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Battle over Norway’s Lofoten oil reserves

As Norway chases new Arctic oil and gas fields, environmentalists are urging the country’s major political parties to drop plans for offshore drilling around the scenic and unspoilt Lofoten archipelago

Lofoten archipelago: Home to world’s biggest cold-water coral reef and breeding area for 70 percent of all fish caught in Norwegian and Barents Seas

Oil development blocks
About 1.3 billion barrels of oil, worth $60 billion, lies beneath Lofoten archipelago and island groups of Vesterålen and Senja

100km 60 miles
Troms II
Senja
Vesterålen
Nordland VII
Lofoten
NORWAY
SWEDEN

Norway’s oil and gas output
Million cubic metres of oil equivalent
300
200
100
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1971 2016 2030
Projection

Area of detail
200km 125 miles
Norwegian Sea
NORWAY
Oslo
SWEDEN
FINLAND
RUSSIA
Sources: Bloomberg, WWF Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS