This list of oil and gas field of the Barents Sea contains links to the major

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Barents Sea The Barents Sea ( , also ; no, Barentshavet, ; russian: Баренцево море, Barentsevo More) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territo ...

. The Barents Sea is bordered by the north

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n coasts, the Novaya Zemlya, Franz Josef Land and Svalbard archipelagos, and the eastern margin of the Norwegian Sea. In terms of hydrocarbon exploration, the area is divided into the Russian side on the East and the Norwegian side on the West, with the two also showing quite different petroleum geology. The Russian side contains a number of very large gas fields contained in Upper Jurassic

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structures, whereas the Norwegian side contains much smaller Middle-Lower Jurassic sandstone reservoirs bounded by fault blocks. Some of the largest discoveries were made in the 1980s but have still not been brought into production because of a combination of the extreme conditions, political instability and the historical low price of gas.

List of fields

Norway

* Snøhvit field - The first offshore field to be brought into production in the Barents Sea, includes Snøhvit, Askeladd and Albatross discoveries. * Johan Castberg field - Formerly Skrugard-Havis field. * Goliat field - First oil field to be discovered in the Norwegian side of the Barents Sea.

Russia

Shtokman field The Shtokman field (also ''Stockman field''; russian: Штокмановское месторождение), one of the world's largest natural gas fields, lies in the northwestern part of the South Barents BasinLindquist, Sandra J"South and N ...

- a giant gas field. *

Prirazlomnoye field Prirazlomnoye field is an Arctic offshore oilfield located in the Pechora Sea, south of Novaya Zemlya, Russia, the first commercial offshore oil development in the Russian Arctic sector. The field development is based on the single stationary ...

* Ludlovskaya field * Murmanskoye field * Ledovoye field

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List of fields

Norway

Russia

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