Category: Energy
Exxon Mobil Corp Chief Executive Darren Woods is reorganizing the company’s refining operations, part of a push to boost profits amid volatile oil and natural gas prices, the company said on Monday. The changes at the world’s largest publicly traded oil producer are the most sweeping to date by Woods, who became chief executive in […]
Source: Reuters
Category: Automobile / Transport
A few days after announcing its massive electric vehicle charging infrastructure expansion, European electric utility E.ON elaborated on its actual plan to rollout charging stations across Europe – including an ‘electric highway’ of ‘ultra-fast charging stations’ that will connect Norway to Italy. Aside from the announcement that they will have as many as 10,000 charge points by 2020 […]
Source: Elctrek
Category: Energy
Can Norway dump $35 billion in oil and gas investments, and simultaneously convince that same industry to throw money into the country’s own fossil-fuel future? After the initial shock of learning that Norway’s $1 trillion wealth fund wants nothing to do with it, the petroleum industry says both are in fact possible. But the mood is shifting. […]
Source: Bloomberg
Category: Energy
On Thursday 9 November, the opening of the Valemon control room was celebrated at Sandsli in Bergen. Valemon will be the first platform in Statoil’s portfolio to be remote-controlled from land. “This is a vital milestone for Statoil. We have had land-based surveillance and control of offshore operations for a long time, however, the remote […]
Source: Statoil
Category: Culture / Lifestyle
Verdens sjette største økonomi har en sentral rolle på veien mot to-gradersmålet. Statsminister Erna Solberg varslet enda tettere samarbeid da hun i dag møtte Californias guvernør Jerry Brown. – California har tatt en viktig rolle i internasjonalt klimaarbeid under guvernør Jerry Brown, sier statsminister Erna Solberg. Solberg roste Californias guvernør Jerry Brown for hans innsats på […]
Source: Regjeringen