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P155	Monday, 16 December, 2002 Causes of Erosion	Kon-Kraft Releases Report on Capital and Profitability What Are the Causes of Erosion? Group Proposes a Centre for Information and Research in Oslo
P154	Monday, 16 December, 2002 Encouraging	Good News From Parliament Committee Impact Study Should Be Sufficient for Barents Sea Decisions Late 2003 Fiscal Frame Conditions Should Be Considered Inconsistent Left Socialists Basically Adverse to All Petroleum Activity
P153	Monday, 9 December, 2002 Waiting for #38	Parliament: New Models For State R&D Financing Supply Industry's Competitive Position to be Investigated General Assembly Rule Gone Tail Production to be Seen as "Upgrade Projects"?
P152	Monday, 2 December, 2002 Time to Stop Being Nice	Cluster Organisations Petitioning Parliament Minister Opens for Tax Debate Risk of Barents Embargo Until 2005 Or Worse Minister Indicates Barents Discoveries May Go Ahead Local Politicians Working for Oil/Fish Co-Existence Licensees Should Stand On Legal Exploration Rights
P151	Monday, 11 November, 2002 Incomplete Design	MPE Preparing Rules for Gassled Loose Ends About Incentives and Ownership
P150	Monday, 11 November, 2002 Unexpected Rescue	Labour Compromise About Petroleum Free Zones Policy Now Basically Same as Government's Petroleum Industry Saved By Delegates From Fisheries Regions Still Time to Build New Alliances
P149	Wednesday, 6 November, 2002 An Oil/Fish Alliance?	Oil Industry Promises Zero Emissions to Sea in the North Labour Party May Go For Petroleum Free Zones Oil/Fish Alliance Possible?
P148	Monday, 4 November, 2002, 2002 Holding Out For 2015	Government Submits Report on Domestic Use of Natural Gas CO2 Barrier Must Be Overcome Almost Everywhere Little Progress Likely Before 2015 in Absence of New Paradigms Good-Bye to Cost Effective Implementation MPE Still Avoiding Worst Mistakes
P147	Monday, 28 October, 2002 Housecleaning	MPE Wants More Power to Change Tariffs Petroleum Act To Cover More Onshore Facilities Effects Marginal, the MPE Should Avoid Claims to the Opposite
P146	Friday, 18 October, 2002 A Wanted Anomaly	Veto Right Instead of General Assembly Rule How Will Voting Rules Develop?
P145	Thursday, 3 October, 2002 Balancing Act	Steensnæs: Petroleum Tax System Designed for Major Fields Does Not Reject Fiscal Relief R&D, New Acreage Important to Achieve Perspectives
P144	Tuesday, 1 October, 2002 Voting	No MPE Instruction About Co-ordinated Statoil/Petoro Voting
P143	Wednesday, 25 September, 2002 Kidding the Kids	Climate Modelling IPCC Style Into Classrooms More than 17,000 Verified Scientists Say The Lesson is Flawed
P142	Friday, 13 September, 2002 The Daily Bigot	Dagbladet Claims Statoil, Hydro Support Warmongering Dictatorship in Angola If True, it is a Dictatorship Dagbladet has Promoted for Decades Most Others Believe in New Peace Accord and Reform Program
P141	Friday, 6 September, 2002 Norway/UK	Ministers Announce UK/Norway Co-operation Important to Move on New Gas Infrastructure
P140	Tuesday, 27 August, 2002 End of Discussion	Fjell Shelves Hydro Merger Debate
P139	Tuesday, 27 August, 2002 Barents Sea Condominium?	Olav Fjell Suggests Norwegian-Russian Barents Sea Cooperation
P138	Tuesday, 27 August, 2002 Corporate Governance	Statoil Reports on Corporate Governance Avoids Trap of Self-Denial Knowledge Capital Missing From Triple Bottom Line
P137	Tuesday, 20 August, 2002 A Step Back	Steensnæs: No Plans for Further Privatisation What Happened to the Billions from Restructuring? Petoro Harnessed on Sales, Swaps; Contrary to Parliament's Instructions
P136	Monday, 12 August, 2002 Out of Line	Rerun of Hydro Merger Idea From Statoil's Chairman Reprimanded for Solo Play Minister Says NCS Needs Both Companies Hydro Quite Clear: Not Good For Shareholders Chairman Also Says Statoil Should Grow Upstream Time for Statoil to Solve Its Own Problems
P135	Tuesday, 23 July, 2002 Political Litigation	EU Complaint Withdrawn in Deal With Statoil, Hydro Started as Politics and Ends as Politics
P134	Friday, 5 July, 2002 The True Face	Environmentalists Enraged Over Parliamentary Report Truth is They Want to Close the Whole Industry Useful Lesson for the Government Statoil Seems to have Learned Lesson New Anti-Snøhvit Action Today
P133	Thursday, 4 July, 2002 The Open Door	Open Door, But Limited Checkout Next Reform Should Be Licensing Criteria
P132	Monday, 1 July, 2002 A Missing Chapter	Parliamentary Report: Good Description, But Evasive on Means Parliament Must Add Chapter on Incentives
P131	Monday, 10 June, 2002 Failure	Only 6 Licenses in 17th Round Against 14 in 16th 18 Blocks, Down From 93 Nominated, 32 Offered Virtually No Competition Among Applicants Round Cut Down By Environment and Poor Competitiveness Serious Warning Signal For Authorities
P130	Monday, 3 June, 2002 Hard Evidence	ESA Accepts New Snøhvit Tax MoF Admits to Negative PTA Distortion Amended Rule Still Means More Tax NPV Than Under Onshore Tax Rules What About Other Fields in Same Area?
