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Human activities

Pollution

Thursday, 03 December 2009 09:49 C.D. Olseng (SFT), A. Rybalko (SMG), S. Boitsov (IMR), G.W. Gabrielsen (NPI), N.M. Jørgensen (Akvaplan-niva), R. Kallenborn (NILU), R. Kluge (SFT), A. Nalbandyan (NRPA), A. Zhilin (PINRO), G. Ilyn (MMBI)
Pollution

The Barents Sea is considered a cleaner environment than many other European seas, due to few local sources of pollution. However, for some types of pollutants there are well-known reasons to concern. Industries on the Kola Peninsula emit a wide spectrum of pollutants to the marine environment. The Barents Sea is influenced by pollution with origin outside the area which is transported into the area by ocean currents, ice drift or by the atmosphere.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 23 March 2010 09:56 )

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Pollution - Sources of pollution

Thursday, 03 December 2009 09:52 C.D. Olseng (SFT), A. Rybalko (SMG), S. Boitsov (IMR), G.W. Gabrielsen (NPI), N.M. Jørgensen (Akvaplan-niva), R. Kallenborn (NILU), R. Kluge (SFT), A. Nalbandyan (NRPA), A. Zhilin (PINRO)
Pollution - Sources of pollution

Oil and gas

Discharges and emissions from oil and gas activities mainly influence the levels of hydrocarbons, some heavy metals and radioactive substances in nearby water, sediment or biota and emission of greenhouse gasses to air (emmission and discharges are given in chapter Emission, operational and accidental discharges ). Oil and gas activity in the Barents Sea has so far been limited. However o...

Figure 2 .5.9. Routes of transfer for persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Routes of transport of pollutants in the arctic includes atmospheric transfer routes, ocean currents, riverine output and transpolar ice drifting. (Source: AMAP 2004).


Last Updated ( Wednesday, 03 February 2010 09:08 )

Pollution - Definition of pollution

Thursday, 03 December 2009 09:51 C.D. Olseng (SFT), A. Rybalko (SMG), S. Boitsov (IMR), G.W. Gabrielsen (NPI), N.M. Jørgensen (Akvaplan-niva), R. Kallenborn (NILU), R. Kluge (SFT), A. Nalbandyan (NRPA), A. Zhilin (PINRO)

In this report the term pollution refers to elevated levels (above natural background levels for naturally occurring substances and levels above zero for man-made synthetic substances) of oil components/hydrocarbons, radioactive substances and environmentally hazardous substances. In addition, noise (see chapter Pollution ), marine litter and ocean acidification are included.

Environmentally hazardou...

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 03 February 2010 09:00 )

Oil and gas activities - Historic development

Thursday, 03 December 2009 09:54 A. B. Storeng (DN), O. Korneev (SMG), A. Bambulyak (Akvaplan-niva Barents, Russia), B. Frantzen (Bioforsk), S. Lunde (KV), M. Novikov (PINRO),E. Olsen (IMR), A. Shavikin (MMBI), R. Storebø (OD), T. Sørgård (SFT), and O. Titov (PINRO)
Oil and gas activities - Historic development
Seismic surveys

The seismic surveys in the Russian part of the Barents Sea began in late 1960s. The process that was started consisted of 4 stages:

  1. until 1973:  the first reconnaissance transsections were done in the southern part of Pechora sea shelf
  2. 1972 -1978:  “Sevmorgeologia” conducted research on the entire southern side of the Barents Sea shelf, including Yuzhno-Barents (southern Barents) depr...

Last Updated ( Friday, 22 January 2010 12:02 )

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Oil and gas activities - Currents status of petroleum activities

Thursday, 03 December 2009 09:56 A. B. Storeng (DN), O. Korneev (SMG), A. Bambulyak (Akvaplan-niva Barents, Russia), B. Frantzen (Bioforsk), S. Lunde (KV), M. Novikov (PINRO),E. Olsen (IMR), A. Shavikin (MMBI), R. Storebø (OD), T. Sørgård (SFT), and O. Titov (PINRO)
Oil and gas activities - Currents status of petroleum activities

Currently, there are no production oil/gas platforms on the Russian side of the Barents Sea. On the Norwegian part there is one field in production (Snøhvit) and one field in the planning-phase (Goliat) (Figure 2.5.11).

Snøhvit

Snøhvit is a gas and condensate field with an underlying thin oil zone. The field is located in the central part of the Hammerfest basin, and is developed with subsea templat...

Last Updated ( Friday, 22 January 2010 12:02 )

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Status Report. The authors

Puffins in the Barents Sea. Photo NP 

More than 100 experts from a total of 9 Russian and 20 Norwegian institutions have participated in the preparation of the report, and the work has been organized in 13 expert groups. The work has been led by Sevmorgeo and PINRO on Russian side and on Norwegian side by the Institute of Marine Research and the Norwegian Polar Institute..

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The Russian - Norwegian cooperation

Waving kelp at the Norwegian coast. Photo IMR

BarentsPortal is a project developed under the Joint Russian - Norwegian Commission on Environmental Cooperation. The joint environmental report is a co-operation project between the Joint Russian - Norwegian Commission on Environmental Cooperation and the Joint Russian-Norwegian Fisheries Commission

Read about Joint Russian - Norwegian Commission on Environmental Cooperation (unfortunately only in Norwegian - please use web based translation)

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