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Search widened for missing helicopter

UPDATED: The search continued on Friday for a Russian MI-8 helicopter with eight people on board that crashed into the sea just off Svalbard's...

Colourful opening of Sami Parliament

Two days after the new Norwegian Parliament opened amidst traditional pomp and circumstance in Oslo this week, the country's Sami Parliament (Sametinget) opened in...

Explosion risk shuts down ‘Goliat’ platform

Norwegian authorities have ordered another shutdown of the huge problem-plagued Goliat platform in the Barents Sea. Now they claim the electrical system on board...

Statoil set to keep drilling in the Arctic

Norwegian state oil company Statoil intends to drill just as many exploration wells in the Barents Sea next summer as it did this summer, even though...

High costs emerge in oil drilling debate

If Norway went along with calls from climate experts and its own Greens Party to halt all new oil exploration, the country would likely still...

Norway strikes new climate pact, with NASA

Last week Norway signed a climate pact with the state of California, to help it electrify driving. Now Norway has signed a new deal...

Svalbard coal firm needs new bailout

Store Norske, the coal company that once dominated economic activity on Norway's Arctic island group of Svalbard, claims that it's once again teetering on the verge of...

Statoil finds more oil in Norwegian Sea

State oil company Statoil reported Monday that it had struck more oil during exploratory drilling in the Norwegian Sea. The new discovery at the...

Svalbard tackles ‘housing crisis’

Bulldozers rumbled onto the sites of abandoned housing in Norway's Arctic city of Longyearbyen on Svalbard over the weekend. The homes were badly damaged in...

Norway’s oil can flow for many years

More than half of all the oil and gas on the Norwegian Continental Shelf remains under the seabed, and can keep Norway's oil industry...
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