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Equinor’s first female platform manager retires
The first woman to become a platform manager of Equinor will soon join the ranks of the pensioners. At the age of 33, Margareth Øvrum (61) from Skien became platform…
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The oil fund, energy prices, taxes, housing and the Norwegian economy.
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Fewer burglaries during the Coronavirus outbreak
We have been more at home than usual in the first half of the year. This is more than likely the reason why the number of house and cottage burglaries was significantly…
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Decline in the hotel industry intensified in August
Although the ‘Corona summer’ in parts of the country did not turn out as bad as feared for the hotels, it is now going downhill for them in the cities, according to…
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The Oslo Stock Exchange started the week with a fall
Developments on the Oslo Stock Exchange were fairly neutral most of Monday, but turned around for the worse, before closing time. The main index closed 0.43 percent down…
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The northern supplier industry strengthened again in 2019
Northern Norway delivered goods and services to the oil industry for almost NOK 4 billion last year. The number of man-years increased in 98 to 1,749 man-years. A drop…
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No promise on VAT exception for electric cars after 2021
Minister of Finance Jan Tore Sanner (H) will not promise to maintain the VAT exception for electric cars by 2021, VG can report. For Norway to give consumers advantages…
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16% more forest in Norway the past ten years
There are 978 million cubic meters of lumber in Norwegian forests according to calculations done by Statistics Norway (SSB). In the past ten years, the average increase…
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The municipality of Bergen wants to lease the street for electric bikes
The municipality of Bergen wants to regulate the use of electric bikes by rewarding or punishing the providers based on the bikes’ data on where they are parked.…
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The labor market has bottomed out
The decline in the labor market may be slowing down, preliminary figures from Statistics Norway show. As of April, there was a large decline in the number of jobs in…
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Vy updates their app with real-time-viewing
You can now see how full your train is both in the Vy app and on the station screens in Eastern Norway and Vossebanen. You can also see where the trains are through the…
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The Norwegian economy is only 2.4% circular, new rapport finds
A total of 97.6% of the materials consumed in Norway each year are not reintroduced into the economy shows a fresh analysis. The rapports showing that the Norwegian…
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The housing price party may be over in 2022
From the spring of 2022, interest rates are expected to rise again. Then the current pace of increase in housing prices will also stop, DNB believes. The bank’s recent…
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Norwegian strongly affected by COVID-19 – 71 percent passenger decline, 8,000 furloughed or laid off employees and 140 grounded aircraft
Norwegian today reported its results for the first half year of 2020. The figures are as expected heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic with a net loss of NOK 5.3…
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New electric environmental boat to collect trash in the port of Oslo
The world’s first electric environmental boat of its kind was christened by environmental agent and godmother Tora Elgsaas (14) on thursday. The boat has the name…
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