TYPHOONS, earthquakes and a frozen sea make life difficult enough for the two consortia extracting oil and gas from beneath the Sea of Okhotsk, off the coast of Sakhalin Island in the Russian far east.

• 对于在俄罗斯远东地区库页岛海岸附近海域从鄂霍次克海下开采石油和天然气的两大财团来说，台风，地震和冰封的大海已经让他们日子够难过的了。