...local production manager, Dale Pittman, said his company supported local hire all over the world. At Exxon's Sakhalin Island facility in Russia, it worked hard to find qualified Russians to work there, he said. At similar hearing in Fairbanks...

...tourism on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Interest is increasingly focused, however, on the vast offshore oil reserves by Sakhalin Island, which many experts compare to Cook Inlet in the 1950s. "It is going to mean jobs for Alaska. You have to understand...

...equipment. How much work the facility will host largely depends on the development of the Russian oil fields off Sakhalin Island in the North Pacific. The Russian Far East is a strategic location for the Alaska oil and gas industry, Burke stressed...

...crude The Tesoro Alaska Petroleum Co. refinery in Nikiski received 415,000 barrels of crude oil this week from Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East. That came from the Sakhalin II offshore project, which Marathon Oil Co. operates for an...

...dazzling stained glass creations and some beautiful poetry. One of her watercolors hangs in a Russian museum on Sakhalin Island. Most recently, she became a driven knitter. She was also a valuable deckhand on the family fishing vessel the...