10.02.2013, 19:20
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Zitat:As Offshore Oil Prospects Expand, Putin Calls for More High-Tech Ships
21:42 10/01/2013 ST. PETERSBURG, January 10 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called for his country to boost its production and design of high-tech ships, in comments at a naming ceremony for a new oil-rig supply vessel with icebreaking capability.
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While such capabilities are regularly required in the upper reaches of the Pacific, they could be needed even more important for work in the Arctic.
Arctic territories, believed to hold huge untapped natural resources, have increasingly been at the center of conflicting territorial claims involving the United States, Russia, Canada, Norway and Denmark in recent years – particularly, as rising temperatures lead to a reduction in sea ice, providing access to lucrative offshore oil and gas deposits.
Russian experts estimate recoverable oil and gas resources on the continental shelf at 100 billion tons of oil equivalent.
Russia plans to spend around 1.3 trillion rubles ($44 billion) on economic and social projects in the Arctic by 2020, while total investment in Arctic oil exploration in Russia would amount to $500 billion through 2050, according to officials.