Cairn Energy is to team up with Norwegian group Statoil in their quest to look for oil off the coast of Greenland. Read the full story
Posted on 28 January 2012.
Cairn Energy is to team up with Norwegian group Statoil in their quest to look for oil off the coast of Greenland. Read the full story
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Posted on 23 January 2012.
Greenlandic authorities have opened bidding on oil prospecting licences to the east of the country for the first time. Interest is said to be strong, with over 70 oil companies attending the Greenlanders’ open meeting on the subject last month in Copenhagen. Read the full story
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Posted on 17 January 2012.
There was a significant risk of explosion alongside an Icelandic fjord this morning where a petrol tanker skidded off the road and began leaking its cargo over the tarmac and into the sea. Read the full story
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Posted on 13 January 2012.
Norwegian state oil producer Statoil ASA has announced a major oil find in the Barents Sea off the coast of northern Norway. Read the full story
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Posted on 29 December 2011.
It has been decided that nearly all the glass in house windows on Grímsey island will be replaced at the cost of the Icelandic state. Furthermore it is hoped the move will save the taxpayer money… Read the full story
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Posted on 11 December 2011.
Greenpeace has got one over on the top dogs of the oil industry after duping them into listening to a lecture about the perils of exploration in Greenland. Read the full story
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Posted on 07 December 2011.
Cairn Energy has yet again failed to find oil or gas at its wells in Greenland. The Scottish exploration company’s shares fell one percent on the announcement that another two dry wells are to be plugged and abandoned. Read the full story
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Posted on 17 November 2011.
British drilling firm Cairn Energy has seen its share prices increase after finally finding evidence of oil in one of its controversial Greenland wells. Read the full story
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Posted on 08 October 2011.
British oil company Cairn Energy has announced that it has again failed to strike black gold at its sixth controversial well off the coast of Greenland, angering environmentalists and worrying investors. Read the full story
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Posted on 08 September 2011.
Greenpeace campaigners have ripped apart Cairn Energy’s recently-published oil spill response plans, claiming the drilling company has vastly underestimated the effect of a potential disaster off the coast of Greenland. Read the full story
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