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A joint venture between Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) and Norway’s Meteorological Institute led to their creation of a website
about weather that’s spreading across the globe. It’s become a favourite site to check local or international forecasts, even
though officials behind yr.no claim they’ve never had any ambitions for such huge international growth.
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The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (Oljedirektoratet, NPD) unveiled new studies of southeastern portions of the Barents Sea
and the area around the Arctic island of Jan Mayen on Wednesday, and predicted the sea floor contains enormous amounts of
oil and gas. The new resources are expected to boost earlier estimates of undiscovered resources by at least 15 percent, perhaps
much more.
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The operators and licence holders for the Johan Sverdrup, Dagny, Draupne and Luno fields in the North Sea will study the setting
up a hub for the supply of electrical power from land. The study, which has been initiated by the Ministry of Petroleum and
Energy, is headed by Statoil and involves the operators Lundin and Det norske oljeselskap, as well as the other licence holders.
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