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Russia and Japan discuss bridge across 28 miles of sea Tom Parfitt, Moscow September 6 2017, 5:00pm, The Times Russia and Japan are in “serious discussions” to link the two countries via a bridge that could allow rail travel all the way from London to Tokyo. The proposed 28-mile bridge would join Cape Crillon on the Russian island of Sakhalin to Cape Sōya at the northern tip of Japan’s Hokkaido island. A shorter bridge or tunnel that has been mooted from Khabarovsk region on the Russian mainland to Sakhalin would eventually allow an uninterrupted rail journey of about 6,000 miles...

Rosneft broke another world record Tuesday after drilling the world’s longest well at the Chayvo field off the coast of Russia’s Sakhalin Island. The O-14 production well was drilled to a record breaking depth of 44,291 feet with a horizontal reach of 39,478 feet. The well is part of the Sakhalin-1 project that includes the offshore Chayvo, Odoptu and Arkutun-Dagi fields. Since the start of drilling at Sakhalin-1 the company has broken nine world records including setting two consecutive records for measured depth in 2013. Russia’s Rosneft said the extended reach drilling was among the fastest ever thanks to ExxonMobil’s...

Exxon Mobil Corp. said Monday it has begun producing from the third and final field of its Russian Sakhalin-1 project. The Sakhalin-1 project is a joint venture with several Russian oil and gas companies and is operated by Exxon Neftegas Ltd. The third field, Arkutun-Dagi, is expected to reach a peak production of 90,000 barrels per day, Exxon Mobil said in its announcement. Exxon Neftegas owns a 30 percent interest in the field and Japan’s Sakhalin Oil and Gas Development Co. Ltd. holds another 30 percent interest. India’s ONGC Videsh Ltd. also holds a 20 percent interest and several affiliates...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire in a cathedral on the Russian island of Sakhalin, off the country's eastern coast, on Sunday, killing a nun and a churchgoer and wounding six other people, state-run news agency RIA reported.

Political links boosted amid China moves, need for Sakhalin's fuels Just 160 km from the northern tip of Hokkaido, Sakhalin is a desolate island that has long been ignored by world powers. Remnants of Japanese shrines are reminders that the island was governed by Imperial Japan until the end of World War II. Now this lonely island, with huge reserves of oil and natural gas, is emerging as a strategic connection between Cold War-era foes Japan and Russia, making them close partners and even potential allies, with their leaders having met four times last year and discussed increased Russian energy...

A Russian military plane crashed into the sea during a training exercise in Russia's Far East region, leaving all 11 crew members missing and presumed dead, officials said on Saturday. The Tupolev Tu-142 plane disappeared from radar as it was coming to the end of a training mission on Friday over the Tatarski Strait that divides Russia's Far East island of Sakhalin from the mainland, the defence ministry said. "Given the conditions under which the catastrophe took place, we can presume that all the crew aboard the Tu-142 were killed," a source in the emergencies ministry told the RIA Novosti...

Russian police have raided the Moscow offices of the oil giant BP and its joint venture TNK-BP. The searches have renewed fears that the Russian government wants greater control of foreign-owned energy assets. There is market speculation that the Kremlin would like the state-owned gas firm Gazprom to buy the stakes of BP's Russian partners in TNK-BP. Last year, TNK-BP was forced to sell its stake in the Kovykta gas field at a discount price to Gazprom. In 2006, Shell was forced to cede control of its Sakhalin gas field to Gazprom. "We will co-operate with the authorities but we...

Sakhalin seismologists continue to register earth shocks measuring 3-4 on the Richter scale which occur every 1-1.5 hours. According to the latest data, the earthquake’s epicenter is moving towards the regional centre Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk city.

Sakhalin seismologists continue to register earth shocks measuring 3-4 on the Richter scale which occur every 1-1.5 hours. According to the latest data, the earthquake’s epicenter is moving towards the regional centre Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk city.

