Tag: gas
Statoil expands amidst controversy
Norwegian oil company Statoil is barreling ahead with major expansion plans for its oil and gas production, despite ongoing complaints from the country's environmental...
Business is booming up north
Exports from long-struggling northern Norway have increased by 38 percent in the last year, compared to an 8 percent rise in the rest of...
Maryland sues Statoil after accident
The state of Maryland in the USA will sue Norway's part state-owned oil and gas entreprise Statoil for alleged contamination of drinking water, in...
Norway ‘earns from Libya conflict’
The Norwegian state has earned large amounts of money since the beginning of the UN-backed international military operations in Libya because of the effect...
Leak closes Statoil’s Njord field
The discovery on Easter Sunday of a gas leak at the Njord oil and gas field, operated by Norwegian part state-owned company Statoil, has...
Spring relieves electricity crisis
The newly-arrived, mild Norwegian spring looks set to spare the country an electricity crisis, as rain and melting snow relieve the pressure on the...
Grandparents apologize to Canada for Statoil
Norwegian state oil company Statoil appeared in front of a Canadian court on Wednesday for the first preliminary hearing of a case in which...
Statoil in huge new oil find
Norway's part-state owned oil and gas enterprise Statoil has made a "significant" discovery of oil and gas in the Norwegian section of the Barents...
Statoil slammed over gas leak
Norway's state-owned oil and gas enterprise Statoil has come in for more withering criticism, this time over an accident on another of its North...
Electricity may be rationed
The power supply status for southern Norway was raising more concerns this week, with state authorities heightening their description of supplies from "tight" to...
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