Tag: Statoil hostages
Statoil on results, safety and sanctions
Statoil's results for the second quarter of 2014 revealed adjusted earnings were lower than expected, but the net profit was better than anticipated. Chief...
Statoil returns to terror-hit In Amenas
Around 10 Statoil workers have returned to its jointly-owned gas processing plant at In Amenas, Algeria, which was targeted by radical Islamists last year....
Terror-hit Statoil still taking risks
One year after Norwegian oil company Statoil was hit by a terrorist attack at a gas plant it co-operated in Algeria, the company continues...
Statoil ‘must’ improve security
Norwegian oil company Statoil "couldn't have prevented" the deadly attack by Islamic terrorists on its gas facility in Algeria earlier this year, claims a...
Terror survivors tell their stories
Three Statoil employees who survived a terrorist attack on an Algerian gas plant in January finally told their dramatic stories this week, on Norwegian...
British extremist claims ‘mentor’ role
A British Islamic extremist reportedly has claimed he's become a mentor and adviser for Norwegian Islamists, although they don't seem to entirely agree. Several...
Statoil launches Algerian probe
Norwegian oil company Statoil has appointed retired Lt General Torgeir Hagen, former head of the military's own intelligence agency, to lead the company's own...
Statoil honours its terror victims
Five flags hung at half-mast outside Bergen's historic Håkons Hall on Monday, as Statoil chief executive Helge Lund and Norway's oil minister Ola Borten...
Statoil mourns all its five victims
The last of the missing employees of Norwegian state oil company Statoil who were among hostages held in a terrorist attack in Algeria on...
Statoil wants to stay in Algeria
Norwegian state-owned oil company Statoil intends to continue operations in Algeria after a gas processing plant was attacked there earlier this month by radical...
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