RUSSIA - Aug. 20 - Sakhalin Governor Missing.A Mi-8 helicopter carrying the governor of oil-rich Sakhalin Island Sakhalin Island Island, extreme eastern Russia. Together with the Kuril Islands, it forms an administrative region of Russia. It is 589 mi (948 km) long and a maximum of 100 mi (160 km) wide; it covers 29,500 sq mi (76,400 sq km). , Igor Farkhutdinov, and 13 other regional officials and 3 crew members, disappears during a flight from the Kamchatka peninsula Kamchatka Peninsula Peninsula, eastern Russia. It lies between the Sea of Okhotsk on the west and the Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea on the east. It is 750 mi (1,200 km) long and 300 mi (480 km) across at its widest point, and it has an area of 140,000 sq mi (370,000 sq km). to the Kurile Islands. The helicopter lost contact with air traffic controllers shortly after departing de·part v. de·part·ed, de·part·ing, de·parts v.intr. 1. To go away; leave. 2. To die. 3. from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. (Farkhutdinov was a key figure in negotiating deals with some of the world's biggest oil majors, including a Royal Dutch/Shell-led $10 bn project to build the world's largest liquefied natural gas liquefied natural gas: see under natural gas. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) A product of natural gas which consists primarily of methane. Its properties are those of liquid methane, slightly modified by minor constituents. plant and a $12 bn ExxonMobil-led project for a gas pipeline to Japan). Later it was reported that the helicopter crashed, killing all on board. |
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