挪威认为，欧盟新的北极战略回应了其在极地石油钻探问题上的强力游说努力。
Norway sees the European Union’s new Arctic strategy rewarding its intense lobbying efforts over polar oil drilling.
周二在斯特拉斯堡发布的战略文本不再包含备受争议的“暂停”一词，这令能源大臣特里耶·阿斯兰感到满意。
The text of the strategy, presented on Tuesday in Strasbourg, no longer contains the highly contested word “moratorium,” to the satisfaction of Energy Minister Terje Aasland.
挪威从未加入欧盟，是西欧最大的石油和天然气出口国，随着挪威大陆架上较成熟的油气田停止生产，该国正积极勘探高北地区的更多油气田。
Norway, which never joined the EU, is Western Europe’s largest exporter of oil and gas and is actively exploring more fields in the high north as more mature fields on the Norwegian shelf go out of production.
阿斯兰在给彭博社的电子邮件中表示：“我们欢迎不再谈论对北极地区石油和天然气实行暂停开采，”并补充说，“在未来几年，我们北部地区的生产将变得日益重要。”尽管如此，欧盟继续呼吁将所有化石燃料留在地下，“优先”发展可再生能源和北极圈外生产的碳氢化合物。
“We welcome the fact that there is no longer any talk of a moratorium on oil and gas from Arctic regions,” Aasland told Bloomberg in an email, adding that “production in our northern regions will become increasingly important in the years ahead.”Still, the EU continues to call for all fossil fuels to be kept in the ground, “prioritizing” renewable energy sources and hydrocarbons produced outside the Arctic.
欧盟2021年的北极战略称，“以美国、加拿大和格陵兰部分地区‘对北极碳氢化合物勘探实行部分暂停’为基础，‘欧盟致力于确保石油、煤炭和天然气留在地下，包括在北极地区’。”去年，挪威在巴伦支海（属于北极地区）的许可证轮次中授予了五个石油和天然气勘探许可证，并开放了38个区块供2026年申请。去年，挪威供应了欧盟近三分之一的天然气进口，其中一小部分来自这些油气田。
Its 2021 Arctic strategy said that “building on the partial moratoriums on hydrocarbons exploration in the Arctic” in parts of the US, Canada and Greenland, “the EU is committed to ensuring that oil, coal and gas stay in the ground, including in Arctic regions.”Norway awarded five oil and gas exploration licenses in the Barents Sea, which is part of the Arctic, in last year’s licensing round and opened up 38 blocks in 2026 for applications. Norway supplied almost a third of EU’s gas imports last year, including a small part from those fields.
