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Oil firms must step up exploration in Norway’s Arctic, agency says

More than half of the northern part of the Barents Sea has not been opened to petroleum activities, and environmentalists strongly oppose drilling there.

By Nerijus Adomaitis, Reuters August 25, 2022
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OSLO—Oil companies in Norway must increase their exploration activity in remote regions like the Arctic Barents Sea to find the remaining reserves of oil and gas beneath the country’s oceans, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said on Thursday.

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