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An IFP engineer has drawn up a map of the oil resources of the North Pole, extracts:
Sciences et Avenir wrote:This map shows the current (maritime) borders and known oil reserves.
The American geological agency, US geological survey, has indeed announced that 25% of the world's oil reserves were beyond the Arctic Circle.
But the engineer tempers: "97% of them are inside the 200 nautical mile zone which extends off the coasts of the riparian States, that is to say already belonging to a clearly identified State. (...) Finally, only 3% of the reserves are in the international zone and could be the subject of claims.
“From a geological point of view, HC reservoirs can only be formed in sedimentary basins. However, the Pole forms on an ocean ridge. It does not contain any sediment. Therefore, there is no oil under the North Pole itself."
Oil tankers are therefore already largely aware of the oil resources of the North Pole (and Bush has launched prospecting in the Antarctic) and the melting of the ice will greatly facilitate its exploitation ... polar bears? We have the zoo for them ...