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Four decades of Norway’s oil industry

A letter from the Norwegian Geological Survey made the position clear in a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1958: "The chances of finding coal, oil or sulphur on the NCS can be disounted". Norway looked unlikely to ever become an oil nation.




Then Esso and Shell discovered gas at Groningen in the Netherlands during 1959,
prompting a number of oil companies to turn their attention to the North Sea.


Full feature including video; StatoilHydro: "Forty years of Norwegian oil" 





 

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