Drilling at Stangnestind was originally planned to take place in late 2019, but operations were postponed, reportedly because of the COVID-19. (iStock)
Warnings from climate experts notwithstanding, oil and gas exploration continues in the Barents Sea. Aker BP now prepares to drill at the Stangnestind just few kilometers from Norway’s border to Russia.
Semisubmersible rig
Deepsea Nordkapp was the last days of May moving towards the drill site located in the easternmost part of the Norwegian shelf. Aker BP has major expectations from Stangnestind, a part of a license obtained in 2016.
The well named after a mountain top on the Varanger Peninsula is located at 72 degrees North, just about ten kilometers from Norway’s maritime border to Russia. In addition to Aker BP, the license consortia includes Russian oil company Lukoil (20%), Equinor (20%) and Petoro (20%).
Winter holidays are not only about hot countries and Christmas markets. If visions of snowstorms warm your heart, this list of best cold weather travel destinations is for you. There is no reason the changing seasons should stop you from going into vacation mode – and cooler weather is often better embraced, not escaped.
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The Sámi on Camera
Photographs of the Sámi taken in the 19th and 20th centuries act as ‘emotional archives’, offering an alternative history of Europe’s longest surviving indigenous people.
Skolt Sámi man in Sevettijärvi, Inari municipality, Finland. Photograph by Ernest Dixon, 1950s. Courtesy of the Sámi Museum Siida, Finland.
At the end of the last Ice Age, more than 10,000 years ago, groups of hunter-gatherers ventured into northern Scandinavia, becoming the region’s first inhabitants. From southern Norway, the Fosna – descendants of the nomadic Ahrensburg culture in north-central Europe – followed the thaw north to the Arctic Circle and populated the coastline of the Norwegian Sea. Around 1,000 km to the east, another group of nomads inhabiting the southern shores of Russia’s Lake Onega and Lake Ladoga also moved north and west to settle in Finnish Lapland. Intermixing and establishing settlements, they would become Europe’s longest survivin