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OFFSHORE ECO ZERO DISCHARGE PROJECTS PRINCIPLES PRINCIPLE

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SAFETY HUMAN MONITORING MARGIN FACTOR DEMONSTRATES…

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* OF THE CLOBAL OF THE WORLD’S LUKOIL worldwide : CRUDE OIL PROVED OIL LUKOIL: OFFSHORE PROJECT PRODUCTION RESERVES

Kravtsovskoe 2013 depth 490 m territory 594 km² 2004 depth 35 m Pl-858 NORWAY RUSSIA Barents Sea 2016 depth 250 m territory 1432 km²

Black Sea 2011 depth 1200 m Barents Sea ROMANIA territory 1000 km² 2008 LUKOIL share in the project is 88%

Caspian Sea discovered 2000 depth 13 m RUSSIA production started 2010 of 2017 вepth 200 m territory 521 km² MEXICO discovered 2005 depth 11 m production started 2016

Gulf of Guinea (Atlantic ) Caspian Sea 2014 depth 70 m 1996 depth 50-600 m territory 460 km² territory 860 km² AZERBAIJAN CAMEROON LUKOIL share in the project is 30% LUKOIL share in the project is 10%

Gulf of Guinea Gulf of Guinea () (Atlantic Ocean) 2014 depth 3000 m 2014 depth 2000 m GHANA territory 2009 km² territory 1220 km² NIGERIA LUKOIL share in the project is 18%

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SEA PROJECTS

BALTIC SEA

The Baltic Sea is where LUKOIL produced its first oil from an In 2011, LUKOIL became the first Russian company to get a qualifying permit offshore oilfield. Kravtsovskoe (D-6) was discovered in 1983 and is for the operation in the off Norway as an operator company. now one of the largest oilfields in the Russian continental shelf in Today, the Company is taking part in two offshore geological the southeast part of the Baltic Sea. Oil production is carried out projects in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea. from an offshore ice-resistance stationary platform D-6. It is the first Russian oil-producing platform designed and built by Russian design In Russia, LUKOIL built a unique export terminal in the Barents Sea. Its and organizations using state-of-the-art technologies. unique character is primarily due to its natural conditions: the Barents Sea is ice-coated for 247 days a year on average with the ice thickness of 1.25-1.8 m. LUKOIL plans to continue production in the region due to the development of the new oilfields opened by the Company (the principal of which is oilfield D33). OTHER CASPIAN SEA COUNTRIES

The North Caspian is one of the key of oil and gas LUKOIL was one of the first foreign companies to get access to the production growth. In 1995-2016, the Company opened 10 oilfields Mexican shelf. In 2014, LUKOIL entered into a cooperation agreement with the total initial recoverable oil reserves of 7 billion barrels of oil with the Mexican PEMEX laying out the principles of joint efforts in equivalent. The concept of oilfields development effective to 2030 the area of oil exploration and production. In 2017, based on tender contemplates the construction of 25 platforms and 1.5 thousand results, LUKOIL won the right to enter into a Contract for Block 12 as km of pipelines, running predominantly under the sea surface. The an Operator. In 2018, LUKOIL in consortium with , Italy, has won the first oilfield launched into operation was Yu. Korchagin’s oilfield, and right to enter into a contract for Block 28. in 2016 LUKOIL started the commercial operation of V. Filanovsky’s oilfield. Besides, LUKOIL takes part in offshore projects in Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon. The projects in West have allowed the Company to From 1996, LUKOIL also takes part in the development of offshore gain experience of deepwater oilfields development. gas condensate oilfield Shah-Deniz in the Azerbaijan shelf of the Caspian Sea. From 2011, the Company has been involved in the exploration of the In 2018, LUKOIL and KazMunayGaz entered into a Principles Romanian sector of the . In October, 2015, the drilling of sea Agreement for the Zhenis Block located in the Kazakhstan sector of structure Lira (Trident Block) discovered a large gas deposit. the Caspian Sea.

