Russia stokes political tensions with hunt for Antarctic oil

[HannoCometh]

2020 article

Russia stokes political tensions with hunt for Antarctic oil

HIGHLIGHTS
State surveyor shoots new offshore seismic

Oil exploration banned under Antarctic Treaty

Rosgeologia pegs oil potential at over 500 billion barrels

[HannoCometh]

2020

Russia Makes Move On Antarctica’s 513 Billion Barrels Of Oil

Rosgeologia’s seismic surveys and other related work since the 70s to now indicate that there is at least 513 billion barrels of oil and gas equivalent in Antarctica, and Moscow has now set its sights on the world’s most underexplored continent

Official territorial claims:



Potential territorial claims if principle of frontage is applied:

[HannoCometh]

P.S.
This is obviously relating to oil and natural gas reserves and not Antarctic Krill Oil (which is either a supplement for human consumptionor used for cooking oil, although Krill cooking oil is not as readily available as, say, for example, Sunflower cooking oil or Olive oil cooking oil lol)

[Iron_Chef]

What's going on with Russia? Why are they choosing war with Ukraine, Sweden, Poland, now they want oil from Antarctica? He's threatening to destroy the world with nuclear war... Which means nobody will survive on the entire planet..

[HannoCometh]

Just thinking about Antarctica gives everybody on Earth a "big world feel" because when you picture it in your Mind's eye, you have to zoom out of the globe (like you would on Google Earth) and then rotate around until you get to the bottom (because Antarctica is below, yes? lol)

[wickedman]

How the fuk does any country think they have a "claim" to an area of Antartica with no people or infrastructure there...