Tullow Oil is confident of hitting a "major new commercial oil resource" off the coast of Norway; one of the company’s few high- potential asset regions outside of Africa.

Greenpeace activists have boarded two offshore drilling rigs in a protest against oil and gas exploration in Arctic waters.

Fire has broken out on a Russian nuclear submarine undergoing repairs, but no injuries or radiation leaks have been reported.

Tullow Oil discovered its first crude off Norway after at least 10 unsuccessful wells this year.

IN January 2007, a strange bird was seen on the sea off Farnham in Yorkshire.

COD, once the staple of fish-and-chippers both here and in Britain, is in danger of becoming extinct in the North Sea, but there’s hope closer to home.

THE fire safety system on a Russian nuclear-powered submarine malfunctioned on a test run in the Sea of Japan, spewing chemicals that killed at least 20 people and injured 21 others.

The fire safety system on new Russian nuclear-powered submarine malfunctioned on a test run in the Sea of Japan, spewing chemicals that killed at least 20 people and injured 21 others, officials said today.

Donal Hickey says deaths are baffling scientists

Cutting-edge DNA analysis is being used in an attempt to explain why alarmingly high numbers of salmon are dying at sea.

AN ambitious Russian naval expedition has resumed its voyage toward the North Pole after the crew repaired the research ship’s engine, a Russian TV correspondent aboard the ship reported.

President Vladimir Putin, meeting with EU leaders on Friday, will seek to advance Russia’s economic interests in Europe, defend its handling of foreign investors in its major oil and gas projects and deflect criticism of its heavy-handed response in a dispute with Georgia.

Sailors in dress uniforms stood rigid on a ship deck today as wreaths were tossed into the sea to honour 118 of their comrades who perished five years ago when the nuclear submarine Kursk sank.

THE submarine accident occurred almost exactly five years after the nuclear submarine Kursk sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea after explosions on board, killing all 118 seamen aboard in a painful blow to the Russian navy.

Crews are racing to save a Russian mini-submarine trapped in the remote Pacific with seven sailors on board and oxygen supplies dwindling, navy officials said today.

Russian news agencies have reported that Japan is to send four ships to help rescue seven Russian sailors trapped on a naval mini-submarine on the sea floor off the Pacific Coast.

A deep-sea diving vessel with seven sailors aboard was stuck on the sea floor off the Kamchatka Peninsula yesterday after becoming caught on an unidentified object, Russian navy officials and news reports said.

Russia’s navy chief accused Britain and the US today of blocking an agreement between the world’s leading naval powers to prevent underwater collisions and other incidents.

Norway’s Oil and Energy Minister Thorhild Widvey said the nation may consider opening more of its Arctic waters for increased drilling and exploration, countering a slump in its North Sea oil reserves.

DEEP sea fish stocks in the North Atlantic are being trawled at more than twice the rate they can stand by European fishermen to provide food for farmed salmon.

THE world’s cod stocks could be wiped out by 2020 because of over-fishing, illegal catches and oil exploration, the environment group WWF said yesterday.

Russia’s navy chief said today that one of the nation’s most powerful ships, the nuclear-powered Peter the Great missile cruiser, was in such dire condition that it could “explode” at any moment – a statement attributed in some quarters to infighting among naval top brass.

One of Russia’s most powerful ships, the nuclear-powered Peter the Great missile cruiser, was in dire condition and could explode at any moment, a Russian navy chief said today.

KIRSTEN Foy (Irish Examiner letters, Sept 8) is right. All air traffic passing through Shannon should be tracked by satellite and the gross weight of the aircraft estimated against the combined avoirdupois of each passenger, plus aviation fuel, baggage, food, drink and the deadweight of the aircraft.

The derelict nuclear submarine that sank in the fish-rich Barents Sea while en route to a scrapyard cannot be raised until at least next year, a Russian naval chief said today.

RUSSIA'S defence minister yesterday ordered a temporary halt to towing decommissioned nuclear submarines to scrapyards after a mothballed submarine sank, killing nine of the sailors on board.

Nine of the crew of an aged Russian nuclear submarine which sunk while being towed to a scrapyard in a gale in the Barents Sea died today.

A Russian nuclear-powered K-159 submarine sank in a fierce late summer storm in the Barents Sea today, killing at least two of the 10-member crew, the Defence Ministry said. No weapons were aboard the sub.

An operation to remove the wreck of a huge car carrier which has blocked part of the English Channel for more than six months was due to move into its main phase today.

Attempts to save the crew of Russia’s Kursk nuclear submarine were doomed by mistakes and sloppiness, not least the failure of a top admiral to realise anything had gone wrong, a government report has revealed.

Statoil ASA said it sees closer collaboration between Norway and Russia over energy resources in the far north and will carry out extensive seismic surveys in the Barents Sea.

Russian military and civilian officials unveiled a bronze monument to the crew of the Kursk nuclear submarine in Moscow today, marking the second anniversary of the explosion that sank the vessel.

THE Russian government confirmed yesterday that leaked torpedo fuel and not a foreign submarine or a Second World War mine caused the explosions that destroyed the Kursk nuclear submarine.

The Russian government confirmed today that leaky torpedo fuel - and not a foreign submarine or a Second World War mine - caused the explosions that destroyed the Kursk nuclear submarine.

Veteran Russian submariners are threatening to sue the producers of the new Harrison Ford blockbuster K-19: The Widowmaker, claiming it portrays them as heavy drinkers.

The Kursk nuclear submarine tragedy that killed 118 crewmen was caused by the explosion of fuel in one of its torpedoes, the Russian governmental commission investigating the accident has found.

A senior Russian admiral says 23 sailors in the Kursk may have suffered through three days of agony waiting in vain for a rescue that never came.

Three Russian admirals have been dismissed over the Kursk disaster.

Vladimir Putin has indicated the Kursk catastrophe might be blamed on poor naval preparation for military exercises.

Scots divers who helped recover the bodies of dead crewmen from the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk will today be honoured by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Eleven Russian sailors who drowned in the Kursk nuclear submarine disaster were buried earlier today.

Severe damage to the Kursk nuclear submarine has thwarted efforts to remove its last six cruise missiles, so investigators must cut them out together with their silos, the Russian navy chief said today.