Norway, which awarded 26 licences for the Barents and Norwegian Sea in January, plans to issue more for the eastern Barents Sea early next year.

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The group follows the migration of mackerel from the Norwegian sea, past Shetland and down the west coast of Ireland and Britain possibly as far as the Portuguese coast.

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Aberdeen-based Faroe said it was targeting its Clapton prospect in the Norwegian North Sea.

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The only big offshore Arctic production site is the Snohvit gas field in the Norwegian Barents Sea, opened by Statoil in 2007.

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The big uncertainty in Talisman's third quarter results comes from the Yme platform in the Norwegian North Sea, which was evacuated in July for safety reasons.

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The group, which focuses on oil and gas exploration, primarily in the UK and the Norwegian North Sea, reported a dramatic boost to production, proven reserves and cash flow last year.

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To see my artwork floating on Norwegian Breakaway out at sea will be a dream come true.

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One of the largest oil discoveries in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea in recent years is bigger than initially thought, explorer Cairn Energy has revealed.

BBC: Cairn Energy raises North Sea oil field estimate

These beaches made Suchen think of a ragged shoreline in Ireland or the clashing waves of the North Sea at the mouth of a Norwegian fjord.

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It also sold its Chroma multi-airport operational database to Norwegian airport operator Avinor and supplied Milan Malpensa operators SEA with a Bluetooth queue measurement system.

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For the purposes of floating wind farms, such turbines are not light enough, they are too tall and the rotor blades are too small, according to Mr Bratland's early assessments, made even before the 2.3 megawatt turbine has started delivering electricity through the sea-bed cable that connects it to the Norwegian national grid.

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According to some estimates the bedrock beneath the Greenland Sea could hold more oil than the North Sea, which has partially powered the British, Dutch and Norwegian economies for decades.

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And Statoil, a large Norwegian oil and gas company, performs a similar trick at two places in the North Sea.

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