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Fears over Russian threat to Norway’s energy infrastructure
FILE - The Sleipner A gas platform, Norway, Oct. 1, 2022 as a Coast Guard ship patrols around the platform. Norwegian oil and gas workers normally don’t see anything more threatening than North Sea waves crashing against the steel legs of their offshore platforms. But lately they have noticed a more troubling sight: unidentified drones buzzing in the skies overhead. (Ole Berg-Rusten/NTB Scanpix via AP, File)
life
He excels in chess, soccer and ballroom dancing: Simen Agdestein’s remarkable career
energy and resources
Norway inspects subsea gas pipeline due to safety concerns after Nord Stream leaks
Night view taken on September 28, 2022 shows the Karsto gas processing plant in the municipality of Tysvær in the North Rogaland county, Norway. - Dry gas is exported from Karsto through the Europipe II pipeline to Dornum in northern Germany and through the transport systems Statpipe and Norpipe to Emden. Norway, now the biggest supplier of gas to Europe, will beef up security around its oil installations, it said following allegations of sabotage on Nord Stream's Baltic Sea pipelines. (Photo by Cornelius Poppe / NTB / AFP) / Norway OUT (Photo by CORNELIUS POPPE/NTB/AFP via Getty Images)
opinion
With its painstaking balancing act, Norway prepares for both peace and war
Michael Byers
energy and resources
Norway posts soldiers at oil, gas plants in bid to boost security after Nord Stream pipeline leaks
This undated handout picture released on September 30, 2022 by Norwegian Armed Forces shows a frigate Thor Heyerdahl patroling at the industrial site Mongstad in Norway. - Norway's prime minister said on September 30, 2022 the country, which has become Europe's biggest supplier of natural gas, had accepted military contributions from France, Germany and Britain to secure its oil and gas sector. (Photo by Handout / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO /HANDOUT/NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by HANDOUT/AFP via Getty Images)
opinion
Norway is a ‘green’ country – making lots of money from oil and gas. Canada, there’s your model
The Editorial Board
energy and resources
Norway to deploy military to protect its oil and gas installations after Russian pipeline leaks
FILE PHOTO: A general view of the Equinor's Johan Sverdrup oilfield platforms in the North Sea, Norway December 3, 2019. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/File Photo/File Photo
energy and resources
Norway’s oil safety regulator warns of threats from unidentified drones
FILE - The Ekofisk oil field off the North Sea in Norway, Oct. 24, 2019. Norway’s exports have reached a record in July that is driven mainly by higher natural gas prices. The Scandinavian country’s statistics agency on Monday, Aug. 15, 2022 said Norwegian exports reached 229 billion kroner ($24 billion) last month. Norway is a major producer of offshore oil and gas. (Carina Johansen/NTB Scanpix via AP)
international business
Norway’s wealth fund tells firms to set net zero emission goals by 2050
Norway sovereign wealth fund CEO Nicolai Tangen speaks to reporters in Arendal, Norway August 17, 2022. REUTERS/Victoria Klesty
opinion
In this devastating moment, Canada must support the James Smith Cree Nation
Ken Coates
energy and resources
Oil companies must step up exploration off Norway to unlock potential, agency says
FILE PHOTO: A general view of the drilling platform, the first out of four oil platforms to be installed at Norway's giant offshore Johan Sverdrup field during the 1st phase development, near Stord, western Norway September 4, 2017. REUTERS/Nerijus Adomaitis
sports
U.S. and Norway forge unprecedented ski jumping partnership
FILE - Norway's Marius Lindvik competes during the World Cup ski jumping in Vikersundbakken, Norway, Saturday March 12, 2022. Ski jumping governing bodies from the United States and Norway have forged an unprecedented partnership. USA Nordic Sport and Norges Hopplandslaget announced Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022, that their national ski jumping teams will share coaches and training facilities as part of a four-year agreement.(Terje Bendiksby/NTB via AP, File)
european business
Norway’s oil, gas firms raise investment forecasts
This handout released by Bitmap shows the arrival of the decommissioned oil platform Gyda in Stord (Norway) where the installation is set to be demolished on May 25, 2022. - It could have been their cemetery, but in this construction site in southwestern Norway, old oil platforms, emblems of the age of fossil fuels, are experiencing a new life stamped with the seal of the circular economy. Placed on the quays of the island town of Stord, three gigantic but obsolete modules, or 40,000 tons of material in total, are waiting to be dismantled and reduced to pieces. (Photo by Svein Olav Hyttebakk / BITMAP / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / SVEIN OLAV HYTTEBAKK / Bitmap " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by SVEIN OLAV HYTTEBAKK/BITMAP/AFP via Getty Images)
interest rates
Norway’s central bank enacts big rate hike to tame inflation
FILE PHOTO: People go about their day near Norway's central bank building in Oslo, Norway May 31, 2017. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/File Photo
european business
Norway’s wealth fund loses record $174-billion in first half of 2022
FILE PHOTO: A general view of the Norwegian central bank, where Norway's sovereign wealth fund is situated, in Oslo, Norway, March 6, 2018. REUTERS/Gwladys Fouche
world
Norway puts down Freya the walrus that drew Oslo crowds
Freya the walrus sitting on a boat in Frognerkilen in Oslo, Norway, Monday July 18, 2022. Authorities in Norway said Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022 they have euthanized a walrus that had drawn crowds of spectators in the Oslo Fjord after concluding that it posed a risk to humans. (Tor Erik Schrøder/NTB Scanpix via AP)
soccer
Austria ousts Norway, sets up Euros quarterfinal against Germany
Austria players celebrate at the end of the Women Euro 2022 group A soccer match between Austria and Norway at Brighton & Hove Community Stadium in Brighton, England, Friday, July 15, 2022. Austria won 1-0 to advance to the quarterfinals. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
sports
Mead hat trick powers England to 8-0 rout of Norway at Euros
England's Beth Mead, center left, scores her third goal, England's 8th, during the Women Euro 2022 group A soccer match between England and Norway at Brighton & Hove Community Stadium in Brighton, England, Monday, July 11, 2022. England won 8-0. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
energy and resources
Equinor says all oil and gas fields affected by Norway strike to be fully back up in days
FILE PHOTO: Equinor's logo is seen at the company's headquarters in Stavanger, Norway December 5, 2019. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins
energy and resources
Oil tumbles as recession fears spur worries of demand destruction
FILE - In this April 24, 2015, file photo, pumpjacks work in a field in the Permian Basin near Lovington, N.M. Top officials with the largest Native American tribe in the United States are renewing a request for congressional leaders to hold a field hearing before deciding on federal legislation aimed at limiting oil and gas development around Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The Navajo Nation has struggled for years with high poverty rates and joblessness, and the tribe’s legislative leaders say individual Navajo allottees stand to lose an important source of income if a 10-mile buffer is created around the park. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)