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P302	Friday, 23 December, 2005 Boxed In	No Barents Awards in APA05 Only Two Firm Wells in Entire Round Goliat Believed to be Commercial How to Reach Critical Mass in the North? What About Some Diplomacy With Majors? Snøhvit's Oil Should be Reconsidered
P301	Friday, 9 December, 2005 Who is Extremist?	Government Agencies Negative to E&P OLF CEO: Environment One Consideration Along With Others Environmentalists: Must Be Overriding Interest Bellona Leader Leaves OLF Committee in Protest
P300	Friday, 2 December, 2005 Kinderegg	OLF Proposes Tax Against Quota Swap Would Give Government More Budget Room Quota Costs May Disappear Earlier than Tax
P299	Sunday, 20 November, 2005 Norway and the Majors	24 Companies Apply in 19th Round Number of Blocks Applied for Not Published BP, ExxonMobil Not on List No Shell Applications for Barents Sea How Can We Keep Majors in Our Main Frontier Region?
P298	Friday, 18 November, 2005 Zones III	SV Leader Kristin Halvorsen Accepts Non-Permanent Protection Enoksen, Halvorsen Agree Re-Opening is Up to Future Parliaments Long Time Perspectives in Examples Enoksen Says More than Nordland VI Will Be Protected Now Mentions Acreage in Barents Sea
P297	Wednesday, 16 November, 2005 High North	Foreign Minister Presents High North Policies Petty Party Politics Disturb Stateman's Image
P296	Tuesday, 15 November, 2005 Zones II	MPE Minister Says Permanent Protection Would Be a Mistake "New Government More E&P Friendly than Old" Environment Minister to Comment in Parliament
P295	Monday, 14 November, 2005 Zones	Zone Concepts Inflating No More Clarity on Policies Ambiguity About 19th Round
P294	Wednesday, 2 November, 2005 MPE Deputies	Anita Utseth From Pertra to MPE Anne Tingelstad Wøien Personal Adviser
P293	Monday, 24 October, 2005 Risk Highlighted	Go-Ahead for Goliat Well After Temporary Stop Order from MoE Unacceptable that System Can Allow Late Stop Orders Only 10 Exploration Wells Spudded in 2005 So Far
P292	Friday, 21 October, 2005 Northern Visions	Consultants Describe Long-Term Barents Perspectives World Will Hold Norway Responsible for Resource Development Norway Must Prove Itself to be Preferred Resource Manager Necessary to Clarify Intentions for Barents North and Contested Area Continuous Activities Required for Optimal Regional Effects Is Norway Able to Decide on Required Determination and Visions?
P291	Wednesday, 19 October, 2005 Green Fading	Upside for Barents Tug-of-War Improving Enoksen on E&P Friendly Side of Centre Party Minister of Environment Without Earlier Green Commitments Ministers of Fisheries, Industry Strong E&P Supporters Minister of Foreign Affairs With Strong Barents Focus Trade Unions Vetoed Labour Dynasty, Akselsen Auxiliary Damage
P290	Friday, 14 October, 2005 Not Bad, For Now	No Barents Embargo 19th Round Proceeding as Planned, Probably APA 2005 As Well Only Nordland VI Protected for Four Years Now Later Delimitation of Protected Area Crucial SV Incentive Now for Early but Strict Management Plan Key to Solution is Environment Minister From SV MPE to the Centre Party, Probably Marit Arnstad Even Stronger Commitment to Renewables Than Expected Petoro Not Mentioned As CO2-for-EOR Planner
P289	Thursday, 13 October, 2005 Not Looking Good	Negotiations Complete, Platform Today at 16:00 New Government Members to be Presented on Monday Kristin Halvorsen (SV) Expected Finance Minister SV Expected to Get Minister of Environment No Exploration Outside Lofoten/Vesterålen Under Red-Greens Barents Exploration Embargo Pending Extended Management Plan - For How Long? Commitment to CO2 Sequestration/EOR Plan - As Well As More Subsidies for Renewables Petoro to Prepare for CO2 Trading Illusions Approved as Political Currency
P288	Wednesday, 12 October, 2005 Minority Dictate?	Professors Say Barents E&P is Safe Most Norwegians Believe the Same Increases Pressure on Socialist Left Party in Negotiations Negotiations in Crisis, Deadline Tomorrow
P287	Monday, 3 October, 2005 Green Power Socialists	Energy Directorate Expects 7 TWh of New Wind Power By 2020 Giant Wind Power Park Opened at Smøla Requires Large Subsidies, High Power Price Greens Deeply Split on Wind Power Gas Power With CO2 Sequestration in Addition Could Cause Target Overrun Why Not Simply Normalise Hydro Power Tax to Release Large Potential?
