First pipeline to cross the Arctic Circle
Last updated: October 14, 2017 at 19:12 pm
The Polarled gas underwater pipeline (Statoil) linking the Aasta Hansteen natural gas field in the Norwegian Sea to a processing plant on the mainland 483 km (300 mi.) was laid in 2015.
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Jeffrey Gallant is the Editor-in-Chief and Records Keeper of the Diving Almanac. He is also a contributing editor of DIVER Magazine, and the scientific director of the Greenland Shark and Elasmobranch Education and Research Group (GEERG). Jeffrey started diving in 1982.