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LUKOIL ECO PRINCIPLES

ZERO DISCHARGE PRINCIPLE NON-WASTE STRUCTURAL OPERATIONAL The zero discharge principle underpins INTEGRITY LUKOIL’s environmental safety system as TECHNOLOGIES INTEGRITY LUKOIL’s own scientific and technical part of the offshore project implementation. background, as well as its production The zero discharge principle implies absolute infrastructure make it possible to design, prohibition of any production and domestic construct and operate unique multibay waste discharge to the marine environment. offshore fixed facilities compliant with the As soon as the waste is collected and sorted international industrial and environmental out it is transported onshore for waste safety standards. High levels of engineering recycling. The zero discharge principle is reliability are reached thanks to mathematical strictly abided both during exploration modeling of emergency situations and and production drilling as well as during probability calculation techniques of risk commercial hydrocarbon production. management.

SPECIAL PERSONNEL INTEGRATED AND TRAINING ENVIRONMENTED The task of LUKOIL specialized corporate training center is to train people to work at MONITORING offshore oil and gas facilities. The skills of The monitoring of human impact on offshore industrial and personal safety are the environment is contributing to the developed by means of unique simulators development of new environmental programs which imitate real-life environment. and the adjustment of existing ones, as LUKOIL Group is consistently maintaining its part of the preventive safety measures. capabilities in terms of emergency situation Satellite, marine, onshore and coastal response. It is ensured by regular common monitoring implies studies of the sea surface, exercises with the Russian Ministry of geological and geochemical, hydrologic and Emergency Situations and hydrochemical observation, hydrobiological the Ministry of Transport, as well as maritime HIGH CONTINUOUS and ornithological observation, analysis of rescue fleet of neighboring countries and meteorological data, control over seismic foreign experts. QUALIFICATION MONITORING conditions, etc.

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ZERO DISCHARGE PRINCIPLE THE PRINCIPLE OF «ZERO DISCHARGE»

and collection 1. SORTING OUT of waste

cuttings (sludge) solid industrial waste solid domestic waste oil-contaminated (formation) water drilling waste water drill mud domestic waste water storm drains

and onshore 2. LOADING transportation of waste LUKOIL is guided by the zero discharge principle both during exploration and containers are used for solid waste transportation production drilling as well as during each container with drilling sludge receives registry number commercial hydrocarbon production. The and is sealed before transportation standards used by LUKOIL to comply with the liquid waste is transported by tankers «zero discharge principle» as part of offshore liquid waste is pumped out by separate pipelines, which makes its mixing impossible projects are taken as the basis for the HELCOM support vessels have the ice class and the draft suitable for shallow waters (Helsinki Commission) recommendations for the countries operating at the Baltic shelf. 3. WASTE RECYCLING

CUTTINGS: stabilized industrial soil, road construction, reclamation, manufacturing of construction materials DRILLING WASTE WATER: technical water, process needs OIL-CONTAMINATED WATER: technical water, process needs DOMESTIC WASTE WATER: water, process needs, watering of vegetation plantations

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KEY SAFETY FEATURES AND The LUKOIL personnel, ENGINEERING SOLUTUIONS a number of its SAFETY MARGIN subsidiaries and contractors were CUTTING-EDGE GLOBAL ENGINEERING awarded with the RF Government Prize in SOLUTIONS HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED TO Utilization of special cold-resistant steel Science and Technology THE VARANDEY TERMINAL for the structures of the fixed ice-resistant for development and shipping berth. commercial introduction of innovative The Varandey settlement located at the Barents methodological and Sea coast in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug engineering solutions can be regarded as one of the polygons where Double-hulled reinforced ice class tankers. as part of establishment LUKOIL tests its innovative engineering know-how of the oil transportation and technologies. The design specifics of the system in the of Varandey oil export terminal were determined Three protection levels and autonomous operation of the the . by severe climatic and ice conditions of the Arctic environmental safety system at the shipping berth. Circle region, the peculiarities of permafrost soil (“permanent frost”), high tundra vulnerability, proximity of deer pastures, etc. Steel double-walled containers with extra leakproof The unique facility that has no rivals in the protection at the onshore terminal facilities world, has become the key one as part of the oil (the “glass-in-glass” principle). transportation system at the Arctic Ocean shelf.

