First Arctic Oil Shipment in Norwegian Sea

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.

In original language:

Oeltanker Mikhail Ulyanov auf dem Nordostatlantik

Die Greenpeace Experten Roman Dolgov (Russland, links) und Joerg feddern (Deutschland , rechts) im Flugzeug beobachten den Oeltanker. Der Oeltanker Mikhail Ulyanov im Nordatlantik auf dem Weg von der Oelplattform Prirazlomnaya in einen Europaeischen Hafen. Es ist der erste Transport arktischen Offshore-Oels nach Europa. Die Plattform wird von Gazprom betrieben.

Unique identifier: GP0STOBTX

Type: Image

Shoot date: 25/04/2014

Locations: Europe, North Sea, Norway, Norwegian Sea

Credit line: © Dmitrij Leltschuk / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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First Arctic Oil Shipment in Norwegian Sea

The Mikhail Ulyanov oil vassel on its way from Prirazlomnaya oil drilling platform in the Pechora Sea to an 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. The platform was the scene of a high profile protest in September 2013, which led to the imprisonment of 28 Greenpeace activists and two freelance journalists. The “Arctic 30”, as they became known, spent two months in Russian prisons on charges of piracy and hooliganism, before being freed under the terms of an official amnesty.

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