Russian gas giant Gazprom has sent the first cargo with crude produced at the Prirazlomnoye offshore field — the country’s only Arctic offshore hydrocarbon project — to the international market, the company said Friday. “ARCO, or Arctic Oil, the new sort of crude produced offshore the Russian Artic has for the first time been supplied to the international market,” Gazprom said in a statement. The start of the Arctic crude deliveries has strengthened Russia’s role as an international oil supplier, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said in the statement. “We have raised the flexibility and stability of [Russian] crude supplies basically to any part of the world,” Miller said.