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Murmansk Shipping Company to ship 2 million tons of oil

Publish date: February 14, 2006

On February 9, the Murmansk Shipping Company (MSCO) crossed the 2 million ton border of the shipped oil.

The company conducted its first oil shipping operation from the Pechora Sea, where MSCO has developed a sub-sea oil terminal in year 2000, BarentsObserver reported. The oil shipped from the Pechora Sea is shipped to the “Belokamenka” tanker stationed in the Kola Bay outside Murmansk. The “Belokamenka” is being used as a terminal tanker also by the Rosneft oil company.


The Murmansk Shipping Company is the biggest Russian shipping company in the North. The company also runs the Russian federal fleet of nuclear icebreakers.

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6th meeting of the Carbon Removal Expert Group summary and feedback 

The Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF) has been formally approved by the Council on the 19th of November 2024 and entered into force on the 9th of December 2024, providing an official mandate for the Commission to develop methodologies on carbon farming and carbon removals. However, the technical documents and specifications are still being drafted and revised for input from the Carbon Removals Expert Group (CREG), of which Bellona is a member. 

Photo: Christening of Northern Lights’ first CO₂ carrier in Stavanger in 2025, by Olav Øye

A great leap towards a scaled European market for CCS: Northern Lights expands storage capacity, will store CO₂ from Stockholm  

Europe’s only multi-source, injection-ready CO₂ storage site will more than triple its capacity by 2028. The decision follows an agreement with Stockholm Exergi to transport and store up to 800 – 900 kilotonnes of CO₂ per year. “This decision is years in the making, and the culmination of decades of hard work from many, Bellona included” says Bellona Europa Director Jonas Helseth.

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