31 Aug 2011 With current oil reserves coping with increased pressure from emerging markets in China and India, the Arctic and its seas are seen as being of 4 Feb 2014 Sea ice melting partly because of human-caused climate change could open previously inaccessible Arctic Ocean waters to expanded oil 21 Mar 2013 Neither the oil and gas industry nor its regulators are adequately prepared for Arctic offshore drilling operations. Furthermore, climate change is 12 May 2015 The U.S. just gave Shell conditional approval to drill for oil off Alaska. Here are 5 reasons why that's a bad idea. 9 Jan 2014 Until very recently, the Arctic has been closed to off-shore oil exploration and drilling because of sea ice. With the changes in the Arctic Ocean, It is an oil spill in my own backyard of the Santa Barbara Channel. our petition demanding that Shell Oil stop their disastrous plans to drill in the Arctic Ocean. Summary of oil and gas exploration and development in the Arctic and of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas from new offshore oil and gas drilling, under authority
President Trump wants to allow devastating offshore drilling in the Arctic's Beaufort Sea – home to more than half of the U.S.'s polar bears. Add your voice now to
Offshore oil exploration, drilling and production can disturb the fish and WWF has mapped the enormous potential reach of an oil spill in the Barents Sea. 4 Sep 2019 The Trump administration wants to sell leases to drill in the Arctic of ANWR and especially in the sensitive Beaufort and Chukchi seas. The oil giant had planned to drill several exploratory wells in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas. Several setbacks, including the grounding of its Kulluk drilling rig, 30 Mar 2019 A federal judge in Alaska has reinstated a ban on oil-and-gas drilling in vast swaths of the Arctic Ocean, potentially undermining a central part 28 Aug 2015 Due to climate change, the Arctic sea ice is melting in an alarming rate. Because of this change the Arctic drilling season is limited to a the few
The Arctic Ocean is one of the most pristine and fragile places left on the planet— and it's in trouble. In January, the Trump administration called for the removal of
4 Sep 2019 The Trump administration wants to sell leases to drill in the Arctic of ANWR and especially in the sensitive Beaufort and Chukchi seas. The oil giant had planned to drill several exploratory wells in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas. Several setbacks, including the grounding of its Kulluk drilling rig,
Summary of oil and gas exploration and development in the Arctic and of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas from new offshore oil and gas drilling, under authority
4 Jan 2018 Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise ship sails next to Statoil's Songa Enabler oil rig during a protest in the Barents Sea, Norway, July 21, 2017. 24 Oct 2017 Estimated oil and gas volumes in the European Arctic. The more favorable the pre-drilling conditions are in terms of the size of fields, the distance Environmental Impacts of Oil and Gas Drilling in the Arctic 26 Thus it is not enough to know about, say, sea ice and Iñupiat culture without also knowing how 7 Jul 2016 Arctic Standards for Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling oil and gas exploration to improve safety and help prevent spills in the U.S. Arctic Ocean. 31 Aug 2011 With current oil reserves coping with increased pressure from emerging markets in China and India, the Arctic and its seas are seen as being of 4 Feb 2014 Sea ice melting partly because of human-caused climate change could open previously inaccessible Arctic Ocean waters to expanded oil
27 Feb 2020 Arctic drilling operators can't accurately pinpoint polar bear dens rubble ice in the Alaska portion of the southern Beaufort Sea in 2011.
Using a supposedly ice-resistant platform, Russia has already begun drilling in the Arctic Ocean at the Prirazlomnoye oil field in the Pechora Sea off western Siberia. These developments, experts warn, may be just the beginning of oil exploitation in a region that is unprepared to handle oil spills of any size. But that sea ice movement prevents us from having normal oil and gas activities using tankers, it's just not possible, so we decided to have the export point here on the south of the island.' Ryan takes up the tale. 'On Lunskoye we are drilling gas wells - the biggest gas wells in the world,' he continues.