US Gov preparing for oil exploration in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
The U.S. Interior Department on Thursday announced it is undertaking a series of construction projects to prepare for oil exploration
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Arctic oil
Blog – The automation of Arctic oil: Good for companies, hard for communities
Big Oil is often regarded as an industry of yesteryear, unwilling and slow to change with the times. In some
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Statoil starts controversial drilling in Arctic waters
With operations more than 400 kilometers north of mainland Norway, Greenpeace says it is the most controversial and aggressive drilling
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Mystery surrounds only oil well ever drilled in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
With oil development advocates again emboldened by the prospects of cracking open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a big secret that
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Russia ordered to pay €5.4 million for seizing Greenpeace vessel
An international tribunal formed under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea has ruled that Russia will have
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Blog: In the Arctic Ocean, an Alaska Native corporation seeks to fill void left by Shell
When Shell aborted its $7 billion Arctic drilling efforts in the Beaufort Sea in September 2015, environmentalists breathed a sigh
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Record oil volumes shipped out of Russian Arctic, says company
Twenty million tons of crude oil has been shipped out of the Russian Arctic in the last six months, shipping
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What environmentalists won by losing the Trans-Alaska Pipeline battle
In the late 1960s, the oil companies knew they needed a pipeline to get Prudhoe Bay oil to market, and they
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Trump administration launches plan to boost offshore oil development in Arctic and elsewhere
Less than two years after Royal Dutch Shell abandoned its offshore Arctic oil exploration program and triggered an exodus of other
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Statoil’s new Arctic project needs $30 a barrel oil prices to be profitable
The Johan Castberg will come on stream in year 2022 and prepare the way for the development of more northern
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Hilcorp makes oil industry’s first move in decades into federal waters of Alaska’s Cook Inlet
For the first time in decades, an oil company has put significant money into leases in federal waters of Southcentral
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Conservation groups girding for battle over National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska
Oil industry boosters and Alaska politicians are joining President Donald Trump’s administration to push for more development in an area
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Alaska lawmakers set to end cash subsidies for oil companies
JUNEAU — The Alaska Senate approved a House proposal Monday to repeal a cash-subsidy program for oil companies. But a
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Oil experts eye “significant resources” along Norway’s maritime border to Russia
The area, parts of which are located in ice-covered waters, could hold more than 2 billion standard cubic meters of
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Caelus claims offshore Arctic oil discovery that could rank among Alaska’s biggest ever
Caelus Energy Alaska said Tuesday it has made a “world-class” oil discovery that, if estimates prove true, could be one
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