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Barents Sea

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

Slowdown in Barents Sea petroleum

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 09:31
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Norwegian Government offers only two new production licenses for the Barents Sea this year. The hunger for Barents Sea oil

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

Large areas of Arctic seabed damaged by trawlers

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 15:38
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The Norwegian marine researchers that set out on an Arctic expedition this summer expected to find large areas of untouched

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Featured • Zone 3 Newsroom Picks • zone 1 Politics Politics (Russia) 

Northern Fleet kicks off large Barents-Arctic naval exercise

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, August 19, 2022 at 11:10
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Surface warships, submarines and aviation are involved in waters from the Kola Peninsula to Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya.

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Featured • Zone 3 Politics (Norway) Politics (Sweden) Society 

Scandinavian fighter jets in joint training with American B-52 bombers above Arctic Circle

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 15:08
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Simultaneously as Russia’s Northern Fleet kicks off a larger exercise in the Barents Sea is NATO flexing muscles in the

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Politics Politics (Russia) 

UK denies violation of Russian airspace over the Barents Sea

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 10:00
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“The UK aircraft was in communication with Russian civilian air traffic control and its crew operated in a safe and

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Russia accuses British spy plane of violating airspace north of Kola Peninsula

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 10:24 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 10:53
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British RC-135 with equipment to collect real-time electronic intelligence data was forced out of Russian airspace by a MiG-31, the

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

Duma speaker instructs Foreign Affairs Committee to review Barents Sea treaty

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, July 6, 2022 at 09:49
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Speaker of Russia’s Parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, wants a study on possible options of denouncing the 2010 Treaty with Norway concerning

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Environment Environment (Norway) General Newsroom Picks • zone 2 Norway 

Warmest June ever at Svalbard

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, July 4, 2022 at 09:38
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Average temperature at Svalbard airport Longyearbyen was 6,0°C, which is 2,4°C above average for June and the warmest ever recorded.

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

Heatwave across northern Scandinavia

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, June 30, 2022 at 09:06
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Temperatures surpassed 30 degrees Celsius across northern Scandinavia on Wednesday and many metrological stations hit new record high temperatures for

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Business Business (Norway) Featured • Zone 1 News 

Second Barents Sea oil discovery this spring

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 11:19
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Operator of Skavl Stø exploration well, Equinor, announces the finding of more oil just two weeks after last significant discovery in the

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Business Business (Norway) Featured • Zone 2 News Norway 

First tanker in 20 months embarks to energy hungry Europe

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 15:57 — Last Updated: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 16:17
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Norway’s role as a stable and predictable supplier of natural gas to Europe is pushed forward by dictator Vladimir Putin’s

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

Equinor makes significant Arctic discovery

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, May 27, 2022 at 13:22
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Well drilling reveals up to 50 million barrels of recoverable oil at Snøfonn Nord, near the Johan Castberg field in

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* Featured * Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Geopolitics News Norway Politics 

Russia issues largest warning zone in Norwegian Barents Sea “since Cold War”

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 10:44
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“Impact Area for Russian missiles” reads the warning covering an area from the Varanger fjord in the east almost to

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

Northern Fleet stages war games to protect Arctic shipping

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 at 13:18
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The Barents Sea naval exercise will train coordinated combat actions between ships, submarines, aircraft, air defense units and garrisons of

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

Russia’s Northern Fleet exercise area overlaps into Norway’s EEZ amid Europe tensions

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, January 21, 2022 at 09:09
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Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) alert warnings show the scoop of actions with naval weapons in the Barents Sea for the

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