Could Britain's soaring taxes push energy companies to Norway? Taxes on oil and gas profits have risen from 40% to about 78%, prompting several to think about pulling out.
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Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh
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Oil firms forced to consider full climate effects of new drilling, following landmark Norwegian court ruling
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UK and Denmark launch Viking Link underwater cable project – potential to transport enough electricity to power up to 2.5 million UK homes
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Norway's new gas field highlights tensions as COP28 climate talks open – new North Sea projects jar with push to phase out fossil fuels
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Wreckage likely belonging to a British submarine that sank during World War II was found off the coast of Norway
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Why does Norway want to extract seabed minerals – an explainer
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The world's largest floating wind farm is now officially open in Norway – and helping to power North Sea oil operations
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Viking Link joins UK and Denmark power grids for first time – 765km high-voltage cable joins Bicker Fen in Lincolnshire with Jutland in Denmark
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Denmark delays man-made energy island in North Sea due to high costs – more options for better and cheaper concept will be analyzed
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Norway under pressure to scale back fossil fuel expansion plans – campaigners say development of huge Rosebank field in North Sea would drive climate breakdown
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Project to store carbon dioxide 1,800 metres beneath the North Sea – Denmark is the first country in the world to bury CO2 imported from abroad
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Clues to the near-future behaviour of a warming Greenland, and perhaps even a warming Antarctic, buried under the North Sea
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As Europe searches the world for oil to replace Russian barrels, the Johan Sverdrup oilfield in the North Sea is helping plug the gap
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The construction of two energy islands off the coast of Denmark is being sped up to help wean the country off Russian fossil fuels
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UK has reached an agreement with Norway and the EU over how to divide fish stocks in the North Sea next year
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Norway is to introduce new traps to protect wild salmon after experts warned they could become endangered as a result of contact with their farmed counterparts
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World's longest undersea power connection was today switched on, allowing Norway and the UK to share renewable energy
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International seafood company Grieg Seafood leaked nearly 4,000 gallons of chlorine into a northern Norway fjord, killing approximately 96,000 fish
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Denmark's government has agreed to take a majority stake in a £25bn artificial 'energy island' which is to be built 80km offshore
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Norway may stop British and EU vessels fishing in its waters from January 1st – talks held up by London's protracted Brexit standoff with Brussels
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Denmark to end new oil and gas exploration in North Sea – decision is part of a plan to phase out fossil fuel extraction by 2050
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Coral discovered in uncharted Danish waters – a mapping project led by the conservationist Klaus Thymann has revealed a rich, varied habitat off the coast of Jutland
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Work has begun on Viking Link, the world's longest electricity interconnector which will allow power to travel between the UK and Denmark
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Denmark should end all future oil and gas exploration in the North Sea – it hurts Denmark's ambition as a front-runner in the fight against climate change
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A major project to transport natural gas from the North Sea to Denmark and Poland has taken a significant step forward
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Norway is postponing a decision on whether to allow companies to construct a new subsea power cable between it and Scotland
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Norway's new F-35 scrambled for first time to meet Russian anti-sub aircraft – by 2025 all F-16s will be retired and a new fleet of fifty-two F-35s will be fully operative
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Choppy waters of Brexit threaten Danish fishing – after Brexit the UK is taking control of its exclusive economic zone, stretching up to 200 nautical miles offshore
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Denmark plans $30 billion offshore wind island that could power ten million homes
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Klitmøller – Welcome to 'Cold Hawaii', Denmark's unlikely surf town
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Danish Rubjerg lighthouse moved inland on skates – coastal erosion from North Sea winds threatened to topple it into the sea
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Researchers in Norway have found a freshwater pond on the seabed outside the country's western coast
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Denmark fines Total for discharging chemicals into North Sea
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