The Arctic holds as much as 90bn barrels of undiscovered oil and has as much undiscovered gas as all the reserves known to exist in Russia, US government scientists have said in the first governmental assessment of the region’s resources.
The report is likely to add impetus to the race among polar nations, such as
The US Geological Survey believes the Arctic holds 13 per cent of the world’s undiscovered oil, while 1,669,000bn cubic feet of natural gas is equivalent to 30 per cent of the world’s undiscovered gas reserves.
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Sorry. You aren't gonna get a challenge from me. I think the world is far from running out of oil. The problem is that our oil is being bought from the Middle East.
With the amount of profit that Big Oil brings in every year, I really don't wanna hear that drilling locally is expensive.
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