摘要:

A noted American specialist on the oil and gas industry of Russia and the former USSR surveys the performance of one of the earliest oil‐producing joint ventures between a Western firm and a Russian partner on the first anniversary of the commencement of its oil production. After surveying the history of the Arctic tundra venture and the negotiations leading to its establishment, the paper focuses on the start‐up, since 1994, of oil production at the Ardala deposit and legal issues involving taxation, royalty payments, and access via pipeline to major export points.

ISSN:0273-8457    

DOI:10.1080/10889379409377551

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1994

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

Two distinguished senior researchers with expertise on Russia's northern regions assess the current situation and recent developments in light of social, environmental, and economic change and recommend adjustments, in some cases substantial, in regional development policy. Particular emphasis is placed in this assessment upon the global importance of the Russian North in an environmental and natural resource sense. The authors add their voices to the now‐familiar call for state intervention to ensure sound management of resources and control over the level of foreign investments. In addition, they argue that, alongside a concern for the protection of the rights of the indigenous minorities (Small Peoples) of the North, attention should be devoted to the interests of a resident Russian population of several centuries.

ISSN:0273-8457    

DOI:10.1080/10889379409377552

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1994

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

The two authors, recognized experts on the Russian North and among the most outspoken advocates of a thorough re‐examination of environmental and social policy in the Russian North, seek to identify (through an exhaustive survey of published sources, their own professional experience, and archival data) the essential characteristics of the Russian North and the key problems confronting Russia's northern regions today. The resulting essay, which incorporates many of the authors’ personal views, is of interest as a candid assessment of the magnitude of the difficulties and the seriousness of current conditions in the North today. An initial section makes the case for the uniqueness of the region in terms of the character of the problems it faces and the potential for solutions.

ISSN:0273-8457    

DOI:10.1080/10889379409377553

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1994

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

The paper describes the practical applications of radar imagery from a European Space Agency (ESA) satellite to support ice cover monitoring in the Kara and Pechora Seas along the western part of the Northern Sea Route. Of particular interest is the description of a comprehensive joint program of ice cover monitoring supported by the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (Norway), the Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (St. Petersburg), and the Murmansk Maritime Shipping Administration (Murmansk). An active side‐looking radar, supplemented by a passive microwave radiometer, supplied imagery to icebreakers leading convoys along various portions of the Northern Sea Route during 1993 and 1994. Particular attention is devoted to exploring the potential of such imagery for the optimal selection of navigation routes and determination of the age of sea ice.

ISSN:0273-8457    

DOI:10.1080/10889379409377554

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1994

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

The distribution of the alkaline lamprophyres (dikes and diatremes) of the central and southern parts of the Kola Peninsula and of the kimberlite pipes on its southeastern coast is controlled by the Onega‐Kandalaksha graben zone. In the western part of this zone the dikes and diatremes are confined to alkaline‐ultramafic plutons, but in the eastern part they form independent fields. The depth of the magma chambers increases from west to east, toward Arkhangel'sk Oblast. The kimberlites probably formed at depths of 110 to 160 km. The Kola and Arkhangel'sk lamprophyres, picrites, and kimberlites probably represent a single alkaline‐ultramafic province.

ISSN:0273-8457    

DOI:10.1080/10889379409377555

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1994

数据来源: Taylor

ISSN:0273-8457    

DOI:10.1080/10889379409377550

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1994

数据来源: Taylor