Russia Uncovers 511 Billion Barrels of Oil Beneath Antarctica: A Find That Could End the Continent’s Era of Peaceful Use

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1. Well this is going to be fun.

2. Turns out, there are 50000000000000000000000000 gorillion Russian minority penguins in Antartica oppressed by nazi woke homogay globalists, and Russia needs to do a Special Military Operation to liberate the continent

3. If it was practically accessible at a cost effective price – it would already have happened. Oil companies aren’t known for caring too much about the consequences. The reality is that the oil, if it even exists, is staying there. You’d not be able to get to it, extract it, maintain and ship it out for a price that Russia is able to profit from, especially with their sanctions. Russia can barely keep their existing oil refineries alive at the moment – repairing the constant war damage is expensive and obtaining parts and people difficult.

   With electric vehicles and cleaner power generation etc becoming cheaper and more accessible, even in poorer and developing nations, there isn’t enough long term certainty in any event.

4. Yikes good bye ice caps

5. I’d take any news sourced from India with a grain of salt.

6. Its been 15 years since i heard rumors about some of these spots
   Probably not the same ones, but we are no where near the end of oil.
   You want to drain the easy spots first.

7. On the big rock candy mountain you can never wear socks, and little streams of alcohol come trickling down the rocks…

8. So there could be a major hydrocarbon system there – but until you start drilling you don’t really know. And Russia has not actually proven any prospects

9. Firstly, can we post better sources for news like this. I don’t know this site at all, but it seems to refer back to an Indian Defence Review article from this month, which itself refers back to a newsweek article from last year, without any new information.

   Here’s the [Telegraph from May 2024](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/11/russia-uncovers-oil-and-gas-reserves-british-antarctic/), with the same story.

   Is this news?

10. Russia may have just found 511 billion barrels of oil beneath Antarctica’s Weddell Sea, enough to rival the world’s largest oil reserves. However, drilling there could obliterate one of the last pristine areas on Earth and breach the Antarctic Treaty that protects it.

11. And to get it they probably have to spend what Ukraine is costing them right now or more so though it’s there, they ain’t getting it while they in Ukraine

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