• Almost 10 years after Nicaragua instituted a second delimitation case against Colombia, with respect to the delimitation of the continental shelf beyond 200 nm, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a long-awaited (but surprising) judgment on 13 July 2023 , thereby concluding the case. (ejiltalk.org)
  • 12/09/2023 You can now download or order the new edition of the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate's shelf map. (npd.no)
  • 28/09/2023 The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted consent for start-up of the Breidablikk field in the North Sea. (npd.no)
  • 27/09/2023 DNO Norge is concluding the drilling of exploration well 25/7-11 S "Norma" in the North Sea. (npd.no)
  • 22/09/2023 Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre emphasises that both agencies are crucial in the effort to further evolve the Norwegian shelf, both within oil and gas as well as new industries. (npd.no)
  • 22/09/2023 Equinor Energy is concluding the drilling of exploration well 30/11-15 in the North Sea. (npd.no)
  • The Baltic Sea region remains 'tense' between Russia and NATO, Danish Defense Minister Morten Bodskov said. (zerohedge.com)
  • 1.4 ml/L). The Baltic Sea is increasingly affected by deoxygenation. (lu.se)
  • To place the ongoing environmental changes into a larger context and to further understand the complex Baltic Sea history and its impact on North Atlantic climate, we investigated a high accumulation-rate brackish-marine sediment core from the Little Belt (Site M0059), Danish Straits, NW Europe, retrieved during the Integrated Ocean. (lu.se)
  • Under customary international law, may a State's entitlement to a continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of its territorial sea is measured extend within 200 nautical miles from the baselines of another State? (ejiltalk.org)
  • Ultimately, the Court determined that, "under customary international law," a State's entitlement to a continental shelf beyond 200 nm "may not extend within 200 [nm] from the baselines of another State" (para. (ejiltalk.org)
  • 82 confirms that it is the legal regime of the continental shelf (within 200 nm) that negates the existence of an entitlement to a continental shelf beyond 200 nm of another State. (ejiltalk.org)
  • In other words, an entitlement to a continental shelf within 200 nm is stronger than an entitlement to a continental shelf beyond 200 nm. (ejiltalk.org)
  • However, it fails to consider the contradictory practice of several States that have claimed an entitlement to a continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles that extends within 200 nautical miles from the coast of another State in their submissions to the CLCS. (opiniojuris.org)
  • Judge Tomka analyses in great detail the above submissions to CLCS and even the pleadings of States before international courts and tribunals where States have expressly claimed an entitlement to a continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles that extends within 200 nautical miles from the baseline of another State. (opiniojuris.org)
  • Germany's North Sea coast is concave, while the Netherlands' and Denmark's coasts are convex. (wikipedia.org)
  • Article 6 Where the same continental shelf is adjacent to the territories of two or more States whose coasts are opposite each other, the boundary of the continental shelf appertaining to such States shall be determined by agreement between them. (wikipedia.org)
  • Due to its massive size, the Pacific Ocean consists of many marginal seas situated at the coasts of the continents of Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. (worldatlas.com)
  • The coasts of the northern archipelagoes are steep and high, with glaciers plunging down to the sea and accumulations of glacier-carried debris in the hollows. (britannica.com)
  • Barents Sea , outlying portion of the Arctic Ocean 800 miles (1,300 km) long and 650 miles (1,050 km) wide and covering 542,000 square miles (1,405,000 square km). (britannica.com)
  • The Barents Sea covers a relatively shallow continental shelf fringing the Eurasian landmass. (britannica.com)
  • The PGS data library offers great coverage in the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea, and the Barents Sea for new and near-field exploration in mature areas of the Norwegian Continental Shelf. (pgs.com)
  • This year, the predefined areas have been expanded by 92 blocks, with 78 in the Barents Sea and 14 in the North Sea. (pgs.com)
  • Meet and take pictures with the king of the Barents Sea, learn about this fascinating crustacean, and enjoy a delicious taste of king crab. (hurtigruten.com)
