energy minister said Tuesday.
- 14:26 12/12/2006
Court proceedings on compensation for environmental damage inflicted by the Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia's Far East are likely to start in March 2007, the environmental watchdog said Tuesday.
- 19:51 06/12/2006
At least 100 violations of the environmental, migration and labor laws have been discovered in the Sakhalin-II energy project, local prosecutors said Wednesday.
- 17:13 05/12/2006
The Prosecutor General's Office said Tuesday it will press criminal charges over the Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia's Far East.
- 16:33 29/11/2006
- 16:23 21/11/2006
The Natural Recourses Ministry said Tuesday that Russia should claim compensation, through an international arbitration court, for environmental damage and lost profits caused by violations in the Shell-led Sakhalin II oil and gas project in the country's Far East.
- 21:15 14/11/2006
The Russian environmental watchdog suggested Tuesday revoking water use licenses from the international consortium operating the Sakhalin II oil and gas project, off Russia's Pacific coast.
- 17:18 13/11/2006
Russia's Natural Resources Ministry said Monday it is dissatisfied with the environmental measures taken so far by the operator of the Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia's Far East.
- 18:54 10/11/2006
Contractors in the Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia's Far East have paid the first two tranches, worth over eight million rubles ($300,000), in compensation for damage inflicted on forests, the environmental watchdog said Friday.
- 13:34 01/11/2006
Sakhalin Energy, the Shell-controlled operator of the Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia's Far East, has one more week to rectify environmental violations, Russia's natural resources minister said Wednesday.
- 17:45 27/10/2006
The Shell-led Sakhalin II hydrocarbon project in Russia's Far East could be suspended in some sections, Russia's natural resources minister said Friday.
- 13:33 27/10/2006
The Prosecutor General's Office may launch a criminal case against the Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia's Far East once the Ministry of Natural Resources submits a report on the environmental damage caused by the project, a spokeswoman for the country's top prosecution body said Friday.
- 16:53 25/10/2006
Russia's natural resources minister on Wednesday gave the country's environmental watchdog another month to complete its inquiry into alleged violations in implementing the Shell-led Sakhalin II energy project while the project operator admitted to damaging the eco-system of the country's largest island, off the Pacific coast.
- 20:36 24/10/2006
A Russian deputy prime minister said Tuesday that existing production-sharing agreements should not be reviewed.
- 19:31 24/10/2006
Russia's natural resources minister said Tuesday the agency for mineral resources and oil and gas companies will be given six months to update licensing agreements.
- 18:46 24/10/2006
Russia's environmental protection agencies are failing to fulfill their responsibilities to enforce environmental legislation, the first deputy prosecutor general said Tuesday.
- 14:22 24/10/2006
Shell does not intend to sell its stake in Sakhalin Energy, the operator of the Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia's Far East, the head of Shell Russia said Tuesday.
- 20:21 20/10/2006
A new expert review that envisions increased spending on the giant Sakhalin II project will be ready by December, a deputy Russian industry and energy minister said Friday.
- 15:34 20/10/2006
The giant Sakhalin II oil and gas project on Russia's largest Far East island is becoming less effective for Russia, and raises doubt over product sharing agreements in the country, a member of parliament's upper house said Friday.
- 13:03 20/10/2006
Sakhalin Energy, the operator of the Sakhalin II oil and gas project on Russia's largest Far East island, said in a letter to the Natural Resources Ministry that it would submit a detailed plan next week on rectifying environmental violations.
- 22:33 17/10/2006
Pressure on oil major Royal Dutch Shell over a vast oil and gas project in Russia's Far East, which has come under attack over environmental destruction allegations, seemed to lift Tuesday.
- 21:10 17/10/2006
Changes in the composition of the participants in the controversial Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia's Far East are dictated purely by corporate interests, Russia's industry and energy minister said Tuesday.
- 19:14 17/10/2006
The Sakhalin prosecutor's office for environmental protection has summoned the acting head of the local environmental agency for questioning, the Russian Natural Resources Ministry said Tuesday.
- 15:36 17/10/2006
- 15:27 17/10/2006
- 20:05 16/10/2006
Billions of dollars will be needed to alleviate the environmental impact in the Aniva Bay caused by the vast Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia's Far East, an environmental watchdog official said Monday.
