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Lofoten ‘saved’ from oil, for now

The scenic and highly popular coastal areas around Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja in Northern Norway will likely be spared from controversial oil exploration and...

Oil industry faces labour shortage

The rapid recovery of Norway's oil industry is suddenly leaving some offshore oil and oil service companies short of workers. State welfare and employment...

Equinor poised for ‘extreme’ profits

Massive cost-cutting in recent years and rising oil prices can lead to "extreme profitability" for Equinor, Norway's state-controlled oil and energy firm that recently...

Strike spread to more oil platforms

A strike by workers on several offshore oil platforms spread this week with no settlement in sight. More thn 3,000 workers have been pulled...

Offshore strike hits nine oil platforms

The large labour organization representing offshore oil platform workers, Safe, failed to come to terms over pensions with the organization representing oil platform- and...

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...

Melting ice makes drilling ‘immoral’

A Norwegian researcher's findings that the Barents Sea may be ice-free by 2040 has unleashed new heated opposition to Norway's granting of licenses for...

Norwegian tanker spills oil in Rotterdam

A Norwegian tanker in the fleet of Bergen-based Odfjell Tankers spilled as much as 217 tons of heavy oil after it collided with the...

Oil minister avoids new rape probe

A state prosecutor has decided not to re-open an investigation of 18-year-old rape charges against Norwegian Oil Minister Terje Søviknes of the conservative Progress...

Huge new contracts fuel the oil industry

Just two weeks after a huge new drilling rig for Norway's state-owned oil company was completed and towed away from Aibel's yard in Haugesund,...
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