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Russia moved the first crude through the Vostok Oil trunk pipeline on 5 September 2026, loading it at the Sever Bay terminal in Krasnoyarsk Krai.
President Vladimir Putin authorised the first cargo over a televised video conference; he had announced the launch plan at the Eastern Economic Forum on 3 September 2026.
The roughly 790-km first-stage pipeline, completed on 31 August 2026, links the Vankor cluster and Payakha group of fields to the Arctic coast.
Rosneft puts the project's resource base at about 7 billion tonnes of liquid hydrocarbons and projects exports of 50 million tonnes a year by 2030.
The first cargo went aboard the high-ice-class tanker Valentin Pikul, which the European Union added to its sanctions list on 24 April 2026.
The European Union adds the Arctic shuttle tanker Valentin Pikul to its sanctions list.
The first stage of the Vostok Oil trunk pipeline is completed, linking the Vankor and Payakha fields to the coast.
President Putin outlines the pipeline launch plan at the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum.
First crude flows through the trunk pipeline and is loaded at Sever Bay; Putin authorises the cargo by video conference.
Sever Bay lies on the Kara Sea coast at the mouth of the Yenisei river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, among the northernmost working ports anywhere. Cargo from it sails east along the Northern Sea Route past the Taimyr Peninsula and the Laptev, East Siberian and Chukchi seas to the Bering Strait, or west towards Europe.
Russia's state-controlled oil major and the operator of the Vostok Oil project, its pipeline network and the Sever Bay terminal
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Shipping corridor along Russia's Arctic coast linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, navigable with ice-class vessels and icebreaker support.
A vessel strengthened to break and sail through sea ice, required for year-round Arctic loading such as at Sever Bay.
Rosneft-led Arctic oil project in Krasnoyarsk Krai with an estimated 7 billion tonnes of liquid hydrocarbons, tied to the Northern Sea Route.