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Norway’s Arctic oil ambitions suffer setback as most promising well yields none

By Nerijus Adomaitis, Reuters August 29, 2017

OSLO — Norway’s hope of discovering a large oilfield in the Barents Sea has suffered a major setback after the far north Arctic‘s most promising reservoir turned out to contain only small amounts of natural gas.

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