High-resolution computer simulations performed by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) are helping to understand the inflow of North Atlantic water to the Arctic Ocean and how this influences ocean climate.

Scientists from the GKSS Research Centre in Geesthacht have developed a mathematical method that enables a reconstruction of the occurrence of small-scale polar storms - so-called polar lows - in the North Atlantic.

Norwegian energy group StatoilHydro has announced that during the gas year 2007, which ended September 30, 2008, it has sold approximately 80 billion cubic meters of gas compared to the gas year 2006 when it sold 76 billion cubic meters, a 5% increase in sales.

ASTANA. Aug 6 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan increased oil and gas condensate production 5.6% year-on-year in the first seven months of 2008 to 41.138 million tonnes, a government official told Interfax. Condensate production fell, by 7.1% to 3.708 million tonnes.

MOSCOW. July 21 (Interfax) - Gazprom Marketing & Trading (GM&T), the British trader of Gazprom (RTS: GAZP), and Spanish Gas Natural SDG have signed a framework agreement on liquefied natural gas supplies, GM&T said on Monday.