A special thermal stabilization system of artificially frozen foundation soils down to a 6-m depth under the shore tank pads the onshore terminal facilities (the “glass-in-glass” principle).

Reinforced-concrete guard rail of the tank battery optimized for the dynamic effect of the breakthrough wave in case of unexpected tank destruction.

Continuous oil heating that makes it impossible for it to freeze in the pipeline, due to the laying of two pipeline strings.

In 2011, LUKOIL’S Varandey fixed offshore ice resistant shipping terminal (FOIRST) was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s most northerly continuously operating oil terminal, namely, 69 degrees 03 minutes 11 seconds of the northern latitude.

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INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATES HUMAN FACTOR Accreditation of the international Accreditation of the international JOIFF non-profit organization OPITO organization (Ireland) specializing in (Great Britain) training of emergency fire fighting The OPITO International brigades, rules of respiratory system LUKOIL HAS BUILT THE Industry Training Organization utilization, etc. FIRST RUSSIAN CORPORATE sets educational standards and JOIFF exercises control over fire hazardous requirements to personnel training situations on a global scale, as well as sets its TRAINING CENTER TO for offshore commercial oil and gas own standards for fire fighting personnel and PROVIDE THE HIGH-SKILLED production emergency rescue team training PERSONNEL TO WORK AT OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS FACILITIES.

OIL SPILL RESPONSE TRAINING IN 2015-2017 The corporate training center More than 150 exercises and LUKOIL CORPO- (Ilyinka settlement, Astrakhan training sessions aimed at RATE TRAINING Oblast) provides education in emergency oil and petroleum spill 95 training programs including response are conducted annually. CENTER: advanced training. The large-scale exercises at the The training programs provide for Company’s offshore facilities practical exercises with different are traditionally attended by simulators that reproduce real the crews from with the Russian working conditions at offshore oil Ministry of Emergency Situations fire safety Kaliningrad-2015, a large-scale and gas facilities under standard and the Ministry of Transport, exercises aiming to build up International integrated exercises conditions, and in extraordinary as well as maritime rescue fleet interaction skills between sea rescue and aimed at and emergency situations, of neighboring countries, the in-house and external forces response in the vicinity as well as in the conditions of countries of the Arctic Council survival skills and means (GLOBAL-FLOT, «Marine Service of possible fire outbreaks (fire and other foreign observers and Rosmorrechflot», «Seaport fighting in case of gas leaks and experts. emergency administration of the Baltic inflammation at pressurized In 2014 Arktika-2014 exercises response Sea») for oil spill response process units, fire extinguishment were held within the framework in the area of the offshore LUKOIL and of a burning helicopter, working of the international meeting ice-resistant platform of D-6 neft carried out joint in smoke chamber). Personnel attended by representatives of the Kravtsovskoye field, as well as training sessions aimed is also trained in evacuation Arctic Council member countries, the subsea section of an oil at oil spill response in ice from a helicopter that has come Arctic Council observers and the pipeline. conditions Arktika-2017 in down in the water (helicopter international scientific community. Arkhangelsk Oblast. The cabin simulator and rescue It also included a visit to the environmental training hoist), evacuation from offshore facilities of the Varandey oil export was conducted in the area of the Barents Sea, platform into the open sea terminal. THE CENTER IS CA- and survival in the open water close to the ice-resistant PABLE OF TRAINING oil export terminal (individual survival kit, lifeboat, MORE THAN 2000 Varandey and offshore rescue raft). PERSONS PER YEAR. ice-resistant platform of the RPK-Vysotsk Prirazlomnaya. The results LUKOIL-II terminal with have confirmed that rescue vessels from LUKOIL and Gazprom Finland. neft possess sufficient means and resources to prevent or liquidate the consequences of oil spills in ice conditions in the Arctic waters.

