Greenpeace experts Roman Dolgov (Russia, left) and Joerg Feddern (Germany, right) in an aeroplane observing the Mikhail Ulyanov oil tanker. The Mikhail Ulyanov oil vessel is on its way from the Prirazlomnaya oil drilling platform in the Pechora Sea to a European harbour. It is the first transport of Arctic offshore oil from Russia to Europe. The platform is operated by Russian state owned energy company Gazprom and is the first to begin producing oil from icy offshore waters in the Arctic.