Greenpeace climbers close to the Gazprom Prirazlomnaya oil drilling platform. Earlier, a team of 6 Greenpeace activists including Executive Director of Greenpeace International, Kumi Naidoo spent 15 hours on board Gazprom's giant Arctic oil platform off the North-eastern coast of Russia in the Pechora Sea. Gazprom looks set to begin full commercial drilling operations by early next year, becoming the first ever company to start commercial oil production in the offshore Arctic.