Thomas Nilsen

Hauge: Mongstad closure should be lesson learned for Barents Sea oil debate

Norway closes gas power plant after big losses.
February 16, 2017

Goliat oil: On-off-on-off-on-off

Eni’s Barents Sea oil production is back offline.
February 12, 2017

Mayors of cross-border cooperation

"I don't think there are any cities we have more contact with than Murmansk," says Kirkenes Mayor Rune Rafaelsen.
February 10, 2017

Wallström to talk Barents in Moscow

Swedish Foreign Minister with first visit to Moscow in three years.
February 10, 2017

January sea ice extent record low in Barents- and Kara Seas

Arctic alarm: Svalbard measured 3°C Friday morning. That is the same as in Paris 3,300 km further south.
February 10, 2017

Brende partly positive to Russia's "Barents Davos" initiative

More arenas for discussions in the north is positive, says Norway's Foreign Minister
February 09, 2017

Norway, Russia border traffic up 10%

In times of political tensions between Oslo and Moscow is normal citizens’ travel across the border in the high north sharply up.
February 09, 2017

Russia aims for «Barents Davos» in Murmansk

First Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Titov with fresh initiative for the 25th anniversary of the Barents Cooperation.
February 07, 2017

The masts on Andrey’s new yacht is taller than hotel Arktika

Andrey Melnichenko owns the port of Murmansk and EuroChem’s mining subsidiary on the Kola Peninsula.
February 07, 2017

Gazprom to resume Kara Sea drilling

Announces tender for rig, supply and service vessels for drilling the Leningradskaya gas field.
February 07, 2017

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Thomas Nilsen is editor of the Independent Barents Observer with its news desk located in Kirkenes, northern Norway. He has a long experience in media cooperation across the borders in the high north of Europe, both as radio- and newspaper reporter all the way back to the days before the breakup of the Soviet Union. 

Nilsen has been editor of Barents Observer since 2009.

He was Deputy Head of the Norwegian Barents Secretariat from 2004-2009. Until 2003, he worked 12 years for the Bellona Foundation’s Russian study group, focusing on nuclear safety issues and general environmental challenges in northern areas and the Arctic. 

Thomas has been traveling extensively across northern Scandinavia and Arctic Russia since the late 80’s working for different media and organizations. He is also a guide at sea and in remote locations in the Russian north for various groups and regularly lectures on security issues, environmental and socio-economic development.

Thomas Nilsen studied at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

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