Choosing Condeep concrete platforms for Gullfaks, where Statoil had an 85 per cent holding...
The deal was done. Put simply, Norway was to pay about NOK 1 billion, Swedish carmaker...
Geologists normally hunt for subtle changes in their seismic data. These might represent...
The first construction stage of Statoil’s office building at Forus outside Stavanger was...
A first step into the wider world was taken when Statoil CEO Arve Johnsen boarded a flight...
Expectations of finding oil were great when Norway’s central and northern continental...
All self-respecting petroleum engineers have heard of the Olga computer programme, which...
Norway was in economic trouble in 1977 as a result of interlinked oil and shipping crises....
On May 8, 1981, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh visited Statoil on Forus. The...
Landing Norwegian petroleum in Norway was the sixth of 10 oil policy “commandments”...
The whole 880 kilometres of the Statpipe gas pipeline system was laid on the Norwegian...
A key target for the USA during the Cold War was to weaken the Soviet Union’s military...
Statfjord offered a unique opportunity for a young and ambitious Statoil to gain...
Statoil wanted to expand the Mongstad refinery in order to take more of the crude oil from...
The Storting (parliament) may have voted to establish Statoil in 1972, but an underlying...
A network of underwater pipelines running from the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS)...
Statoil was starting to secure substantial crude oil supplies during the 1980s, which...
A message that West Vanguard had suffered a blowout and would be evacuated was picked up...
Troll was not only a gas giant, but also contained big oil reserves. The question of what...
The Troll field ranked as one of the world’s largest offshore gas deposits when...
The Tommeliten project might not have been Statoil’s biggest, but was highly efficient....
They say Norwegians who claim to express themselves best in English speak neither tongue...
The first producing wells on Gullfaks were not on a platform, but stood on the seabed. But...
Drilling unit Ross Rig spudded the first well for operator Statoil in block 34/10 west of...
Norway’s largest oil field has been both a prestige project and a gilt-edged revenue...
Statoil wanted to expand abroad, and an attractive target lay immediately to the south. It...
Huge cost overruns on a refinery expansion and new crude oil terminal at Mongstad north of...
Harald Norvik took over from Arve Johnsen to become Statoil’s second CEO from 1988 to...
Norol was created in 1976 as an independent state-owned distribution company for petroleum...
In April 1988, it became clear that expansion and modernisation of Statoil’s Mongstad...
