A small natural gas discovery in the arctic Barents Sea waters by Norway’s Statoil shows the risky campaign isn’t worth it, Greenpeace said Friday. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate characterized a discovery in a wildcat well in the Johan Castberg area of the Barents Sea as a small find for the Norwegian energy company . A wildcat well is one drilled into an area not known previously to contain oil or gas reserves. Erlend Tellnes, a Greenpeace campaigner, said the announcement of low gas volumes was a victory for the environment. “Statoil unsuccessful drilling campaign in the Barents Sea shows that the strategy to be more aggressive in the Arctic has been unsuccessful,” the campaigner said in a statement emailed to United Press International. More than […]