A Russian move to size up offshore oil and gas potential in the Antarctic may not signal the start of a rush to develop the world’s last great wilderness, but it does threaten to unravel a fragile political compromise that has protected the region for the last 60 years. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Russia’s state-run geological surveyor Rosgeologia shot 4,400 km of new seismic in the Riiser-Larsen Sea, off the coast of Antarctic’s Queen Maud Land earlier this year, it announced last week. The first seismic survey in the area by Russia since the late 1990s, Rosgeologia said the purpose was to assess the offshore oil and gas potential of the area using the latest technology. Unlike […]