  • The hydraulic fracturing of shale to extract previously unrecoverable oil and gas is called fracking , and it is opening up a huge resource of natural gas in North America. (akdart.com)
  • Its price had risen as gas fields in North America and the North Sea began to run dry. (akdart.com)
  • Shipbuilding became a world-beating technology, setting the stage for the Viking Age in the years 800-1050 and the settlement of the islands in the North Atlantic and of Iceland and Greenland, with visits to the east coast of North America. (norges-bank.no)
  • Even consulting firms like McKinsey, which had gotten so addled on the Internet revolution that they bulked up and even took equity in lieu of fees (leading to hundreds of millions in writedowns) wound up shrinking its staffing in North America by nearly 50% over a two-year period. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • Exposure was found throughout North America and are associated highest in boreal caribou and increased from baseline with febrile illness and cases of neuroinvasive disease in polar bears after warmer summers. (cdc.gov)
  • Both JCV and SSHV have been identified nnual temperatures in the circumpolar Arctic as causes of arbovirus-associated neurologic diseases are rising at 2-3 times the global average, re- in North America ( 7 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The 4DEMON project was designed to build quality-checked, intercalibrated and integrated data sets on the marine environment in the Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS), and use this data for assessing environmental change in this area. (naturalsciences.be)
  • In the Belgian continental shelf, the occurrence of jellyfish swarms may be problematic for at least two reasons: tourism and marine ecology. (naturalsciences.be)
  • My research focuses on coastal and shelf evolution, and includes regional geologic framework, shallow geohazards and permafrost studies. (usgs.gov)
  • The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) is conducting geologic mapping of the sea floor to characterize the surface and shallow subsurface geologic framework within the Massachusetts coastal zone. (usgs.gov)
  • The Brazilian continental shelf is shallow, between six and 20 meters, while the depth in the North Sea is 60 to 80 meters. (evwind.es)
  • Norway's coastline is the longest in Europe, and the seas within its maritime borders are seven times larger in area than the country's land territory. (norges-bank.no)
  • Germany wanted the ICJ to apportion the Continental Shelf to the proportion of the size of the state's adjacent land, which Germany found to be 'a just and equitable share', and not by the rule of equidistance. (wikipedia.org)
  • She leads the USGS-partnership with the State of Massachusetts to geologically map the State's inner continental shelf. (usgs.gov)
  • They involved agreements among Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands regarding the "delimitation" of areas-rich in oil and gas-of the continental shelf in the North Sea. (wikipedia.org)
  • If the delimitation had been determined by the equidistance rule ("drawing a line each point of which is equally distant from each shore"), Germany would have received a smaller portion of the resource-rich shelf relative to the two other states. (wikipedia.org)
  • The piece is in reply to two articles published by MercoPress on June 3rd , Argentine hopes dashed on Falklands, Antarctica: Continental Shelf Commission refused to consider three major claims , and Delimitation of the Argentine continental shelf by Professor Peter Willetts. (mercopress.com)
  • Moreover, while assessing the generality of practice, the practice of specially affected States must be considered as held by the Court in the North Sea Continental Shelf judgment (para 74). (opiniojuris.org)
  • In the present judgment, the Court rightly gives weight to the practice of such coastal States whose continental shelf extends within 200 nautical miles of another State, for they are specially affected. (opiniojuris.org)
  • In the absence of agreement, and unless another boundary line is justified by special circumstances, the boundary is the median line, every point of which is equidistant from the nearest points of the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea of each State is measured. (wikipedia.org)
  • What are the criteria under customary international law for the determination of the limit of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured and, in this regard, do paragraphs 2 to 6 of Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea reflect customary international law? (ejiltalk.org)
