Tag: gas
Huge investment planned for ‘Troll’
Norway's newly renamed oil company Equinor and its partners announced more huge new investment in their large Troll oil and gas field in the...
Norway exports record amounts of gas
Never before has Norway exported so much gas as it did during the last 12 months ending in October. Norway's Statoil also emerged as...
Troubled ‘Goliat’ knocked out again
Norway's Labour Minister Anniken Hauglie has vowed that the chronically troubled Goliat platform in the Barents Sea won't be allowed to restart operations until...
Climate law passed as more oil urged
Despite all the concerns about the climate and carbon emissions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) urged Norway this week to keep expanding its offshore...
Power plant closure ‘great’ for climate
Norway's biggest oil and energy company, Statoil, was finally being hailed on Tuesday after it announced that it was shutting down its gas-fueled power plant at Mongstad on the...
New oil minister bullish as usual
Terje Søviknes, a veteran politician from the conservative Progress Party, made his North Sea debut as Norway's new oil and energy minister this week when he...
‘Scandal’ looms at Statoil refinery
Top officials of Norwegian oil company Statoil were summoned on Friday to the offices of state oil industry regulators for the second time this week. They...
Darker days for Norway’s Statoil
Statoil, hit by a string of serious accidents lately, had to deal with more bad news on Thursday when its third-quarter financial results showed...
State ensures development of new gas field
After some skeptical oil companies gave up plans to develop Norway's Dvalin gas field in the Norwegian Sea, Norway's state-owned oil company Petoro stepped in...
Pressure grows on scenic Lofoten
One of Norway's most scenic tourist magnets, the Lofoten peninsula, and the spectacular neighbouring areas of Vesterålen and Senja are once again under pressure....
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