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Posted on 05/09/2026 6:25:05 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
In case of any doubt about Norway’s commitment to maintain – and expand – its production of gas and oil offshore, the energy minister, Terje Aasland, has a pithy response: “We will develop, not dismantle, activity on our continental shelf.”
This week, to the alarm of environmental campaigners, he announced that three gasfields off the country’s southern coast would reopen by the end of 2028 – nearly three decades after they closed – to meet a shortfall caused by the impact of the war in Ukraine and disruption to supplies from the Middle East.
The decision will help keep gas and oil production at about the 2025 level – which has been stable for almost 20 years – and stay broadly the same for the rest of this decade. Norway has 97 offshore oilfields, three of which came on stream last year, and its Norwegian Offshore Directorate expects “100 and beyond” within the next two years, still producing at least the present level of 2m barrels of oil daily.
The Barents Sea, in the high north, is the new gas and oil frontier – with the prospect of mining for seabed minerals between northern Norway and Greenland, a more distant prospect after initial surveys by the Norwegian Offshore Directorate – an agency of Aasland’s department – showed potential.
“Norwegian offshore production plays an important role in ensuring energy security in Europe,” Aasland tells the Guardian. “The world, and Europe, will have a need for oil and gas for decades to come and it is crucial that Norway continues to develop its continental shelf to remain a reliable and long-term supplier … and (with) a high level of exploration activity.”
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Gas is natural.
Sooo, then the Earth isn’t really on fire? I want a refund.
so is Oil ,LOL
The con is dying.
They’re catching on...blame it on the wars...but you shut them down because you listened to chicken little and his climate eggheads.
Quick. We need another summit, the dupes are getting confused.
Looks like to me they're becoming unconfused.
Good thing Greta already found a new gig.
AI: “As of early May 2026, gasoline (petrol) prices in Europe are high, with an EU average around €1.81 per liter ($7.40 per US gallon…..”
….and EU airlines have cancelled more than 3,000 routes….we won’t throw in their food increases in detail….AI, “ In the euro area, cumulative food price increases since 2019 reached as high as 57% in Estonia by late 2025,..”
In short, the EU is disintegrating….no tears….maybe they should stop flushing money down the filthy Ukrainian toilet? Next up? Their Recession turns into Depression….
Sounds quite fine. Were one to change the headline, it would still sound quite fine.
"The United States doubles down on oil and gas production"And so on."Argentina doubles down on oil and gas production"
"Germany doubles down on oil and gas production" and Ruhr coal.
Even "The UK doubles down on oil and gas production in the North Sea."
F@#$in morons. That is what everyone said all along 20+ years ago when the Greens and other arseholes scammed everyone with crappola about solar and windmills.
If you do not have baseload power you have nothing.
The UK and Germany on the other hand....
Notice these clowns want the energy, just NIMBY.
Fine with energy from ME, Russia, but use what you have?
Are you mad, climate change…😎
GODD!!! ABOUT TIME!!
Grrrrrrreta will NOT be happy!
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