Polog

Type:
Service Platform

Period:
2005-

Location:
North-eastern Greenland

Facts:
• Servicing 30 projects during the summer season
• Total traffic of 300 passengers and 30 tons of cargo
• Types of transportation:  Fixed wing and helicopter

Distance is precious
In remote areas the biggest challenge to a project can be distance. Distance is proportional with time and money. The longer the flights the costlier, the longer you have to wait for supplies and good and new personnel the more your project will cost you.

In the arctic climate of Eastern Greenland - the most unfriendly and inaccessible part of Greenland - this challenge is definitely a reality. If a passenger plane flying from Island cannot land because of the weather it has to go back with the passengers. Effort, time and money are wasted.

To overcome this challenge POLOG decided to establish a platform in this area. The Danish Polar Center had previously been running platforms at Mestersvig and Constable Point, primarily for research activities in the north of Greenland. In 2005 POLOG took over management of these platforms.

The position of Constable Point is 70’44N 22’38W. The formal airport at Constable Point is run by the Greenland Airport Authority.

In the summer period POLOG ensure a wealth of activities on Constable Point to support the activities and camps in the area and connect them to the surrounding world.

Though our platform POLOG offer

• Transportation of goods and people to and from ongoing explorations.
• Weekly flight from/to European and US destinations.
• Small flights to the research stations Zackenberg and Daneborg.

All transportation takes advantage of the high load factors we achieve on the flights we manage. The combined supply of flight and airport management enable rational fly coordination – and prices that is highly competitive to alternative solutions.

These services are enabled by our long-established partnerships with NorlandAir and Air Greenland.

The Value of Infrastructure
The all-important advantage of this infrastructure is that it enables explorations to lower their costs considerably.

Should the relatively low number of projects take care of all logistics on their own hand prices will skyrocket. POLOG offers the advantages of economy of scale.

Training and field studies
Constable Point provides large scale benefits for the oil industry in their search for a better understanding of the hydrocarbon fields and reservoirs in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea.

Several petroleum companies operating on the continental shelf off-shore Norway bring their geologists and geophysicists to North-east Greenland. Some companies use the Mesozoic rocks in Jameson Land for basic field training. As a part of the training the companies do Twin Otter excursions to give the researchers insight in the large scale tectonic features of the North-Atlantic hydrocarbon province.

Other Oil companies use Constable Point for field analogue studies and reservoir characterization, as some of the hydrocarbon fields offshore Mid-Norway were located very close to the present coast line of East Greenland prior to opening of the Norwegian-Greenland Sea.