- 13:31 16/10/2006
Russia's natural resources minister said Monday he did not rule out imposing major sanctions against the operator of the vast Sakhalin II oil and gas project in the country's Far East, due to environmental violations.
- 19:28 13/10/2006
Russia's environmental watchdog said Friday the entire ecological damage from the Sakhalin II oil and gas project in the country's Far East will be evaluated in late summer 2007.
- 18:50 12/10/2006
Russia's natural resources minister will head a delegation on October 24-26 to examine the results of environmental inspections into the Sakhalin II oil and gas project in the country's Far East.
- 20:00 06/10/2006
- 17:35 05/10/2006
Russia's environmental watchdog has submitted details to prosecutors on illegal deforestation being carried out through the Sakhalin II oil and gas project in the country's Far East, the Natural Resources Ministry said Thursday.
- 18:34 04/10/2006
- 14:15 30/09/2006
Environmentalists accuse Sakhalin Energy of using barbaric oil production methods.
- 11:36 29/09/2006
A stretch of a pipeline in the Sakhalin II energy project has been illegally laid through the territory of a national preserve, Russia's environmental watchdog said Friday.
- 16:34 28/09/2006
A deputy head of Russia's environmental watchdog said Thursday that pipeline construction under the massive Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia's Far East must be stopped.
- 17:50 27/09/2006
A meeting between Russia's president and the natural resources minister made no mentioning of the massive Sakhalin-II energy project, which has been suspended over environmental concerns.
- 16:58 27/09/2006
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he wants the government to take a tougher line toward mining companies that violate their licensing agreements.
- 13:26 27/09/2006
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday that inspections of the $20 billion Sakhalin II energy project off Russia's Pacific coast do not necessarily mean the revocation of licenses under a production-sharing agreement (PSA).
- 13:24 27/09/2006
- 09:53 27/09/2006
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday that inspections of the $20 billion Sakhalin II energy project off Russia's Pacific coast do not necessarily mean the revocation of licenses under a production-sharing agreement (PSA).
- 19:48 26/09/2006
Russia's natural resources minister warned Tuesday that Sakhalin-II would be halted if no environmental guarantees were provided over the pipeline being laid as part of the massive energy project.
- 14:32 26/09/2006
Russia's upper chamber of parliament ordered its committees Tuesday to examine the situation around the massive Sakhalin II energy project, off the country's Pacific coast.
- 20:13 25/09/2006
According to the World Wildlife Fund Russia, dead crabs and fish appeared September 21-22 on a strip of 10 kilometers (6 miles) along the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk, where Shell-led Sakhalin Energy is building facilities for Sakhalin II.
- 15:00 25/09/2006
Water tests near the site of the Sakhalin Energy project off Russia's Pacific coast are expected this week after the discovery of mass fish deaths, a global environmental organization said Monday.
- 15:49 21/09/2006
- 12:18 21/09/2006
- 16:19 20/09/2006
Russia's envoy to Japan sought to defuse Thursday a potential conflict with Tokyo over the fate of the Sakhalin II energy project, saying Moscow had no intention of closing it down over claims of environmental damage.
- 10:49 20/09/2006
"I do not see any reason to suspend the implementation of the [Sakhalin II] project until a revision of the feasibility study is complete," Kirill Androsov said.
- 20:11 19/09/2006
The deputy head of Russia's environmental watchdog criticized Tuesday the operator of the massive Sakhalin II energy project in the country's Far East, saying it had not been given a license to wreck the local ecology.
- 14:47 19/09/2006
Russia may stop using production-sharing agreements for mineral deposits but will honor contracts being implemented, the economic development and trade minister said Tuesday.
- 17:32 18/09/2006
- 16:11 15/09/2006
- 18:19 12/09/2006
Russia could lose $10 billion in the Sakhalin II oil and gas project if operators continue to increase expenses, Russia's natural resources minister Tuesday.
- 20:35 06/09/2006
- 14:35 06/09/2006
Russia's economics ministry is hoping to finalize a review of the feasibility study of the Sakhalin-II energy project off the country's Pacific coast by the end of the year, the deputy economics minister said Wednesday.
- 20:08 05/09/2006
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