Disturbing the sound of silence (Photo: Sovcomflot) As workplaces, ships must live up to tight regulations for how much noise their crews are exposed to. One key way of doing this is the guidelines, adopted in 2012 by the IMO, the UN agency that sorts out the minutiae...
Breaking up is easy to do (Photo: Nukissiorfiit) When Greenland’s capital city, Nuuk, was struck by four days of intermittent power outages starting on 29 November of last year, the most important concern was finding what went wrong and getting the lights back on as...
More than a broken-windows problem (Photo: Alec Luhn) A quarter of the soil in the Northern Hemisphere is permafrost, a lot of it above the Arctic Circle, where temperatures are now reported to be rising at thrice the global average. That may prove a costly cocktail....
The internet stops here (Photo: Space Norway) Since 2003, a set of parallel fibre-optic cables known as the Svalbard Undersea Cable System has delivered high-speed internet to the Norwegian-administered archipelago from the country’s mainland. Installed with the...
This is a job that calls for an FPSO (Photo: Eni) Norway’s oil regulator presented its annual status of offshore activity on Thursday. It was a very good year. High production levels, high demand and, in particular, high prices for gas, mean that, during the final...
