The United States imposed sanctions against South Kirinskoye field of the Russian company “Gazprom” in the Sea of Okhotsk. This is stated in a report published today in the Official Journal of Federal Register (part of the US Department of Commerce), transmit “Vedomosti”.
The US government has decided that the export, re-export and distribution within the country of any equipment which is subject to export regulations for this field by any person without the prior consent of the Bureau of Industry and Security (structure DOC) contains risks of infringement of sectoral sanctions against Russia.
South Kirinskoye included in the sanctions list, “because it was reported that it contains significant oil reserves.”
South Kirinskoye – one of the largest oil fields on the Russian shelf.
Earlier, the Ministry of Finance of the United States included in the list of sanctions sectoral management company of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RFPI), subsidiaries of “Rosneft” and the bank, crossing Kerch, as well as the son of Boris Rotenberg and Ukrainian businessman Sergei Kurchenko.
