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Dark Hellion wrote:North Sea = Britain??
You obviously don't know what an economic exclusion zone is. Any resources within 200 miles of a nations shores at sea belong to that nation. In this case the oil fields of the North Sea got divided between the UK and Norway.

It's when stuff is outside any nations EEZ or when the boundary between overlapping EEZ's is disputed you get major problems, that's why the often-touted oilfields of the Spratly islands are still disputed and undeveloped.
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