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MODEL STRUCTURE OF LUKOIL’S OPERATIONAL MONITORING DEMONSTRATES… ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING SYSTEM

PRESERVATION OF FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT IS AMONG LUKOIL’S TOP SUBSYSTEM (IMS) PRIORITIES MONITORING CENTER DATA COLLECTION STATIONS

Regular measurements Primary and state observation Data transfer information of environmental to MIS processing components

INFORMATION MEASUREMENT NETWORK (IMN)

WEATHER LAB VESSELS STATIONS

AUTOMATED AUTOMATED AEROLOGICAL CONTROL INDUSTRIAL EMISSION STATIONS CONTROL STATIONS

AUTOMATED MOBILE AIR QUALITY A set of measures aimed at environmental ECOLABS CONTROL STATIONS protection is developed on the basis of system-based environmental monitoring in AUTOMATED FIXED-SITE the vicinity of LUKOIL’s offshore facilities and WATER QUALITY ASSAY CONTROL STATIONS comprehensive analysis of satellite images, LABS the data of vessel environmental surveys and fixed observation, coastal routes and stations. A specialized geographical information system (GIS) is used for data Collection, processing, analysis, Information support visualization and analysis. accumulation, storage and Managerial of environmental distribution of monitoring decision-making activities information

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INTEGRATED COASTAL VESSEL SURVEY INTEGRATED WATER SAMPLING OFFSHORE VESSEL AT COASTAL SURVEY MONITORING STATIONS LITHUANIAЛИТВА DATA COLLECTION AND WATER SAMPLING ПОЛЬШАPOLAND LITHUANIA ANALYSIS ALONG SUBSEA KlaipedaКлайпеда PIPELINE ROUTES POLAND BOTTOM Klaipeda SAMPLING РОССИЯRUSSIA RUSSIA FIXED-SITE SURVEYS VISUAL MONITORING METEOROLOGICAL DATA COLLECTION ONSHORE AND COASTAL AND ANALYSIS EN ROUTE ANALYSIS (SPECIES WATER SAMPLING AT COMPOSITION, QUANTITY, ПлатформаD-6 Platform D-6 OFFSHORE FACILITIES MIGRATION, ETC.) D-6 Platform SURFACE FLOW POLLUTION MONITORING ALONG ANALYSIS COASTAL WALKING ROUTES

SEISMIC STATE CONTROL ZelenogradskЗеленоградск Zelenogradsk VESSEL SATELLITE TRAWLING KaliningradКалининград MONITORING SURVEYS Kaliningrad BaltiyskБалтийск IDENTIFICATION OF FISH FAUNA Baltiysk POSSIBLE OIL SPILLS SAMPLING USING THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY METHODOLOGY GdanskГданьск LAB Gdansk PROPAGATION PREDICTION TESTS OF HYPOTHETIC OIL SPILLS (DIRECTION, TRAJECTORY AND TRANSFER RATE) PHYSICAL ПОNOT РЕЗУЛЬТАТАМ A SINGLE SPILL СПУТНИКОВОГО FROM OIFP D-6 ORМОНИТОРИНГА D-6 IN VIEW OF THE CHEMICAL HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL НЕUNDERWATER БЫЛО ВЫЯВЛЕНО PIPELINE НИ WAS ОДНОГО REVEALED. ПЯТНА ОТ МЛСП D-6 CONDITIONS BIOLOGICAL ИЛИMOST ОТ OF ПОДВОДНОГО THE OIL SPILLS ТРУБОПРОВОДА. WERE НЕФТЯНЫЕ CONCENTRATEDПЯТНА БЫЛИ СОСРЕДОТОЧЕНЫ AT THE ROADSTREAD НА РЕЙДЕ OF ПОРТА THEБАЛТИЙСК BALTYJSK И ОСНОВНЫХ PORT AND ALONG СУДОХОДНЫХ MAJOR ТРАССАХ NOT A SINGLE SPILL FROM OIFP D-6 OR UNDERWATER PIPELINE WAS REVEALED. MANY YEARS OF OBSERVATIONS WITHIN THE AREA OF COMPANY’S NAVIGATION ROUTES. MOST OF THE OIL SPILLS WERE CONCENTRATED AT THE ROADSTREAD OF RESPONSIBILITY PROVE THAT ITS OFFSHORE FACILITIES HAVE NO THE BALTYJSK PORT AND ALONG MAJOR NAVIGATION ROUTES. NEGATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT.

