{"id":342,"date":"2008-02-20T04:12:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T00:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2008-02-20T04:14:28","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T00:14:28","slug":"bp-closes-sakhalin-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/342\/","title":{"rendered":"BP Closes Sakhalin Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upstreamonline.com\/live\/article148664.ece\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> should not come as much of a surprise to anyone who&#8217;s been paying attention:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>UK supermajor BP will close its office in Sakhalin island after it decided to scrap further drilling at Sakhalin 4 and Sakhalin 5, BP&#8217;s Moscow office said today.<\/p>\n<p>BP said its joint venture with Russia&#8217;s largest oil producer Rosneft, Elvari NefteGaz, will only carry out geological exploration at Sakhalin 4 and Sakhalin 5, where drilling has so far not been seen as successful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It had been rumoured around the\u00a0island that BP&#8217;s exploration activities had not bourne fruit, but it is hard to believe that this is all there is to the picture.\u00a0 The Sakhalin 4 and 5 developments are in the far north of the island in deep water which is mostly frozen.\u00a0 To develop the fields would have required extremely complex engineering and enormous investment, with artificial islands having to be constructed in places.<\/p>\n<p>Having seen Shell being forced to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upstreamonline.com\/eceRedirect?articleId=131423\" target=\"_blank\">hand over<\/a> control of the Sakhalin II project, Exxon being told it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upstreamonline.com\/incoming\/article138210.ece\" target=\"_blank\">not allowed<\/a> to export the gas from the Sakhalin I project, and its own major stake in\u00a0the Kovytka field <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upstreamonline.com\/eceRedirect?articleId=136349\" target=\"_blank\">transferred<\/a> to the Russian government, it is probably unlikely that BP&#8217;s shareholders have much stomach for pouring billions of dollars into Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Summer 2007 could prove <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=320\" target=\"_blank\">significant<\/a> yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This should not come as much of a surprise to anyone who&#8217;s been paying attention: UK supermajor BP will close its office in Sakhalin island after it decided to scrap further drilling at Sakhalin 4 and Sakhalin 5, BP&#8217;s Moscow &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/342\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}