ONR Scientists Explore Changing Arctic

This graphic compares the 30-year sea ice minimum average with the 2012 historical minimum, inside the red line. (United States Navy graphic)

Office of Naval Research (ONR) officials announced April 14 new efforts to determine the pace of change in what ...

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BSEE Participates in Arctic Council Task Force on Oil ...

BSEE Participates in Arctic Council Task Force on Oil Pollution Prevention

Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) Alaska Region Director Mark Fesmire traveled to Reykjavik, ...

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Gazprom Neft Joins Arctic Oil Spill Response Technology JIP

Gazprom Neft Joins Arctic Oil Spill Response Technology JIP

Gazprom Neft has become the first Russian company to join the Arctic Oil Spill Response Technology Joint Industry ...

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ION’s NarwhalTM Receives 2014 Spotlight on Arctic ...

ION's NarwhalTM Receives 2014 Spotlight on Arctic Technology Award

ION Geophysical Corporation announced that its new NarwhalTM for Ice Management software received a Spotlight on ...

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Fugro Receives Spotlight on Arctic Technology Awards

Fugro Receives Spotlight on Arctic Technology Awards

Organisers of the Arctic Technology Conference (ATC) have announced Fugro as the recipient of two 2014 Spotlight on ...

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Biologists: Amphipods Are Reproducing in Arctic Waters

Biologists Amphipods Are Reproducing in Arctic Waters

Biologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have for the ...

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Arctic Seafloor Releases Double Amount of Methane Than ...

Arctic Seafloor Releases Double Amount of Methane Than Previously Estimated

The seafloor off the coast of Northern Siberia is releasing more than twice the amount of methane as previously ...

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Wood Group Continues to Invest in Arctic Technology ...

Wood Group Continues to Invest in Arctic Technology Development

Wood Group has renewed its sponsorship of the Wood Group Chair of Arctic and Harsh Environment Engineering at ...

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Arctic Mooring JIP Launched in Houston

Arctic Mooring JIP Launched in Houston

Global Maritime and Kwan Engineering Services in Houston have launched an industry wide Joint Industry Project ...

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Ramboll Supports Ideas for Engineering Solutions in the ...

Ramboll Supports Ideas for Engineering Solutions in the Arctic

Ramboll Oil & Gas recently launched an innovation competition among its employees to float new ideas for ...

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Rosneft and ExxonMobil Establish Arctic Research Center ...

Rosneft and ExxonMobil signed final agreements establishing a joint Arctic Research Center (ARC) in Russia and an ...

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Superior Energy Gets Certificate of Acceptance for ...

Superior Energy Gets Certificate of Acceptance for Arctic Containment System

Superior Energy-Marine Technical Services (MTS), a division of Superior Energy Services, Inc., received its first ...

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USA: Statoil Reveals Concepts for Drillship Designed ...

On Tuesday, under the heading “Driving Innovation through Collaboration in the Rig Market”, Statoil ...

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NOAA Considers Effects of Arctic Oil & Gas ...

NOAA Considers Effects of Arctic Oil & Gas Activities on Marine Mammals

NOAA announced that it is seeking comments on a supplemental draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for oil and ...

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DOI Releases Disappointing Review of Arctic Ocean ...

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that Shell’s long line of problems and accidents during the summer ...

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The Netherlands: Bluewater Enters Competition for ...

The Netherlands Bluewater Enters Competition for Vernufteling 2013 Prize with Arctic Turret Design

Dutch Engineers society KIVI NIRIA, together with NL Ingenieurs and the magazine De Ingenieur yearly award a prize ...

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Deep Sea Researchers Receive Humboldt Memorial Award ...

Dr. Bodil Bluhm from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and deep sea researchers of the Alfred Wegener Institute, ...

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Markey Releases Safety Violations for Shell’s Arctic ...

Markey Releases Safety Violations for Shell’s Arctic Drilling Ship Identified by Coast Guard

One of two Arctic drilling ships employed by Shell Oil does not have proper propulsion to handle all expected ...

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Study on Rapid Changes in the Arctic Ecosystem

Study on Rapid Changes in the Arctic Ecosystem

Huge quantities of algae are growing on the underside of sea ice in the Central Arctic: in 2012 the ice algae ...

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Secretary Salazar Launches Expedited Assessment of 2012 ...

As part of its continued commitment to rigorous oversight of oil and gas activities in the Arctic, Secretary of the ...

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Sovcomflot Opens New Training & Engineering Centre ...

Sovcomflot Opens New Training & Engineering Centre for Projects in Arctic

Recently OAO Sovcomflot held a grand opening ceremony for its new training & engineering centre (TEC) in ...

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