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It is the Russian subsidiary company ROSNEFT is taking a share in. Business wise it is a good deal for BP I think. While their are contraventions around fracking, drilling in the arctic will not have any environmental impacts drilling in a temperate zone will not have. If it is the Russian arctic, sure, the Russians have form for not really looking after nature in their country.

I expect the deal will have been done for reasons to share technology.

Russia has four or five times the oil reserves that the USA have anyway. Better the west buys it than China.