俄明春将向联合国申请北极120万平方公里领土
Next spring, Russia will contact the United Nations to apply for
[control of] 1.2 million square kilometres in the North Pole region.
俄罗斯近年来对北极科考与开发加快脚步。2007年7月，俄科学家曾乘潜艇深入4000多米的北冰洋海底，放置俄罗斯国旗和时间胶囊以宣示主权。在2013年2月普京签署的北极开发战略规划纲要中，北极大陆架开发是其中的重点，目前俄第一个北极大陆架资源开发项目在去年底正式完工。该名为普里拉兹洛姆内伊的油田储量7200万吨，年产量可达660万吨。此外，俄军方还准备未来在俄北极领土建立13个机场和10个技术雷达站，以确保俄在“该地区的军事安全”。
In recent years, Russia has speeded up its pace in North Polar studies and development. In July 2007, Russian scientists in a submarine went more than 4.000 m deep to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, leaving behind a Russian flag and a time capsule to declare sovereign rights.
In February 2013, the outline of a strategic plan for developing the North Pole and which was signed by Putin [included] the development of the North Pole's continental shelf as its focal point. At present, Russia's No.1 item, the development of natural resources on the North Pole's continental shelf, [should have been] officially completed by the end of last year. [As to] the 72 million tons reserve of the Prirazlomnaya oil field, a yearly output of 6.6 million tons could be reached.
Editor's Note: The article uses a Chinese adaptation for the Russian name of the industrial oil platform Prirazlomnaya (普里拉兹洛姆内伊). The platform is being considered the first Arctic-class ice-resistant oil rig in the world.
Furthermore, Russia's future military plannings include the building of 13 airfields and 10 technical radar stations in Russia's North Polar territory in order to ensure Russia's "military safety in that region".
[Source: People's Network - Global News 人民网-环球时报 on October 31, 2014]
Some reliable background information on oil exploration in the Arctic region can be found in an article named "Arctic extraction presents huge potential but high risks", written by the Norwegian policy analyst Håvard Bergo. Here are a few relevant quotations from that article:
The Arctic was once of interest only to polar scientists and adventurers, but this is rapidly changing as a warmer climate is making the region increasingly accessible for resource extraction. Some studies estimate that the region contains close to a quarter of global unexplored petroleum resources, as well as substantial mineral reserves, including massive deposits of crucial rare earth metals in Greenland. Most of the region is already carved up, with the exception of the area around the North Pole itself.
The region is already important for the petroleum industry. In 2010, 10% of global oil production and 22% of natural gas production came from here. Russia is predicted to have the largest unexplored reserves (41% of total arctic oil resources and 70% of total natural gas resources), ahead of Alaska (28% of oil and 14% of gas) and Greenland (18% of oil and 8% of gas), leaving smaller but still significant deposits in Canada and Norway. Importantly, most undiscovered resources are presumed to be offshore, necessitating huge investments for exploration, drilling and infrastructure to make the projects commercially viable.
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Visitors from Novosibirsk in Russia, using different equipment and internet provider,
and who came from the same neighbourhood. They might even know each other !
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