{"id":8816,"date":"2026-10-15T00:03:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T00:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=8816"},"modified":"2026-10-15T00:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T00:03:21","slug":"denmark-pushes-back-as-trump-touts-greenland-oil-and-mineral-deals-oil-and-gas-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=8816","title":{"rendered":"Denmark pushes back as Trump touts Greenland oil and mineral deals | Oil and Gas News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recent US-Greenland-Denmark agreement excludes mining or drilling rights while reinforcing Greenland\u2019s sovereignty.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Denmark has demanded that US resource exploration in Greenland respect the island\u2019s laws amid President Donald Trump\u2019s claim that oil, gas and mineral extraction will soon begin there.<\/p>\n

The Danish Foreign Ministry reaffirmed on Wednesday that last month\u2019s agreement between Denmark, Greenland and the US did not alter the rules for extraction.<\/p>\n

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The agreement \u201cdoes not grant investors from the US any preferential treatment\u201d over investors from other NATO and EU countries when it comes to access to natural resources in Greenland, the ministry said.<\/p>\n

In a post on Truth Social, US President Trump called the semi-autonomous Danish territory \u201cour new and beautiful Greenland\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cMassive Oil, Gas, and Mineral Exploration is getting ready to begin,\u201d he wrote<\/a>, without providing details.<\/p>\n

What the deal covers<\/h2>\n

Trump, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland\u2019s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen signed the 10-page agreement on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 22, ending months of tensions over Trump\u2019s threats to control Greenland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The deal allows the US to \u201cmodernise and expand\u201d its activities at the Pituffik Space Base, a remote US military installation in northwest Greenland.<\/p>\n

It also paved the way for two new military bases<\/a> and Trump\u2019s \u201cGolden Dome\u201d missile defence system, while reaffirming Danish sovereignty and Greenlanders\u2019 right to self-determination.<\/p>\n

It did not allocate any rights for mining or drilling.<\/p>\n

Greenland\u2019s ban<\/h2>\n

Greenland banned uranium mining and all future oil exploration in 2021.<\/p>\n

Its government is reviewing whether a Texas firm, Greenland Energy, can use permits that predate the ban.<\/p>\n

The company said in August it planned to drill for oil in 2027 at an untested basin on Greenland\u2019s east coast, although it lacked its own permit.<\/p>\n

Danish security policy adviser Jacob Kaarsbo said Trump\u2019s comments could signal that his desire to control Greenland remains unchanged.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is extremely dangerous to view this agreement between the Trump administration and Denmark as something that has altered Trump\u2019s intentions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mikkel Olesen, a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, told Al Jazeera that details regarding mining and exploration rights remained unclear and that information coming mostly from the US side should be taken \u201cwith a grain of salt\u201d.<\/p>\n

Richard Weitz, a fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome, said Trump \u201cbacked down and settled for less\u201d than he sought, but still \u201cgot pretty much everything he wanted, except formal annexation\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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