  • The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982 governs our understanding of the extent of the territorial sea that is regarded as the sovereign territory of a coastal state. (films.com)
  • A publication of Decree 10,946/2022, of January 25, with guidelines for the generation of electrical energy on the high seas, generated a wave of optimism among companies and entities in the sector. (evwind.es)
  • Located in licence P.1792 in block 21/30f of the UK Central North Sea, the Evelyn field was acquired by Tailwind from Shell as part of its acquisition of a cluster of assets in the Greater Triton Area in 2018. (oilandgaspeople.com)
  • In May, in interviews with Radio Canada International, Canadian officials revealed that Canada plans to submit its Arctic continental shelf claim in 2018. (rcinet.ca)
  • Kröncke I, Becker L, Badewien Th H, Bartholomä A, Schulz A-Ch, Zielinski O (2018) Near- and Offshore Macrofauna Communities and Their Physical Environment in a South-Eastern North Sea Sandy Beach System. (senckenberg.de)
  • 79). It continued, "even if a State can demonstrate that it is entitled to an extended continental shelf, that entitlement may not extend within 200 nautical miles from the baselines of another State", (para. (ejiltalk.org)
  • 81) and, "regardless of the criteria that determine the outer limit of the extended continental shelf to which a State is entitled, its extended continental shelf cannot overlap with the area of continental shelf within 200 nautical miles from the baselines of another State" (para. (ejiltalk.org)
  • Under the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which Canada ratified in 2003, coastal states can claim up to 350 nautical miles of seabed if they can prove that the continental shelf is a natural prolongation of their landmass. (rcinet.ca)
  • Furthermore, if a coastal state can prove that a submarine elevation, an underwater mountain range that is connected to its continental landmass and is geologically identical to it, extends beyond 350 nautical miles from its coastal baselines, it could claim the seabed past the 350 nautical miles. (rcinet.ca)
  • Canadian scientists claim they have accumulated enough scientific evidence to prove that Lomonosov and Alpha-Mendeleyev Ridges, stretching under the Arctic Ocean from Canada and Greenland to Russia, are submarine elevations, thus giving Ottawa the right to claim the ocean floor beyond the 350 nautical miles limit all the way to the North Pole. (rcinet.ca)
  • In the map that was shown in the Press Conference held on March 28 to which Willets seems to refer, the limit is indicated in deep blue and it represents the continental shelf that goes beyond the 200 nautical miles which comprises an area of approximately 1.7 million square kilometres. (mercopress.com)
  • I have a broad range of interests in the physical processes that control I have a broad range of interests in the physical processes that control the environment in shelf seas and estuaries and their impact on biological and sediment processes in the water column. (bangor.ac.uk)
  • One drone flew within 50 meters of the Heidrun platform in the Norwegian Sea. (zerohedge.com)
  • Atmos Energy, the gas utility in North Texas, texted customers an emergency alert on Wednesday [2/17/2021] asking them to reduce usage. (akdart.com)
  • Back in 2021, Starmer told the Guardian that Labour would set a "hard-edged timetable" for ending oil and gas exploration in the North Sea, although he refused to say when this should happen. (carbonbrief.org)
  • Coastal erosion, intense storm events and sea-level rise pose threats to coastal communities and infrastructure. (usgs.gov)
  • Energy minister Terje Aasland explained the government is 'increasing security at infrastructure sites, land terminals and platforms on the Norwegian continental shelf. (zerohedge.com)
  • The Norwegian Continental Shelf remains highly prospective, with easy access to infrastructure and markets. (pgs.com)
  • A continental slope in the remaining area (about 70 percent of the total) deepens to the south and east to roughly 5,000 feet (1,500 metres). (britannica.com)
  • The species has a geographical distribution from the Mediterranean Sea to the coast of Norway. (marlin.ac.uk)
  • Becker L, Bartholomä A, Singer A, Bischof K, Coers S, Kröncke I (2019) Small-scale distribution modeling of benthic species in a protected natural hard ground area in the German North Sea (Helgoländer Steingrund). (senckenberg.de)
