In what can only be described as a pleasant holiday surprise, on December 23, 2019, Norway's Equinor (EQNR) announced that it will begin developing the massive Severo-Komsomolskoye oilfield onshore Siberia alongside Russian oil giant Rosneft (RNFTF). The two companies agreed to work together back in 2012 to explore four license areas in the Barents and Okhotsk seas, which are both off of the coast of Russia. However, this new project was not included in that original agreement, so presumably, the companies have since expanded its scope. The development of this field