The Kremlin has moved decisively to take back ownership of Russia's oil-and-gas assets, taking effective control of Royal Dutch Shell's Sakhalin-2 project and issuing a chilling warning to BP about its future in the country. President Putin personally oversaw the signing of a deal in which Shell will hand over control of Sakhalin to Gazprom, while a key Kremlin official warned BP that it has no choice but to accede to Russian demands with its latest project, or face crippling sanctions. Shell and its Japanese partners accepted a $7.45bn (£3.8bn) cash payment for a stake of 50pc plus one share...

Shell succumbed to months of creeping state pressure on Monday, offering Gazprom new terms of entry into its key Sakhalin-2 project. Shell CEO Joroen van der Veer held talks in Moscow on Friday with Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller and Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko, spokespeople at Shell and Gazprom said. Both sides refused to comment on a Reuters report citing industry insiders that said Shell had offered to cede its controlling stake in Sakhalin-2 to the state-run gas giant.

LONDON, October 4, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Companies from all over the world head to the London Stock Exchange when they need to attract international investment and raise development capital. Firms from Russia and elsewhere in the CIS are among the latest to head to London to launch initial public offerings (IPOs) -- their first sale of stock to the public.

Kremlin 'bullying' leaves western energy companies furious By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow (Filed: 23/09/2006) In the past few years, mention of Vladimir Putin at the dinner table of some western leaders could have brought on a case of indigestion. In the past week, though, the Russian president has been causing ulcers. Sakhalin Energy extracts oil and gas from one of the world's most inhospitable regions On Monday, Russia suspended an environmental permit for an oil and gas project led by Royal Dutch Shell on Sakhalin Island in the Pacific Ocean. The international community has watched with queasiness as democracy in...

When Shell started shelling out mega bucks to drill for oil off the coast of Sakhalin Island, Russia wasn't one of the global oil suppliers. Russia is now. It is just plain costing too much for Shell to get the oil out of the icy water in the sea of Oshkosh. So...Shell has teamed up with Russia's Giant Gazprom. Gazprom will get a share of whatever they find in the sea of Oshkosh, and Shell gets a 50% stake in a Gazprom field in western Siberia. The relationship with Gazprom is supposed to give Shell some political protection, but it...

Sakhalin Island is a remote and sparsely populated area in the farthest east section of Russia. It sits to the north of Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido. Its ports freeze over part of each year because, well, it is so dang cold. But Sakhalin is where the future may lie -- at least for Russia's big oil. The island is about 600 miles long -- about the length of California but about one/fourth the size -- and there are an estimated 45 billion barrels of oil equivalent that lie beneath its seas. California probably has that much, too, but the...

History Channel 7pm CST,"Secrets of The Black Box". 1983 shootdown of Korean #007 over Sakhalin Island. This program is reported to have new material.

These words were written by Anton Chekhov, who visited Sakhalin, the "Russian Australia," the remote land where convicts were sent, in 1890. That was long before the huge oil and gas deposits were discovered on the Sakhalin shelf. As irony would have it, the fantastic mineral wealth was discovered in that unsuitable upper third of the island that was not counted. The oil and gas deposits that went on to become part of the production-sharing ventures Sakhalin-1 and Sakhalin-2 were discovered during the Soviet years: Odopto (1977), Chaivo (1979), Lunskoye (1984), Piltun-Astokhskoye (1986) and Arktun-Daginskoye (1989). But there was no...

Energy giants begin tapping Sakhalin's vast oil and gas reserves 16 minutes ago Add Business - AFP to My Yahoo! CHAYVO BAY, Russia, May 4 (AFP) - Against a backdrop of wintry tundra and the grey-blue hues of a frozen sea, a huge blue tower rises from a beach on the northeast coast of the Russian island of Sakhalin. On a brief flight by helicopter, the compact mass of an oil platform looms up amid the pristine white ice floes. AFP Photo Related Quotes DJIANASDAQ^SPC 8582.681502.88930.08 +128.43+30.32+13.78 delayed 20 mins - disclaimerQuote Data provided by Reuters   The drilling rig on...