Norway’s state-owned Statoil firm has signed a deal with Russian oil giant Rosneft to explore the sea around the Arctic.
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Norway and Russia team up for Arctic oil exploration
Posted on 14 May 2012.
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Cairn to keep Greenland and look elsewhere
Posted on 30 March 2012.
Cairn Energy has vowed to continue drilling for oil off Greenland, but says it will try to rebalance the risk by acquiring new, safer assets elsewhere.
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Cairn teams up with Statoil in Greenland
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.
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Greenland offering first east coast oil drilling licences
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.
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Fuel tanker crashes in Iceland, leaks into sea
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.
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Statoil announces big find
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.
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Icelandic government to replace all island windows free of charge
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…
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Greenpeace ambush oil execs into phony meeting
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.
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