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Oil workers fish for new seafood jobs

Norway's booming seafood industry is suddenly attracting a whole new school of workers, from the beleaguered oil and offshore sector. Crews who once worked...

Salmon worth more than a barrel of oil

One farmed Norwegian salmon weighing around 4.5 kilos was worth more than a barrel of Norway's North Sea crude oil at the end of this...

More job cuts loom at Aker Solutions

Norway's major oil service and engineering company Aker Solutions warned Friday that it likely will need to cut another 900 jobs, because of ongoing shrinkage in...

Odfjell cuts jobs as oil price sinks

Odfjell Drilling, one of Norway's major rig companies serving the oil industry, slashed 20 percent of its workforce on Wednesday as the price of...

Falling oil price costs another 100 jobs

Another 100 workers in the oil industry in Stavanger got the bad news on Monday that they're about to lose their jobs. The dive...

Statoil warns of ‘bad’ oil market

Statoil's chief executive Eldar Sætre has issued a new warning that the market for oil can be "really bad for a long time," after the...

Gas leak at Statoil plant set off alarms

A serious gas leak at Statoil's Kårstø plant on Norway's west coast forced officials to consider more evacuations Friday morning. Leakage of methane gas...

New oil price dip hits krone again

As the price for a barrel of Norway's North Sea crude oil sunk once again on Wednesday, so did the value of Norway's currency,...

More petrol station changes loom

Norwegian drivers need to brace for major changes when they're out driving this year. The country's three largest petrol station chains are all set...

Statoil stations soon to disappear

Norway is about to lose one of its biggest international brand names, when all of the hundreds of Statoil gasoline stations and convenience stores in Europe are...

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