An expert commission tasked by Norway’s government with evaluating a suggestion that the country’s US$1-trillion sovereign wealth fund divests from all its oil and gas investments has advised against such Continue Reading
The next challenge for Norway’s oil industry may not come from another oil price crash. It could come from a political uncertainty over which new areas Western Europe’s biggest oil Continue Reading
Pointing to a high level of success for its assets in the Kurdish north of Iraq, Norwegian company DNO said it was paying its first dividend in 13 years. The Continue Reading
The Norwegian government reported results Thursday from an appraisal well in the North Sea that were better than operator Equinor expected. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, the nation’s energy regulator, reported Continue Reading
The Norwegian government reported Wednesday that total greenhouse gas emissions were lower, with declines in pollution from road traffic leading the way. Statistics Norway, the government’s record-keeping agency, published data Continue Reading
There’s been no luck in an effort to find new reserves near a multimillion-barrel prospect in the Barents Sea, the Norwegian government stated Monday. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, the nation’s Continue Reading
The Norwegian government gave Equinor consent to start production drilling in an oil field in the Norwegian Sea set for a production start next year. “We have given Equinor consent Continue Reading
Britain’s largest workers union, Unite the Union, threatened strike action on Equinor’s Mariner oil platform, the union said on Friday, and yet another strike on Total’s North Sea fields is Continue Reading
An unusually hot, dry second quarter saw Statkraft’s hydro-based power production fall 22% to 11.5 TWh for the period, the state utility said Thursday. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes Continue Reading
A labor group representing offshore employers in Norway said the nation’s reputation as an oil and gas producer was at stake because of strikes. As promised, an offshore trade union Continue Reading
