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Barents Sea

* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

Russian strategic bombers carry out scheduled flight over Barents Sea, TASS says

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at 13:46
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Two Russian TU-95M strategic bombers carried out a scheduled flight over international waters in the Barents Sea, which borders Norway,

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* Featured * Business Business (Russia) Featured • Zone 3 General News Russia 

Shadow fleet plays name game in Arctic waters

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, May 2, 2025 at 12:10
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The owners of the LNG tankers that have lied idle in the Russian part of the Barents Sea for almost

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* Featured * Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

Frigate in Barents Sea is manned by sailors with battle experience from Ukraine

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 14:59
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Servicemen on board the Admiral Kasatonov successfully applied their war experiences during a recent exercise in the Barents Sea, the Northern Fleet

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* Featured * Business Business (Norway) Featured • Zone 3 General Norway 

Norwegian gov. reshuffle puts electrification of Hammerfest LNG in jeopardy

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, February 6, 2025 at 11:27
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Plans to substitute power at Equinor’s Barents Sea plant from the gas turbines currently in use with renewable electricity from

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Norway) Featured • Zone 3 General Norway 

Norwegian coastal waters are getting warmer

The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, January 30, 2025 at 12:51
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By Elizaveta Vereykina Data collected over the past 90 years shows that temperatures are up to 2°C higher.  “It may not

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* Featured * Business Business (Norway) Featured • Zone 3 General Norway 

Only one new Barents Sea license to drill

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:11
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The Norwegians’ loud voices for the Barents Sea to become a new big oil province seems to fade out before

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* Featured * General Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

Upgraded nuclear missile sub conducts tests in icy waters

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 14:59
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After more than six years of upgrades, the old Bryansk will soon be sailing deterrence patrols in the northeast Barents Sea and

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

Putin oversees nuclear triad exercises from his bunker

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, October 30, 2024 at 13:39
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A Delta-IV class ballistic missile submarine in the Barents Sea participated as Russia’s anticipated large-scale nuclear drills took place on

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (USA) USA 

US warships sailed into the Barents Sea

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, October 24, 2024 at 10:45
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The two destroyers of the Arleigh Burke-class are the first US Navy surface warships to operate in the Barents Sea since

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* Featured * Business Business (Norway) Featured • Zone 2 General Norway 

Oil ship is on its way to Norway’s new Arctic field

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, August 30, 2024 at 15:58
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The 300 meter long FPSO will before year’s end be ready to give a boost to the country’s oil production

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Norway) Featured • Zone 3 General News Norway 

Plastic waste has increased in the Barents Sea, study shows

The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 12:04
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By Elizaveta Vereykina The majority of sea birds have microplastics in their stomachs, scientists report. There is an increasing amount

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Russia to begin artillery firing near Norway’s Grense Jakobselv

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, May 31, 2024 at 15:52
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The area closed for shipping and aviation is at the nearest just 4 nautical miles from where Russia’s land border

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Business Business (Norway) General Norway 

Norwegian company prepares for far northern drilling at disputed Wisting field

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 15:56
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As sea-ice in the northern parts of the Barents Sea retreats, the Norwegian oil company AkerBP sends a drilling rig

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Featured • Zone 3 Geopolitics Geopolitics (Russia) 

Submariners from Russia’s Northern Fleet fight and fall in Ukraine

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 15:06 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 15:09
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A significant number of sailors from the naval base towns in the Kola Peninsula are killed in Russia’s war of

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Norway) Featured • Zone 3 Norway 

Norway sends another oil rig to its remote Arctic waters

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, December 8, 2023 at 11:54
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On the 8th day of the UN Climate Conference, COP28, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate approved a new round of oil

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