The story goes like this Greenpeace wanted to go the Northern Sea Route in Russia's Arctic and protest, for that read, interrupt the search for oil and gas in the Arctic, the Arctic is reckoned to have 13 % of the worlds undiscovered oil reserves and around 31 % of the worlds
undiscovered natural gas reserves.
Not exact matches
A 2008 U.S. geological survey pegged oil
reserves north of the Arctic Circle at 90 billion barrels — or 13 % of the projected
undiscovered oil in the world — and 44 billion barrels of
natural gas liquids.
The Arctic could hold, it is estimated, as much as a quarter of the world's
undiscovered oil (and
natural gas)
reserves.
Access to the world's largest remaining conventional,
undiscovered oil and
natural gas reserves — 13 percent of recoverable oil and 30 percent of recoverable
natural gas resources — is at stake.