The Arctic hunt for oil and gas
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A small fishing vessel sailing by the huge gas flare at Melkøya LNG processing plant at Hammerfest in Finnmark, northern Norway. -
Tanker for liquid natural gas (LNG) outside Hammerfest in northern Norway. -
Melkøya gas processing plant on Norway's Arctic coast is producing LNG from the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea, the world's northernmost operational gas field. -
The Prirazlomnoye platform is in operation at Russia's first Arctic offshore oil-field. The field is located in the Pechora Sea, east of the Barents Sea. This photo of the platform is taken in the Kola bay. -
Sovcomflot's ice-classed oil tanker "Vasily Dinkov" in the Kola bay. -
The supertanker "Belokamenka" is used as a floating oil terminal in the Kola bay, serving Russia's Arctic oil transport routes. -
The oil platform Polar Pioneer in Tromsø. This platform has been used for oil and gas drilling all over the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea. -
The tow ice-classed oil-tankers "Varzuga" and "Indiga" are used to sail oil from Murmansk to Siberia along the Northern Sea Route. -
Super tankers loaded with oil can be risky business in Arctic waters.
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