  • Currently I am much involved with my research group in making innovative measurements of turbulent processes in the shelf seas and in lakes and using the results to test hypotheses and models of vertical mixing. (bangor.ac.uk)
  • Continental Shelf Research 31(6): 594-610. (ioccg.org)
  • to translate properly founded scientific information and opinions from the research community into a policy designed to establish the most favourable balance possible between the various forms of exploitation of the North Sea and inform the public. (vliz.be)
  • More than 1.6 billion tons of sediments are annually received by the Yellow Sea, mainly from the large Yellow and Yangtze Rivers. (worldatlas.com)
  • Denmark/Federal Republic of Germany/Netherlands [1969] ICJ 1 (also known as The North Sea Continental Shelf cases) were a series of disputes that came to the International Court of Justice in 1969. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mechanisms controlling the intra-annual mesoscale variability of SST and SPM in the southern North Sea. (ioccg.org)
  • We analyse the spatial pattern of sea surface height variability (SSV) in the North Atlantic usin. (knmi.nl)
  • It cannot be otherwise since all of them are Argentine territories and therefore, according to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, they all have their corresponding maritime areas, including the continental shelf. (mercopress.com)
  • The reason why Canada will not be able to mount a successful claim to the North Pole is not because of the science, but because the law concerning the maritime boundaries will put the North Pole well off to the Danish side, Byers argued. (rcinet.ca)
  • On 28 May, the Sunday Times published a frontpage story stating that a "Labour source" had said that leader Keir Starmer planned to "block all new North Sea oil and gas developments" as part of his "green prosperity plan", if elected to power. (carbonbrief.org)
  • The museum presents historical developments from the first rigs drilling in the North Sea, via steel and concrete platforms developed and built in Norway, to flexible modern production ships and subsea systems which seem to be the future on the Norwegian continental shelf. (ecsite.eu)
  • Byers said under existing international law Canada has no legal footing for the North Pole claim even if it manages to prove that its continental shelf stretches all the way to the pole and beyond. (rcinet.ca)
  • The topography is varied, with fjords that cut deep into the mainland, and an outer coast that varies between exposed stretches of open sea and the more sheltered waters of the archipelago. (norges-bank.no)
  • TILES is devoted to the creation of a harmonised geological knowledgebase of the Belgian and southern Dutch part of the North Sea. (naturalsciences.be)
  • Securing international recognition of the outer limits of Canada's continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean is a Canadian priority," Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion said in a statement. (rcinet.ca)
  • The sea also hosts numerous marine mammals like spotted seals, finless porpoises, killer whales, minke whales, and false killer whales. (worldatlas.com)
  • According to Daily Mail , being the biggest supplier to the energy-stricken continent comes with risks, as the Scandinavian country's oil and gas rigs in the North Sea have been buzzed by mysterious drones. (zerohedge.com)
  • Mean sea level trends around the English Channel over the 20th century and their wider context. (co2science.org)
  • In the context of the "International Conferences on the Protection of the North Sea" and with a view to cooperating with other North Sea coastal states, this programme aimed to contribute to the management and sustainable development of the North Sea and its natural resources. (vliz.be)
  • This is a significant spill in the context of annual amounts of oil spilled in the North Sea. (ens-newswire.com)
  • The spokesman said, "Although small in comparison to the Macondo, Gulf of Mexico, incident, in the context of the UK Continental Shelf the spill is substantial. (ens-newswire.com)
  • aptain field is located on the UK Continental Shelf about 110 km north of Aberdeen, Scotland. (worldoil.com)
  • ABERDEEN, Scotland , August 15, 2011 (ENS) - The oil leak began on Wednesday, on a flow pipeline system that serves the Shell-operated Gannet Alpha platform in the North Sea. (ens-newswire.com)
  • The map shows all fields, discoveries, licensed area and area opened for exploration on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). (npd.no)
