International expansion at Statoil in the 1980s and 1990s was initially directed at...
Statoil’s board resolved in December 1989 to establish a subsidiary in Thailand with an...
Oil prices fell to their lowest level for more than a decade in the autumn of 1986....
Seven years after the 1979 discovery of Troll, operator Norske Shell submitted plans for...
Norway’s offshore workers had great expectations of the 1990 collective pay settlement....
A strategic alliance with British Petroleum (BP) was announced by Statoil in late August...
Part of Statoils 1990 collaboration agreement with BP involved buying into the British...
Civil war and corruption were also making their mark on Angola, further south along...
Many good things can come out of a crisis. The oil price slump in 1986 meant the oil...
The Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991 and Azerbaijan’s emergence as an independent...
A shock wave ploughed literally across Stavanger and figuratively through all of Statoil...
Norne was developed with the first production ship on the Norwegian continental shelf...
The Sleipner East gas story is a dramatic one. A negotiating fiasco with the British was...
Three of four Xmas trees were in place over the pre-drilled wells on Sleipner East by the...
The 1994 winter Olympics at Lillehammer north of Oslo was acclaimed as a sporting and...
The European Economic Area (EEA) agreement, which came into force on 1 January 1994,...
Both similarities and differences between Norway and Brazil as oil nations have emerged...
If there is one occasion when you are going to check the weather forecast with particular...
Heidrun was the goat in Norse mythology who supplied the gods and their warriors in...
An interest in Ireland’s Corrib gas field was secured by Statoil through the first Irish...
Most Norwegians know that Troll is large. They may also be aware that this field ranks as...
Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves, mainly in the form of oil sands. Statoil...
A Chinese state oil company opened large areas off China to foreign companies in the late...
Statoil/Equinor has always had a reputation for being far advanced in developing and...
A speech in early 1999 and a holiday cabin visit in 2006 might not seem revolutionary. But...
Could part of the solution to global food shortages lie in gas from Heidrun and a...
Statoil and Saga Petroleum were both established in 1972, but had very different starting...
Statoil acquired its third CEO in September 1999, when Olav Fjell took office. The biggest...
Formidable progress has been made in office technology by Statoil/Equinor since the...
A desire to grow and become more like the international oil companies emerged early on in...
Statoil and Shell each owned a stake from 2000-14 in the other’s refinery at Mongstad in...
