Tag: Statoil

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...

Four hostages confirmed dead

UPDATED: Four of the five missing employees of Norwegian state oil company Statoil who were among those taken hostage in Algeria on January 16...

Profits rule over risks and ethics

NEWS ANALYSIS: Major Norwegian companies seem more than willing to take risks and downplay ethical concerns to continue doing business in troubled areas abroad....

Questions raised over Statoil’s risk

Norwegian state-owned oil company Statoil underestimated the risk of operating in Algeria, claims a former Statoil board member. His claim, made a week after...

Statoil mourns as death toll rises

Algerian authorities announced Monday that 38 hostages, 37 of them foreign nationals working in Algeria, are now believed to have been killed after Islamist...

Norway copes with new national crisis

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg headed for Statoil's headquarters in Stavanger on Monday, as the hostage crisis in Algeria continued to put his government and...

Ministry confirms counterattack

Norway's Foreign Ministry confirmed Thursday afternoon that the Algerian military had launched a counterattack on radical Islamists who'd been holding hostages, nine of them...

Statoil had braced for lengthy crisis

Helge Lund, chief executive of Norwegian state oil company Statoil, was the one to go live on national TV in Norway Thursday morning, to...

Norwegians held hostage in Algeria

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg went on national television Wednesday evening to say, at that point, that 13 Norwegians were caught in a hostage...
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