Though trade levels increased during the third quarter, the number of jobs opened in the Norwegian oil and gas sector continues to decline, national data show. Economic growth has been slow for most of the year for Norway, with gross domestic product increasing by slightly less than 1 percent for the past four quarters combined. Statistics Norway said the trade surplus for September was $1.9 billion, the second lowest level since March 2003. In a snapshot of labor figures, the data-mining body oil and gas said employment prospects were dwindling. “The number of job vacancies in the production of oil and gas decreased by half from the third quarter of 2014 to the third quarter of 2015,” the agency said. […]