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Aker BP found no oil after drilling the Stangnestind-prospect just a few kilometers from Norway’s border to Russia in the Barents Sea.

They are among the world's biggest climate gas emitters. And they are trying to justify their huge new oil and gas projects in the remotest part of the planet.

Oslo issues its northernmost ever drilling acreage as part of a new license round.

Wells will this summer be drilled in the the Kara Sea and the Gulf of Ob.

The floating dock will be the largest in the Russian north with a capacity of 30,000 tonnes, enough to hold the new generation icebreakers of Project 22220.

"Are there any adults home?" Greenpeace asks rhetorically after the Norwegian Government on Wednesday announced this year's licensing round.

"We, ordinary people living in Nikel, are very happy. The air is fresh, leaves are green," says Tatiana Bazanova who has lived most of her adult life in what used to be one of Europe's most polluted towns.

Addressing an audience of international oil company leaders, Igor Sechin warns against a rapid shift to renewables, and makes clear that the world needs his Vostok Oil.

Population could increase with as much as one-fifth as ten thousand new workplaces will be created in Västerbotten and Norrbotten counties over the next few years.

There will not be an Arctic railway linking northern Finland with the Norwegian Barents Sea harbor in Kirkenes.

"Extract as much as you can," the country's top energy legislator says. But time might be about to run out for new major oil and gas projects on the Russian Arctic shelf.

Construction permit is granted for what will provide for high-tech digitalization of Russia’s entire Arctic coastline, from Murmansk to Vladivostok.