  • A Canadian icebreaker is setting sail Friday to collect scientific information to support Canada's submission on the extended continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean that could include a claim to the North Pole seabed. (rcinet.ca)
  • From the shores of the Arctic, Gulf of Maine, Mid-Atlantic and to the deep sea Laura has worked in teams that have geologically mapped tens of thousands of kilometers of the seabed using geophysical and advanced imaging data. (usgs.gov)
  • However, the advent of new drilling technology prompted Texaco North Sea UK Co., the field operator, to take a fresh look at the project. (worldoil.com)
  • It is bounded by the archipelagoes of Svalbard and Franz Josef Land (north), the Norwegian and Russian mainland (south), the Novaya Zemlya archipelago (east), and by the conventional border with the Greenland Sea (west), which runs from Spitsbergen to Norway's northernmost tip, North Cape, via Bear Island (Bjørnøya). (britannica.com)
  • The use of marine resources, combined with the use of the sea as a transport artery, has been crucial to the development of Norway's economy and society. (norges-bank.no)
  • Norway's oil history began in the mid-1960s, when negotiations on dividing lines in the North Sea had been completed. (ecsite.eu)
  • The seabed generally slopes from north to south, with a continental shelf along the northern and western margins to a depth of 650 feet (200 metres). (britannica.com)
  • It is bordered by Mainland China in the north and west and by North Korea and South Korea in the east. (worldatlas.com)
  • Relevant is that Denmark and The Netherlands, having ratified the 1958 Geneva Continental Shelf Convention, whereas the Federal Republic of Germany did not, wished that Article 6, p. 2 (equidistance principle) were to be applied. (wikipedia.org)
  • Original objects, models, films and interactive exhibits convey the history of oil operations on the Norwegian continental shelf. (ecsite.eu)
  • Although the questions posed by the Court do not explicitly refer to the relationship between the continental shelf beyond 200 nm and that within 200 nm (it merely refers to an area within 200 nm, but this could also refer to the EEZ rather than the continental shelf), the Court's conclusion in para. (ejiltalk.org)
  • Covering an area of 380,000 km 2 , the Yellow Sea is such a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean . (worldatlas.com)
  • The coastal regions of the Yellow Sea are very densely populated and more than 600 million people live in the sea's catchment area. (worldatlas.com)
  • But later in that same Conference, when the Recommendations adopted by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf by consensus were explained, it was made clear that the latter, in accordance with its Rules of Procedure, has deferred the analysis of the area under a sovereignty dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom. (mercopress.com)
  • The same procedure was followed in relation to the UK submissions on the Malvinas and on the North Sea area, where a sovereignty dispute also exists among the United Kingdom, Ireland, Iceland and Denmark. (mercopress.com)
  • Willets consists in not realizing that the limit of the continental shelf that becomes final and binding is only a portion of the total outer limit of the Argentine continental shelf, but that there is another area, as valid as the former, even though it cannot yet be considered final, due to the existence of the sovereignty dispute. (mercopress.com)
  • Except for the small area touching Hokkaido, the sea is completely enclosed by Russian territory. (britannica.com)
  • Norway, which produces oil from the North Sea, recently announced its largest find since 2000, a field with nearly 1.8 billion barrels. (icenews.is)
  • CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent will carry crew and researchers to Norway before travelling on to the North Pole. (rcinet.ca)
  • Norway is bounded on the south, west and north by ice-free seas, which in places cut right into the mountains. (norges-bank.no)
  • The North Sea and the western portion of the Skagerrak were always ice-free, and Norway was situated close to Europe's new economic centre of gravity: the Netherlands, Britain and France. (norges-bank.no)
  • In delimiting the boundaries of the continental shelf, any lines which are drawn in accordance with the principles set out in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article should be defined with reference to charts and geographical features as they exist at a particular date, and reference should be made to fixed permanent identifiable points on the land. (wikipedia.org)
