Letter from Varandei

[摘要] Note. - In the 1980s, expectations of an oil boom in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug fueled dreams of economic development for the community of Varandei on the coast of the Barents Sea. The first oil tanker headed from Varandei to Arkhangelsk as an experimental voyage in 1985. In 1999 Aker MTW (a Norwegian-owned shipyard in Germany) delivered three new ice-breaking oil tankers to Lukoil Arktik Tanker, a subsidiary of the Russian company Lukoil (Aker MTW 1999), as part of a programme to build up a fleet. Designed to transport chemicals, oil products, vegetable oils and refinery condensates, these tankers are expected to be used for deliveries to towns along the Northern Sea Route and eventually to ship crude oil from the fields of northern Russia. In April 1998, the governor of the Nenets Autonomous District administration, Vladimir Butov, announced that a new oil terminal under construction at Varandei would be used to ship oil along the northern route to Russian and other European markets. Expected to ease t...

[学科分类] 自然科学（综合）