14+ hour, 14+ min ago   (128+ words) Read full story here Torrential rain hits central Japan, floods vital infrastructure in Nagoya Japan weather agency warns of intense rain in Tokyo, 12 areas through Monday 1 dead, over 40 hurt as heavy rain hits central Japan, swamps Nagoya Japan PM Takaichi…...

20+ hour, 26+ min ago   (1604+ words) The previous instalment ended with an apparently contradictory picture. The whales feeding off north-eastern Sakhalin were increasing in number. By 2018 the IUCN would move the western subpopulation from Critically Endangered to Endangered. Yet recovery did not mean security. A small…...

1+ day, 26+ min ago   (227+ words) Chubu Electric Power Co.’s top two executives are set to step down over the falsification of safety data used in regulatory reviews to restart some of its nuclear reactors, according to local media. President Kingo Hayashi and Chairman Satoru…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1581+ words) On 7 July 2015, Exxon Neftegas Limited finished seismic acquisition at Odoptu. On 8 July, Sakhalin Energy recorded the first shot point of its own Piltun-Astokh 4-D survey. On 29 July it recorded the last. That compressed timetable matters because almost everything that had…...

4+ day, 43+ min ago   (184+ words) Thursday September 10, 2026 Construction and commissioning activities at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) are continuing uninterrupted following a fire outside the main facilities. According to a RNPP project, there was no possibility of any impact on the construction and commissioning…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (421+ words) A sudden fire damaged the internal server of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, disrupting internet services at the plant for the past two days. A large number of official documents were also damaged in the fire, though officials said there…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1602+ words) The previous instalment ended with a warning. Sakhalin Energy had kept PA-C alive as a future option. Its 2014 appraisal well had disappeared. But another major operation was moving steadily toward the northeastern Sakhalin shelf. A 4-D seismic survey. The purpose…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (92+ words) The Business Standard Back from vacation? Your skin and hair need recovery How bus spotting turned into the fetishisation of reckless driving Voters in Germany fire a warning shot over Europe All you need is a corner and a good…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1613+ words) The previous instalment ended with a platform location. The 2012 site survey had shown that the alternative “blue location” could work. It lay farther offshore than the earlier preferred PA-C site, farther from the principal Western Gray Whale feeding area and…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1563+ words) By November 2012, the argument over Sakhalin Energy’s proposed third offshore platform had changed. For almost two years the question had been largely theoretical. Would another platform be necessary? Could South Piltun hydrocarbons be recovered from PA-A or PA-B instead? Could…...