Oil and gas authorities in Russia and Norway will share seismic data from the Barents Sea under a new agreement.
Russia will provide data that was collected in 2013 in the Fedynsky and central Barents Sea licences, in a zone 50kilometres from the demarcation line.
There will also be a line from the gas discovery on the Kildinskoye High. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has received a total of 6,500 kilometres of 2D seismic from these areas.
Russia has received 5900 kilometres of 2D seismic from the Norwegian side. This includes seismic data that the NPD collected in the northern Barents Sea in 2012, 2013, and 2014.
Stig-Morten Knutsen, assistant director for exploration at the NPD, said: “This agreement is extremely important. It allows us to achieve a better understanding of the regional geological conditions on both sides of the demarcation line and, not least, of geological structures that span across the line.”
NPD director general Bente Nyland and Yevgeny Kiselyov of the Russian Federal Subsoil Resources Management Agency signed the agreement in July.