First Arctic Oil Shipment in Norwegian Sea

Greenpeace is tracking the world's first shipment of Arctic oil. Russian tanker Mikhail Ulyanov is headed for Rotterdam with its load of oil produced at the Prirazlomnaya platform. The platform is operated by Russian state owned energy company Gazprom and is the first to begin producing oil from icy offshore waters in the Arctic. The platform was the scene of a high profile protest in September 2013, which led to the imprisonment of 28 Greenpeace activists and two freelance journalists. The “Arctic 30”, as they became known, spent two months in Russian prisons on charges of piracy and hooliganism, before being freed under the terms of an official amnesty.