  • The submission to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental shelf it is expected to include the North Pole, overlapping with both Russian and Danish submissions that also claim ownership of the planet's northernmost point, officials said. (rcinet.ca)
  • The Court bases its findings on State practice and opinio juris almost entirely on the submissions made to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) by the States parties to the UNCLOS. (opiniojuris.org)
  • North Cape with King Crab - A fun and tasty tour. (hurtigruten.com)
  • The tour starts from the town of Honningsvåg, the main city in the North Cape Municipality. (hurtigruten.com)
  • On this fun and tasty excursion, start by visiting the northernmost point of the European continental shelf - North Cape. (hurtigruten.com)
  • The North Cape plateau rises 1,014 feet out of the North Sea. (hurtigruten.com)
  • The visitor center, North Cape Hall, is a modern center where you can enjoy a movie in panoramic format about North Cape and the region throughout the four seasons. (hurtigruten.com)
  • Wheelchair accessible: Yes, at the North Cape. (hurtigruten.com)
  • But UK authorities say that Shell did not report the leak until Friday and by then more than 200 tonnes of oil had entered the sea. (ens-newswire.com)
  • The North Pole has 179 days without sun during the winter. (lu.se)
  • The Yellow Sea is also often referred to as 'Huang Hai' in China and as 'West Sea' in both North and South Korea. (worldatlas.com)
  • and Nampho port of North Korea. (worldatlas.com)
  • Since I am unconcerned with which category of weapons North Korea tested, let us operate under the assumption that it was the earlier. (thedailystar.net)
  • Yet, of the 44 nations, eight have yet to ratify the CTBT, with the United States and North Korea being two. (thedailystar.net)
  • North Korea, on the other hand, has been testing nuclear bombs since 2006. (thedailystar.net)
  • After measurements at sea, the data is subject to detailed study (corrections, controls and filtering) and modelling. (fgov.be)
  • I am also trying to apply understanding, acquired in the European shelf seas, to gain insight into the workings of other shelf sea regimes such as those in polar regions and in the tropics. (bangor.ac.uk)
  • Commissioned by the Continental Shelf Service, The Measurement Service Ostend of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences carries out the management and inspection of these devices, as well as the processing of the registered data. (fgov.be)
  • It is located at 71° north and it is a natural highlight on the journey. (hurtigruten.com)
  • The vessel will be helping Canadian researchers this summer as they collect data for their continental shelf claim. (rcinet.ca)
  • Data gathered from different regions (North Sea, Gironde, La Plata, Mediterranean) are used to test models to retrieve turbidity from reflectance. (naturalsciences.be)
  • The authors note that changes in global mean sea level (GMSL), as well as the possibility of an accelerating GMSL rise within the last few decades, are of great interest to both science and the public, as well they should be, in light of all the climate-alarmist rhetoric about global warming melting earth's ice caps and flooding the world with multiple meters of water. (co2science.org)
  • The Yellow Sea experiences a temperate monsoon climate. (worldatlas.com)
  • Snow, frost, water and ice - for many years researchers have studied the impact of climate change on the cryosphere, i.e. all the frozen water in the land and sea. (lu.se)
  • The Yellow Sea measures about 960 km from north to south and some 700 km from its east to west. (worldatlas.com)
  • The average temperature ranges between -10 °C to 3 °C in January from north to south and between 23 °C to 26 °C in July. (worldatlas.com)
  • In the first place, it is necessary to explain that the outer limit of the Argentine continental shelf comprises the shelf pertaining to the entire Argentine territory: continental territory, the Malvinas, South Georgia and Sandwich Islands and the Argentine Antarctica. (mercopress.com)
  • comprises the shelf pertaining to the entire Argentine territory: continental territory, the Malvinas, South Georgia and Sandwich Islands and the Argentine Antarctica. (mercopress.com)
  • Oil reserves in the South China Sea are valued at $1 billion. (films.com)
  • In addition to this, several Chinese rivers also discharge their sand and silt-laden waters into the sea. (worldatlas.com)
  • Where the same continental shelf is adjacent to the territories of two adjacent States, the boundary of the continental shelf shall be determined by agreement between them. (wikipedia.org)