Barents Observer

The German company Bremenports has concluded an agreement with Icelandic authorities and the Icelandic engineering company Elfa on a feasibility study of a large, deep-water harbor to facilitate international Arctic shipping and petroleum activity.

How large the impact from an oil spill occurrence is, depends on how quickly the clean-up begins. While operational crews before had to take notes using pen and paper and manually log the data in a map solution, they can no do registrations through a mobile application that makes the data accessible for the operation manages in real-time.

Russia will establish a major new media resource aimed at promoting Russian national interest in the Arctic. The new state-sponsored media will help ”focus the whole flow of information about the Arctic,” Russian Deputy PM Dmitry Rogozin said in this Monday’s meeting in the State Commission on the Arctic.

”We will continue to publish good Barents stories as long as we can” ”We are one less person, but will do our best keep up our work with BarentsObserver”, editorial staff members Trude Pettersen and Atle Staalesen say.

Chinese companies will provide a lion’s share of the technology needed for Russian offshore energy projects, the government plans.

The United States' new round of sanctions on Russia could force Exxon Mobil Corp. to alter its ongoing drilling in the Kara Sea by Sept.26.