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BP latest to slash oil jobs in Norway

British oil company BP has become the latest oil industry player to relieve itself of costly staff in Norway, to help offset the impact...

Repatriation: The rocky road home

SPECIAL FEATURE: Tougher economic times in Norway, brought on by the fall in oil prices, mean many expatriates in the country are now dealing with...

Finance minister unveils details of employment measures

Norway’s conservative coalition government promised it would devote NOK 4 billion to measures aimed at combating the country’s rising unemployment rate, and last week...

Foreign workers told to go home

For years, Norway's oil capital of Stavanger needed and welcomed engineers and other oil industry workers from other countries. Now, with the boom years over...

‘Help wanted’ ads fall with oil price

The volume of vacant jobs advertised online in Norway has fallen to its lowest level in at least seven years, according to a website...

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...

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...

Central bank boss: Still ‘no crisis’

Norwegian wage-earners will have to settle for little if any increase in their purchasing power this year, and several thousand will need to find...

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...
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