Bergen-based DOF Subsea has secured a significant deal to take forward the Barents Sea Shtokman gas and condensate development.

An international school for children of Shtokman employees will be opened in Murmansk.

FMC in Norway has bagged a big deal to supply Gazprom with new subsea hardware for a subsea to beach project off Sakhalin Island.

Two meetings are being hosted by Shtokman Development AG to help supply chain members prepare for tenders for the huge gas and condensate deepwater field development.

A new Russian leader has been appointed to head up the Shtokman Development company.

A senior Total executive has signalled that he expects the first liquefied gas from the Shtokman field to be produced in 2017.

Russian explorer Matra Petroleum reported today that an appraisal well on the Sokolovskoe field in the Orenburg region has confirmed oil.

The head of the Shtokman Development company Yuri Komarov has quit after ending a vacation.

Russia's Rio Novosti business website has said development work on the Shtokman gas and condensate field will start next Spring, citing Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as it source.

A state-owned shipyard refuses to pay a debt of 45 million dollars. Odfjell has approached Norwegian authorities for assistance.

There is a dispute related to the drillship Deep Venture's contract.

A solution to the 40 year old territorial conflict between Norway and Russia could be over next month.

Technology specialists required for the giant Shtokman offshore development will likely get their training in the Arkhangelsk region, according to reports.

Songa Offshore has secured a new deal for its Songa Mercur rig working for Gazprom subsidiary Gazflot.

Novaya Zemlya in the Archangel peninsula in Russia is being considered as a supply base for the Barents Sea Shtokman development to provide logistics and helicopter operations support, a report has suggested.

The Russian giant Gazprom exported 13 per cent less gas in 2009 than in 2008.

Shtokman Development has postponed the financial decisions until 2011.

Shtokman Development may postpone the Shtokman LNG project due to the weakened global demand for gas.

London-listed PetroNeft Resources says it is on schedule for completion of an export pipeline serving the Tomsk area in Russia by April this year in an operational update today.

Gazprom has found buyers for half of the Nord Stream gas in Germany, Denmark, France and the UK.

Asia's Daewoo shipyard looks set to win a huge order to deliver gas carriers for Russia's offshore Shtokman development.

Gazprom has ordered four Shtokman-tankers to be built at Daewoo shipyard in South Korea. The total costs are estimated at two billion US dollars.

Russia and Ukraine has come to an agreement on what Russia will pay for exporting oil via Ukraine.

The start of the Shtokman development will be postponed according to Head of Gazprom's Board of Directors, Viktor Zubkov.

Russia has decided to import Turkmen gas from January after a nine-month break, according to the deputy head of Gazprom, Alexander Medvedev.

Sweden's Lundin Petroleum has sold out of its stake in a Russian onshore oil field for US $0.5 m which was producing just 280 b/d of oil.

Delegates from offshore industry research groups have concluded a meeting in Moscow which has laid down ground rules for future oil and gas operations in the Barents Sea.