Russia launches major Vostok Oil project with first Arctic loading

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Russia’s Rosneft has launched the large-scale Vostok Oil project in the Arctic region, inaugurating a new pipeline and commencing oil loading on an ice-class tanker at the Bukhta Sever Port on the Kara Sea. This initiative supports Russia’s goals to increase oil production despite geopolitical tensions.

Russia’s biggest oil producer Rosneft said Sept. 6 that it has launched its giant Vostok Oil project, opening a new pipeline and loading first oil onto the Arc7 ice-class Arctic tanker Valentin Pikul at the Bukhta Sever Port on the Kara Sea. The project is central to Russia’s plan to lift oil output across its ...