{"id":323087,"date":"2026-02-14T06:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T06:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=323087"},"modified":"2026-02-15T08:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T08:57:28","slug":"russia-unveils-major-new-oil-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=323087","title":{"rendered":"Russia Unveils Major New Oil Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Caspian Post \u2013 Feb 11, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Russia\u2019s energy company Gazprom Neft has announced the discovery of a new oil field on the Yamal Peninsula, with estimated geological reserves of 55 million tons of crude oil &#8211; a significant boost to Russia\u2019s Arctic energy ambitions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The newly identified field is located in the <a href=\"https:\/\/caspianpost.com\/kyrgyzstan\/kyrgyzstan-s-gazprom-neft-subsidiaries-affected-by-us-sanctions\">Arctic zone<\/a> of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area and has been named after prominent geologist Alexei Kontorovich, <a href=\"https:\/\/caspianpost.com\/\">The Caspian Post<\/a> reports via <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20260211\/b6654354e8904ffa9c9fdcf7b66f75ed\/c.html\">Chinese media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Company CEO Alexander Dyukov emphasized that the Arctic and Eastern Siberia still hold vast untapped potential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth in the Arctic zone and in Eastern Siberia, as well as in many other regions, there are still opportunities to discover new large and super-large hydrocarbon fields,\u201d Dyukov said, adding that <a href=\"https:\/\/caspianpost.com\/uzbekistan\/uzbekistan-russia-s-gazprom-neft-move-to-strengthen-energy-partnership\">Gazprom Neft<\/a> will continue active geological exploration across all areas of operation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caspianpost.com\/regions\/russia-unveils-major-new-oil-discovery\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian energy giant Gazprom has announced the discovery of another major oil field in the Arctic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":323090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323088,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323087\/revisions\/323088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/323090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}