Statoil

Platts in lockdown as investigators continue oil probe

17 May 2013

European anti-trust investigators searched the offices of price agency Platts and at least one major oil company for a third day on Thursday, hunting for evidence of possible price manipulation on...

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EU raids oil majors - BP, Shell and Statoil - over price-fixing probe

15 May 2013

European authorities have raided the offices of oil majors Shell, BP and Statoil as part of a probe into suspected manipulation of prices, one of the biggest cross-border actions since the Libor...

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Algeria finds dead Canadian militants as hostage toll rises

21 Jan 2013

Algerian forces have found the bodies of two Canadian Islamist fighters after a bloody siege at a desert gas plant, as the death toll reached at least 80.

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Algeria desert siege death toll may rise as missing sought

20 Jan 2013

Governments scrambled on Sunday to track down missing nationals after the bloody end to a gas plant siege in the Sahara that saw Islamists kill at least 23 foreigners and Algerians, mostly...

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CNPC, Statoil in asset-swap talks

27 Apr 2007

Norway's Statoil is in discussions with PetroChina parent company China National Petroleum Corp on swapping assets with the mainland oil giant, in a deal that would give CNPC its first oil and...

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Shuttle to become drill ship

3 Feb 1997

Den Norske Stats Oljeselskap (Statoil) says one of its multipurpose shuttle tankers (MST) under construction in South Korea is to be outfitted for use as a drill ship under the name Odin.

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Opinion

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Statoil charters product carrier

Den Norske Stats Oljeselskap (Statoil) has chartered the product and chemical carrier Monte Bello for two years.

The 14,000-deadweight-tonne vessel is under construction at Italy...

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Statoil stays in Nigeria

NORWEGIAN state-owned oil and gas company Statoil will not pull out of Nigeria despite widespread condemnation of the Nigerian regime for its execution of nine political activists. 'We are deeply...

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BP makes strong find in complex region to exploit

BRITISH Petroleum (BP) has struck oil and gas off Vietnam at an exploratory well north of a large gas field discovered last year, but it says the find has yet to prove commercially viable.

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