North Sea

North Sea oil and gas, which accounts for 14% of Norway’s GDP, 40% of exports, and employs 7% of its workforce, has made the country one of the richest in the world, by GDP per capita.

In 2014, a Netherlands-based company opened an osmotic plant perched atop the Afsluitdijk, a dike that separates the salty North Sea from the freshwater bay of IJsselmeer.

Years earlier, Merrell, a physical oceanographer at Texas A&M University at Galveston, had toured the gigantic Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier, a nearly 6-mile-long bulwark that prevents North Sea storms from flooding the southern Dutch coast.

With limited land and many cities that are at or below sea level, the Dutch are taking advantage of their North Sea border to create new energy sources.

Nuclear-capable Russian bombers are flying over the North Sea and the Atlantic.

Aberdeen, perched on the North Sea, offers a perfect example of the schism between the top and bottom earners.

Proceeds from its North Sea drilling rigs will insure corruption and kleptocracy on a Nigerian scale.

My parents came from the tiny island of Föhr in the North Sea off the coast of Germany and Denmark.

Stigler escorted the bomber over the North Sea and took one last look at the American pilot.

A sailor, who had brought an accordion with him, was playing "While the North Sea roars," and other popular airs.

Few people know that large numbers of the splendid seamen who man our North Sea fishing fleets are arrant Cockneys.

He knew his way about the North Sea blindfold, and all he didn't know about his trade wasn't worth knowing.

The steam-tug had not to contend with the ordinary straightforward rush of a North Sea storm.

Is the Prince kept prisoner on a trawler sweeping the North Sea for mines?