Rosneft has organized the Kara Summer 2016 expedition that will establish the first Arctic scientific outpost, the corporate website reports. A scientific expedition ship carrying members of the expedition will sail for 60 days from the Barents Sea to the East Siberian Sea and along the Arctic coast.

"The expedition will establish Rosneft's first scientific base in the Khatanga Gulf. The base will monitor climate year-round and study ice in the Laptev Sea during the winter. We plan to start building and equipping the living quarters by the end of 2016," the company reports.

The base will be used as the company's scientific outpost in the Arctic region, where researchers will develop and test new technologies, equipment and materials for use in the Arctic weather, and for geophysical and animal monitoring projects. The base will include a stationary meteorological station and three automatic buoys, with scientists conducting oceanographic projects.

Apart from studying the hydro-meteorological and oceanographic parameters of Russian Arctic seas, researchers will conduct experiments on changing the trajectory of icebergs' drifting.

Scientists plan to complete the study of glaciers on the Novaya Zemlya and Severnaya Zemlya archipelagos, the De Long Islands and Franz Josef Land, Rosneft reports. Special self-contained sensors will be installed on icebergs to monitor drift parameters and coordinates. Seismicity levels will also be monitored at licensed sectors in the Laptev Sea, and teams will conduct maintenance on six existing automated meteorological stations.