... Jupiter and West Alpha may be up, but even so this reflects the slow economic climate. That said, Russia still easily maintains its leading place for the foreseeable future as its production of hydrocarbons since 2005 has not been outmatched in the Arctic. USA has peaked in the 1990s, but its 9 Alaskan fields are now in sharp decline and Norway’s Snovhit Field is not matching the Russian spike in production as it is only producing single digits output vs. 45 million tons extracted by Russia. In fact,...
... Zones, but it will oppose any extended continental shelf claims that exceed these EEZs. China is likely to dispute Russian and Canadian claims to sovereignty over their seaways, in which it could potentially get support from the European Union and the USA. [14]
However, scholars say that China should be cautious in asserting claims to the Arctic Ocean. The notion that the polar waters should be international territory might be turned against its own claims to sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, the Senkaku and Diaoyu Islands and even the island state of Taiwan.[15]
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At the same time as the Pentagon released its first Arctic Strategy with the goal of protecting U.S. interests in the region and saving the region’s environment, Russian officials, academics, businesses and environmentalists are preparing for an international conference, “The Arctic: Region ...
... international conflict over oil and gas. The Cold Response of 2012 became the largest exercise in recent years, with 16.3 thousand servicemen from 15 countries taking part in it (10 thousand in 2006, 8.5 thousand in 2007, 7 thousand in 2009, and 8.5 thousand in 2010)
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. The announced objective of the exefrcise was deployment and engagement of armed forces in the Arctic to forestall a wide range of menaces – from high-intensive means of warfare to terrorist threats and mass street action. There are grounds to expect that the Alliance’s military activities in the Arctic region will further intensify....
... (“Daryal” type radar). Anti-aircraft missile battalions were deployed from the Chukotka Peninsula to the Kola Peninsula.
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The United States had no large surface ships in the Arctic Ocean. The Pentagon created a limited infrastructure in the subarctic region. American combined-arms base (6-8 thousand troops) was established in the Canadian town of Churchill (Hudson Bay). The 11th Air Force of the United States Air Force was placed in Alaska. U.S. airbases Thule (Greenland) and Keflavík (Iceland) were opened for the needs of the 3rd and 17th ...
... urgent for Russia to build a policy of cooperation with such influential countries as the United States. Is there any potential for such cooperation? Or is the US focused on a unilateral course of action in this region?
What the Arctic means for the USA
The Arctic coast of the United States is in Alaska, whose continental shelf, according to the National Geological Survey, has about 31% of undiscovered oil reserves of the entire Arctic, which amounts to 27 billion barrels. Gas is also expected to be found ...
