International Association for Energy Economics | 19 The Geopolitics of Barents Sea Oil and Gas: the Mouse

• Main Authors: The Bear, Gunnar Austvik
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Barents Sea; Kara Sea; Moe; Norway; Leningradskoye; Novaya Zemlya; Pechora; Pechora Sea; Shtokmanovskoye; Snøhvit
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.631.2477; http://www.iaee.org/documents/newsletterarticles/Gunnar.pdf

Land and sea areas in the European arctic region are dominated by Norway and Russia. The first off-shore seismic surveys were undertaken on the Russian side in the 1970s, leading to the discovery of the giant fields Shtokmanovskoye, Ledovoye and Ludovskoye. Further south in the Pechora Sea many smal...