Russian tanker to deliver 200th shipment of oil to SKorea.

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, July 22 (Itar-Tass) - The 200th batch of oil has
been shipped under the Sakhalin-2 project, announced an official in the
press service of the Sakhalin Energy Company (SEC) -- the operator of the
project.

The tanker Ostrov Sakhalin (Sakhalin island) is to deliver about
100,000 tonnes of oil, produced by the Company on the shelf of the Sea of
Okhotsk, to an oil refining company in the Republic of Korea.
SEC Chief Executive Officer Ian Craig has said the shipment of the
200th batch ofoil is yet another reaffirmation of Sakhalin's mouinting
role as energy center of the Asia-Pacific Region.
The SEC has been producing oil on the Sakhalin shelf since 1999.
Originally, the production and shipment of oil were carried out on a
seasonal basis from the Molikpak platform.
Following the start-up of a system of offshore and land-based
facilities, the Sakhalin-2 project switched over to a year-round
production and shipment of oil from the specially built port of
Prigorodnoye on December 12, 2008. The second oil production platform
Piltun-Astokh-B began to operate at the same time.
After gas prrduction from the Lun-A platform began and following the
coming into operation of Russia's first plant for the liquefaction of
natural gas, the export of oil began to gain in scope resultatn of gas
condensate. A new petroleum mixture received the same name as the Sakhalin
Vityaz crude oil (SVCO) brand that has proved its worth over the past
decade.
In all, since the start of the commercial production of oil, the SEC
has produced and exported almost 17.2 million tonnes (126 million barrels)
of the SVCO to the market of the Asia-Pacific Region.
The SVCO is a low-sulphur petroleum mixture with a high content of
light and medium-light hydrocarbon fractions , from which gasolene,
kerosene, diesel fuel, and rawstuff for petrochemistry are produced.
The oil processing and energy companies of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan,
the United States, the Philippines, and Thailand became the purchasers of
the SVCO.

.Nazarov to brief NATO envoys on RF nat'l sec'ty concept.

BRUSSELS, July 22 (Itar-Tass) - Vladimir Nazarov, Deputy Secretary of
the Security Council of the Russian Federation, will participate in a
Russia-NATO Council meeting at ambassadorial level, which is to take place
at the headquarters of the Alliance on Wednesday, Dmitry Rogozin,
Permanent Representative of Russia at NATO, has told Itar-Tass.
Rogozin said Nazarov would brief the Ambassadors of 28 NATO
member-countries on Russia's new national security concept.

.Development of nukes by NKorea inadmissible--view.

KHABAROVSK, July 22 (Itar-Tass) - The recent nuclear test and rocket
launchings in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) give rise
to deep concern, Colonel-General Chen Bingde, Chief of the General Staff
of the Armed Forces, of the People's Republic of China, said here on
Wednesday during military and political consultations with his Russian
counterpart, General of the Army Nikolai Makarov. The consulations are
held within the scope of the Russo-Chinese joint exercises Peace
Mission-2009.
General Chen said, "Development by North Korea of nuclear weapons (of
its own) is inadmissible, for that would greatly aggravate the situation
on the Korean Peninsula and would bring about a convenient pretext for
South Korea, for its part, to provide itself with nuclear weapons, and for
the United States to intervene in the affairs of the region."
"China and Russia have taken up similar positions on the DPRK problem,
and come out in favour of a nuclear-free status of the Korean Peninsula,"
the Chinese military leader pointed out.

RF interested in PRC experience in ensuring Oly security.

KHABAROVSK, July 22 (Itar-Tass) - It must become one of new forms of
cooperation between Russia and China to share experience in drawing the
armed forces of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China into ensuring
security at the Olympic Games that were held in Beijing in the summer of
2008, General of the Army Nikolai Makarov, Chief of the General Staff of
the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, said here on Wednesdayt during
military and political consultations with his Chinese counterpart,
Colobnel-General Chen Bingde, within the scope of the Peace Mission-2009
joint exercises.
Makarov pointed out, " To the Russian side, the experience of the
Chinese colleagues will be of great interest for arrangements for and the
holdinn of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014".
Against the background of the complex situation in the world, "It is
required of us is to make maximum efforts to resolve security-related
matters and take adequate measures to counteract new challenges and
threats on the part of unlawful formations of various kinds," Makarov said.
The Russian general expressed hope that "efforts to further strengthen
strategic interaction between Russia and China, broaden and deepen
mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries in defence and
military-technical (cooperation) fields, and to add new substance to them
meet the interests of the two countries and their peoples and will
contribute to the maintenance of peace and stability in the region and in
the whole world".