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Expert warns of Arctic drilling risks

A highly acclaimed Oxford professor who's considered an expert on energy research has thrown cold water on Norway's hopes for a new oil era...

Aker Solutions cuts more jobs

Oslo-based Aker Solutions, hit hard by the slowdown in the oil and offshore industry, has announced a need to cut as many as 650...

Labour’s love lost on Lofoten debate

Labour Party leader Jonas Gahr Støre has finally confirmed that Norway's scenic Lofoten islands need some tender loving care, with parts of their offshore waters protected from oil...

More trouble for ‘Goliat’ platform

Norwegian petroleum authorities have signaled another security inspection of the long-troubled Goliat platform in the Barents Sea, around 90 kilometers northwest of Hammerfest. It...

Statoil insists it’s also ‘going green’

Even as Statoil promoted a "fantastic portfolio" of oil drilling projects for 2017 this week, three of them in the sensitive Arctic, top officials insist the Norwegian...

Leaders clash at NHO conference

Norway's national employers' organization NHO gathered some of the most powerful business and political leaders in the country on Thursday for its annual conference...

Statoil ‘finished’ with job-cutting

Norway's biggest company, Statoil, started off the New Year with some good news for employees: Management has decided it's "reached its goal" for staff...

Norway ‘rigged for an economic upturn’

Oil prices will rise, Norway's krone will regain strength, unemployment will top out and housing prices will shoot up even higher. That's the overall outlook...

Carbon emissions rise once again

New figures released this week confirm that Norway's carbon emissions have risen once again, and the country's oil and gas industry is mostly to...

Statoil finally sells out of oil sands

Norwegian oil company Statoil finally did what climate activists, environmentalists and several top Norwegian politicians have been urging for years: Sell off the last...
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