P129	Thursday, 30 May, 2002 Its Own Customer	Statoil Into Belgian Gas Power? Critical That Petoro/MPE Define Arm's Length Rules
P128	Wednesday, 29 May, 2002 Recruiting and Image	Statoil Most Attractive For Technology/Economy Students Consistent With Earlier OLF Survey High Scores on All Issues Except Environment
P127	Monday, 27 May, 2002 Fishing Trip	Progress Party Spokesman Opposes Hydro Sell-Down Claims Concern For Hydro's Future, Hidden Agenda Likely Meeting With Reiten Looks Like Fishing Trip Only Majority Against Privatisation Worst Signal to Market
P126	Wednesday, 15 May, 2002 Gasled and Directive	Companies Agree On Gasled Profits To be Limited to Normal Returns Government To Regulate Access and Tariffs Gas Directive To Be Integrated In National Legislation
P125	Tuesday, 14 May, 2002 Prudent	Ruhrgas: Statoil Stake Only Interesting as Part of Cooperation Dagens Næringsliv, Reve, Roland Negative to Statoil/Hydro Merger
P124	Wednesday, 8 May, 2002 Gas and the EU	German Gas Market Parties Agree to Voluntary Code European Gas Study Indicates Strong Role for Norway Definite Cost Advantage Compared to New Russian Gas Leverage for a Tougher Stand Against EU? Norway to be Observer Only in "Gas OPEC"
P123	Monday, 6 May, 2002 The True Choices	"Analysts" Pushing for Hydro/Statoil Merger Do They Expect Hydro to Sell its O&G Division Without Bidding?
P122	Thursday, 2 May, 2002 Abandonment	Abandonment Cost Sharing Act Ready for Abandonment?
P121	Friday, 12 April, 2002 Overdue	No Decision On Production Cuts Yet Steensnæs: Cuts Terminated if Price "Unacceptably High" More Frequent Government Intervention?
P120	Thursday, 4 April, 2002 Broken Promise	CO2 Tax to Continue Unchanged Petroleum Sector Not To Be Included In Quota System Pure and Simple Symbolism Destroying Cost Efficiency
P119	Thursday, 21 March, 2002 Time for Encouragement	ESA Leans Towards Accepting Bellona Complaint Oil Companies Downgrade Norwegian Sea 17th Round Too Meager for Majors SDFI Sales: Partial Oseberg Area Restructuring
P118	Monday, 11 March, 2002 Clarifying Positions	Hydro Says No To Merger With Statoil Labour Says Yes Government Supports Diversity
P117	Friday, 8 March, 2002 North Sea Round	Mature Areas: A Different Story OLF Proposes "Open Door" For Mature Areas
P116	Thursday, 7 March, 2002 Listen to Steensnæs	Industry Minister, Oil & Energy Minister Disagree on Diversity Can We Avoid Being Cornered By Unresolved Paradigms?
P115	Thursday, 21 February, 2002 A Matter of Pride	Listen to Akselsen and Berge Snøhvit a Victim Because of Environmental Merit, Not In Spite of It Use KonKraft to Define a Joint Strategy
P114	Monday, 28 January, 2002 Enron	Separating Real and Imaginary Intangibles The Importance of Knowledge About Knowledge Temptations of a Regulated Corporation
P113	Tuesday, 15 January, 2002 Brende Vs Brende	CO2 Quota Price No More than NOK 40? Brende: Quota System Must Not Benefit Today's CO2 Tax Payers State Secretaries Negotiating How to Interpret Sem Declaration