Gazprom Seeks Western Contractors for Blacklisted Field

摘要

In a show of defiance against sanctions, Russia’s state-con- trolled gas giant Gazprom is inviting Western companies to bid for work on the deepwater Yuzhno-Kirinskoye field, which was blacklisted by the US in 2015 for having the potential to produce crude oil. In a separate development, Gazprom’s oil arm, Gazprom Neft, is gearing up to announce potentially Russia’s biggest discovery of recent times, offshore Sakhalin Island, on Russia’s Pacific coast, sources say