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AN ARTIFICIAL REEF IS A SUBSEA BOTTOM LANDSCAPE ELEMENT WHICH PLATFORM REEF – HELPS ENHANCE BIO AND FISH PRODUCTIVITY OF THE WATER BODY. ARTIFICIAL REEFS ARE BIO FRIENDLY CONSTRUCTIONS. THEY TURN THE SEAL HOUSE DEAD BOTTOM INTO OASES OF SUBSEA LIFE. THE GREATER BIODIVERSITY IS, THE HIGHER IS THE CHANCE OF THE SEA OR A WATER BODY TO RESPOND TO POLLUTION AND TO RECOVER ITSELF.

SPECIAL ATTENTION IS PAID TO THE STATE OF BIOTA, A HISTORICALLY ESTABLISHED CLUSTER OF SPECIES THAT LIVE IN THE VICINITY OF LUKOIL’S OFFSHORE LICENSE BLOCKS

ONE OF LUKOIL OFFSHORE PLATFORMS (AT THE YU. KORCHAGIN FIELD) ACTUALLY IS AN ARTIFI- CIAL REEF. ITS SUBSEA FOUNDATION BECOMES OVERGROWN WITH SEAWEEDS AND SERVES AS A SUITABLE GROUND FOR FASTENING OF , ARTHROPODS OR OTHER KINDS OF INVERTEBRATES. THE ESTABLISHED STRUCTURE BECOMES INHABITED BY DIFFERENT CRUSTACEANS, AND THE FISH THAT FINDS FOOD, REFUGE AND A SPAWNING AREA HERE. THE FISH IS FOLLOWED BY CASPIAN SEALS.

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FINANCING OF COMPENSATION EFFORTS ON THE REPRODUCTION OF FISH SPOT FISH RESOURCES IN 2017 ≈ RUB 280 MILLION

Environmental culture has long become an integral part of LUKOIL’s production activities. Repopulation of

the Company’s environmental program. For instance, in 2013 alone (2013 was declared the Year of Environmental Protection in Russia) over 250 thousand of young sterlets were released into the of the Volga-Kama basin at the Company’s initiative. In

STURGEONS, A RELICT SPECIES THAT SURVIVED MILLIONS OF YEARS OF EVOLUTION, WHICH ADAPTED TO THE MOST DIVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ARE INCLUDED INTO THE ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST (RED LIST). IT IS A KNOWN FACT THAT MOST OF WERE RELEASED THE WORLD’S STOCK (MORE THAN 90%) INTO THE IS LOCATED IN THE CASPIAN BASIN. THEREFORE CASPIAN SEA COMMERCIAL REPRODUCTION OF TO PRESERVE THEIR POPULATION AND BIODIVERSITY IS 2017 GAINING IN IMPORTANCE. OVER

ACIPENSERRUTHENUS ENVIRONMENTAL MEASURES TO MINIMIZE THE NEGATIVE EFFECT ON THE FISH FAUNA 47 000 Sterlet OF STURGEON (Acipenserruthenus) BABY FISH is the smallest representative of water intake stations at offshore facilities sturgeons. Its size is are equipped with fish protection systems 1.25 m, it weighs 16 offshore pipeline routes bypass specially THE MEASURES TO PRESERVE BIODIVERSITY ARE kg, its life span is 27 INCLUDED INTO THE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM TO years. It inhabits the protected natural areas basins of the Black, BE JOINTLY IMPLEMENTED BY THE UN AND THE subsea pipeline construction operations are GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL FACILITY. Azov, Caspian, White, conducted inview of the sturgeon spawning Barents and Kara Seas. In the wild it feeds on migration routes WHILE LOOKING AT 15CM LONG YOUNG STERLETS ONE CAN water maggots, small participation in young sturgeon HARDLY BELIEVE THAT IN SOME THREE YEARS THEY WILL BE HALF shellfish, other fish reproduction measures A METER LONG AND TURN INTO A TRUE DECORATION OF THE RIVERS eggs. BELONGING TO THE CASPIAN BASIN.

