Encouraged by recently opened areas and potentially huge yet-to-be-discovered resources, oil companies launched a record exploration drilling campaign in Norway’s Barents Sea this year. But as the ...

Warm, salty water from the Atlantic has been pushing farther into the Arctic through the Barents Sea for decades, a process scientists call atlantification. A new study argues the missing clue is not ...

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The latest 3D seismic surveys suggest that there may be billions of barrels of undiscovered oil in the Barents Sea, according to a geology and geophysics expert in an interview with Norwegian ...

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Russian trawlers are seen the Norwegian arctic harbour of Kirkenes. The oil and gas majors are looking to the promise of the Barents Sea, attracted by Norway's political stability against a backdrop ...

The Barents Sea system – gateway to the changing Arctic provides an overview of the interconnected elements of the Barents Sea, from microbes living in the sediments to seabirds at its surface, from ...

A recent study by researchers in Norway shows that the northwest Barents Sea warmed substantially during the last decades. The temperature of the subsurface Atlantic Water in the northern Barents Sea ...

Barents Sea exploration in 2015 has several advantages to earlier times. The previously disputed eastern area provides a new frontier basin for Norway, and committed exploration companies, especially ...