Offshore staff
MOSCOW – The Arctic Research and Design Center (a joint venture of Rosneft and ExxonMobil) has completed its 2014 Kara Sea winter expedition.
According to Rosneft, this was the largest expedition in the Russian sector of the Arctic Ocean since the days of the USSR. During the 63-day campaign scientists studied the undeveloped Laptev, Kara, and East-Siberian seas from onboard the Yamal ice-breaker vessel.
Additional work was performed off the coast of Novaya Zemlya, the Severnaya Zemlya archipelagoes, and the De Long Islands.
The team conducted ice and meteorological measurements at 35 stations and installed 40 drifting buoys at ice fields and icebergs, with the westernmost buoy placed offshore Novaya Zemlya and the easternmost along Bennett Island in the East Siberian Sea. The