Blog: Alaska ships its first oil to Asia in a decade
On September 26, ConocoPhillips‘ Polar Discovery departed the Valdez Marine Terminal in Alaska for Yeosu, South Korea. Valdez is where the Trans-Alaska Pipeline,
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Oil prices dive, Arctic projects could be at risk
North Sea crude trading prices are now the lowest since June 2012. On Monday morning the price had reached USD
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Finland food prices to drop due to Russian sanctions
Cheap food imports such as meat and dairy products are flowing into Finland, strengthening the market competition and leading to
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Finland’s Lapland tour industry gears up for busy holiday season
It may feel like summer just ended, but it’s only six weeks until the Christmas flight season begins in northern
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Disappointing result in Rosneft’s first Norwegian well
The drilling of the Pingvin well in the Barents Sea did not prove suffient hydrocarbons for further field development. The
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Blog: Northern Sea Route – Open for business?
Russia’s Northern Sea Route Administration has received 604 applications for transits this year. The bulk of sailings take place on the
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Kara Sea oil discovered a week before sanctions hit
Exxon and Rosneft have found oil at the first well drilled, but the unanswered question is how to exploit it
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Feature Interview: The environmental and social impacts of Arctic tourism
The changing Arctic climate has opened up business and economic opportunities in everything from resource development to shipping. Arctic tourism
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Thunderstorms in Arctic Sweden cost mining company
The intense thunderstorms in Sweden this summer cost mining company LKAB hundreds of millions of kroner, due to forced standstills.
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Blog: With Keystone XL delay, Alberta, Canada looks North
Keystone XL, the $5.4 billion, 1,897-kilometer pipeline that would transport crude oil from the Alberta tar sands across the border
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Hotel in Arctic Russia comes back to life after major facelift
After five years of renovation, the Murmansk landmark hotel reopens its doors. The owner of the building, the Azimut Hotel
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Alaska: LNG project advancement raises question of pipeline coordinator’s role
With the federal environmental review process recently launched for a massive Alaska liquefied natural gas project, the federal gas pipeline
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In time of sanctions, Prirazlomnaya seeks Russian suppliers
Production proceeds as planned, but parts of equipment and services will be replaced by Russian suppliers, a top leader of
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Russia: $600 million Kara Sea drilling could be shut down
The United States new round of sanctions on Russia could force Exxon to alter its ongoing drilling in the Kara
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Russian sanctions put tons of Swedish cheese in peril
Thousands of tons of Swedish cheese are sitting in warehouses after being banned from Russia. Swedish cheesemakers have applied to
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