I worked in Norway for a year and am a frequent business visitor there. I took a sabbatical year from Aberdeen University to work at a research institute in Oslo, where with an old friend Terje Lind I wrote a book on Norwegian Oil Policies.
IN JUST three months, production from Shell/Exxon's Brent Delta platform will be shut down for good and preparations for decommissioning the huge structure will start.
New research by Professor Alex Kemp and colleague Linda Stephen at Aberdeen University points to just how sensitive future production from the UK North Sea has become to oil&gas price fluctuations, a situation exacerbated by the cost of finance.
MELROSE Resources, the Edinburgh-based oil and gas operator, said yesterday it had made a gas discovery and achieved first production from two new field developments in Egypt.
