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Norway offers Arctic oil drillers a big opening near protected Svalbard waters

Some of the blocks extend north of the 74th parallel.

By Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer June 20, 2018
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Norway announced the opening of nine new petroleum exploration licenses in the Barents Sea, including some areas near the protected waters off Svalbard and Bear Island.

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