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Northern Offshore Oil and Gas Resources: Policy Challenges and Approaches

From: Russia and the North

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The aim of this chapter is to assess the place of offshore petroleum development in the context of overall Russian energy priorities and to examine the evolution of offshore policy and strategy at both the federal and company levels.

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Arild Moe

Arild Moe is presently the deputy director and a senior research fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway. He has a cand.polit. degree from the University of Oslo with political science, Russian language and public law. His research interests include the Russian energy sector, in particular the oil and gas industry; the regional dimension in the Russian petroleum sector; offshore activities in the Barents Sea; Russian climate politics and oil companies and corporate social responsibility. He has also studied Arctic policy issues.

Elana Wilson Rowe is a senior research fellow at the Department for Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. She holds a Ph.D. from the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has worked on a broad range of issues relating to circumpolar and Russian politics, including climate change policy and the knowledge politics of international multilateral contexts. She is the co-editor of The Multilateral Dimension in Russian Foreign Policy (Routledge, 2009).