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CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY

LUKOIL GROUP ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY PROGRAM LUKOIL has developed and approved the Environmental Safety Program for 2018-2020, which contemplates over 900 activities with the total cost about RUB 102 billion with RUB 38 billion to be spent in 2018. This Program incorporates a subprogram «BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION» as a distinction from past programs. The expected results of the Program implementation in 2018-2020 are the LUKOIL’S PROGRAM minimization of impact of LUKOIL Group operations on the biodiversity of sensitive OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION territories, including the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation. In 2015, LUKOIL approved its Program of Biodiversity Conservation in pursuance of the instructions given by the President of the Russian Federation in regard to the effective and safe development of the Arctic Region. TRAINING IN PREVENTION OF ANIMAL DEATHS IN CASE The Program was developed in line with statutory and other applicable requirements concerning the OF EMERGENCY OIL SPILLS preservation of biodiversity and the joint recommendations of the Project UNDP/GEF-Ministry of Natural In 2017, at the Naryan-Mar base LUKOIL Group companies Varandei Resources and Environment of Russia “Mainstreaming Biodiversity Conservation into Russia’s Energy Sector Terminal, LLC, and LUKOIL-Komi, LLC, the training on the prevention of Policies and Operations” and Russian WWF. animal deaths in case of emergency oil spills was held. The event was The Program outlines LUKOIL’s principles and approaches to the preservation of biodiversity and the organized by the international SEA ALARM Foundation together with requirements to documentation drafting, assessment of environmental impact and development of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Russia and the activities aimed at the preservation of biodiversity for the Company’ offshore production facilities in the Project UNDP/GEF- Ministry of Natural Resources and Arctic Region of the Russian Federation. The Program incorporates the expertise gained in the process Environment of Russia «Mainstreaming Biodiversity of oilfield development in the shelf area of the Baltic and Caspian Seas, where LUKOIL makes significant Conservation into Russia’s Energy Sector Policies and investments into environmental safety. Operations».

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WITH NATURE WWF INTERNATIONAL IN HARMONY ECOREGION PROGRAMS COOPERATION WITH WORLD WIDE FUND FOR NATURE (WWF) AIMED AT THE PROTECTION OF ARCTIC AND BALTIC MARINE ECOSYSTEMS OPERATE SINCE 1990S. WWF BALTIC PROGRAM WITH A HEADQUARTER IN STOCKHOLM (SWEDEN) UNITES 9 COUNTRIES INCLUDING RUSSIA. WWF is one of the largest independent international conservation organizations uniting about 5 millions of regular supporters and present in over 100 countries.

Introduction of the Zero Discharge In 2015, WWF and principle by LUKOIL is an example of how LUKOIL entered WWF Rating oil&gas companies can ensure ecosystem into a cooperation approach through the corporate standards system. We should work agreement regarding In 2014, LUKOIL was toward that this principle is implemented the exchange of included into WWF rating: by other companies which operate in in 2014 rating it ranked ecologically or biologically significant information, according marine areas (EBSAs) described by the to which the parties 9th, in 2015 – 5th, while in Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) carry out bilateral 2016 the Company moved in many Arctic and seas in Russia. The zero discharge principle should also consultations, working up to the 4th position. This area of cooperation is be formalized in legislation which would meetings, exchange include the responsibility to eliminate of special importance as information about the depositing and discharge into marine environmental parameters environment of waste and raw waste environment protection are becoming more and water resulting from Russian continental shelf hydrocarbons production. measures and projects. more significant for the Each year, the parties investment community approve and sign the after the Mexican Gulf THE EXPEDITION FOR STUDYING THE ATLANTIC WALRUS Roadmap of the actions oil spill, and also taking OF THE SOUTHEAST PART OF THE BARENTS SEA. to be implemented into account the current As a part of the dialog between LUKOIL and WWF and with participation of the Russian public organization under the Agreement. climatic and environmental Marine Mammals Council, an expedition was organized in 2016 for studying the Atlantic walrus in the international agenda. southeast part of the Barents Sea, in the area of operations of LLC Varandey terminal. It included the monitoring of walruses’ movement and dynamics of their breeding grounds formation with satellite transmitters and photorecorders, and examination of animals’ tissues for toxicants.

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