Tag: gas

Analyst predicts ‘new oil age’

Finally some good news for Norway's suddenly hard-pressed oil industry: A top energy analyst told a packed conference in Stavanger this week that he...

‘Norway’s oil age is not over,’ yet

Tord Lien, Norway's government minister for oil and energy, isn't letting himself be overly concerned by the recent, some say dramatic, fall in oil...

Norway ‘doesn’t have much extra gas’ for EU

Norway's oil and energy minister, Tord Lien, said Tuesday that Norway has "a theoretical capacity" to export 120 billion cubic meters of gas a...

Huge new oil find as firms cut jobs

Oil company Lundin Petroleum announced a huge new oil and gas discovery  in the Barents Sea on Tuesday that renewed hopes for the oil industry...

Baltic gas deals pressed down Russian prices

Norwegian gas deals with Lithuania have led to some lower prices from Russia's Gazprom, in an apparent attempt to hang on to Gazprom's Baltic...

EU gas strategy may hurt Norway

Almost all of Norway's gas is exported to Europe, but that could be set to change under the EU's new gas policy. The EU...

UN: Close coal mines on Svalbard

The United Nations' Executive Secretary on climate change, Christiana Figueres, said Norway should close down its coal mines on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard....

Quarrels fly over rig electrification

The Progress Party accused the coalition government's support parties, the Christian Democrats and Liberals, of breaching their agreements with the government by supporting electrification...

Parties unite over rig power plans

Norway's opposition parties have banded together to demand that oil companies power the entire Utsira High oil field by electricity from the shore, not...

Statoil rejects ethical proposals

Norway's mostly state-owned oil company Statoil rejected three  proposals from other shareholders for greener, more ethical operations, ahead of its annual general meeting in...
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