P286	Wednesday, 21 September, 2005 Mother of Picked Winners	Industry Group, Bellona Propose CO2 Value Chain State Corporation To Absorb Giant Risk Cost-Pushing Incentives Historic Success - or Historic Bust? Certain to Attract Red-Green Negotiators
P285	Thursday, 15 September, 2005 Mostly Downsides	Policy Changes Likely to be Mostly Negative for Oil & Gas Industry
P284	Friday, 26 August, 2005 New Regulation	MPE Proposes New Area Fee System New Regulations on Third Party Use of Facilities Approvals Required More Frequently Requirement to Report "Undesirable Events"
P283	Friday, 22 July, 2005 Technology and Adaptation	G8 Climate Strategy Without Enforced Reductions Global Concerted Effort on Technology, Adaptation and Energy Security Blair: Grandstanding Won't Provide Solutions House of Lords: Kyoto Ineffective and Naïve
P282	Thursday, 21 July, 2005 Partnership With the State?	Red-Greens Want Partnership on Research With Oil Industry Will Make Foreign Fabricators Meet Norwegian HSE and Labour Requirements Barents Sea Expected to Represent Most Serious Red-Green Internal Conflict
P281	Wednesday, 29 June, 2005 Shtokman	Statoil, Hydro, Gazprom in General Barents Cooperation Government-to-Government Agreement on Energy Gazprom May Ask Statoil/Hydro to Cooperate on Shtokman Project Plan Hydro Confirms it is Willing, Statoil Probably Willing As Well Novosti & International Media Hint Norwegians are Leading Shtokman Contest Hydro Believed to Negotiate US LNG Access
P280	Friday, 17 June, 2005 19th Round Offers	19th Round Announced< Industry Carefully Positive Green Still in War Paint
P279	Wednesday, 15 June, 2005 Who's Dirty?	Petroleum Fund Divests From Kerr-McGee on Ethics Ethics Council Considering Total in Myanmar (Burma) How Far to Take Guilt By Association? Relative Impact on Human Rights Situation Should Decide Council Should Turn Down Divestment From Total Mandela Said to Have Thanked BP and Shell for Staying Under Apartheid
P278	Monday, 13 June, 2005 Peak Oil	"Peak Oil" New Global Scare? Fits Agendas of Strange Bedfellows ExxonMobil: Growing Call on OPEC Oil Meeting Demand Requires Heavy R&D Effort Frontier Fossils Crucial Wishful Thinking About Renewables a Risky Business How Far Can We Trust the Saudis?
P277	Friday, 13 May, 2005 05-09	The Political Parties' Petroleum Policies 2005-09
P276	Thursday, 21 April, 2005 Akselsen	No Red-Green Shift For Akselsen Prefers Diversity to Statoil/Hydro Merger
P275	Wednesday, 20 April, 2005 DivestTerror Revisited	Mixed Success for DivestTerrror Campaign Halliburton, Cooper, GE Closing Down in Iran Expectations of War or Just Legislation? Liberals Main Force in Sudan Campaign
P274	Tuesday, 12 April, 2005 What’s Hydro Up To?	Hydro/Centrica Talks Terminated New Speculations About Statoil Merger
P273	Friday, 8 April, 2005 No Quick Fix	PR Guru Reprimands Industry But Main Problem Is With Receivers, Not Messengers Attention Must Be Paid to Paradigms and Knowledge
P272	Friday, 1 April, 2005 Research for Value	Higher Priority For Petroleum Directed Research Norway to Reach EU Targets by 2010 Balancing Targeted and Wide Research Committee Against "Dishonest Research"
P271	Sunday, 20 March, 2005 September to March	Centre Party Compromises on Barents Sea Petroleum Free Zones; No E&P Around Lofoten/Vesterålen Slower E&P; Queue System for Field Development Conservatives: Hybrid Barents Decision; Could Mean Anything Labour: Means Centre Party Accepts Exploration Environmentalists: Disappointing, But Positive Elements
P270	Friday, 4 March, 2005 Entrenched Debate	Global Warming: Marine Physicists Claim Final Proof Found Ocean Temperature Fit To Computer Models Still Another Report Breaks "Hockey Stick" Where are the Emergency Policies if Warming is Rapid and Real?
P269	Tuesday, 1 March, 2005 Nominations	19 Companies Nominates 61 Blocks for 19th Round 35 Blocks in Barents Sea Core Group of Nine Companies Nominating Through Four Rounds
P268	Thursday, 24 February, 2005 Striking for Fun	OLF/NR Call For Revised Strike Rules \| Option: Change the Definition of a Strike or Lockout
P267	Monday, 21 February, 2005 Looking Good	Most People Believe in Oil & Gas Industry's Future Oil People More Trusted Than Journalists Low Ethics Score is Still Best
P266	Monday, 21 February, 2005 Dementis Politicus	Opposition Forgets Why We Privatised Statoil Statoil Profits Show that Privatisation Worked
P265	Monday, 14 February, 2005 Golden Chance	Gunnar Frognes: Supply Industry Exceptional Opportunity National Companies, Majors Increasingly Dependent on Industry High Barrier for Entry to Advanced Market
P264	Monday, 31 January, 2005 Performance Leaps for Free?	Who Reaps the Profits of Technology? The Asset Manager as the Powerful Gate-Keeper The NCS Could Gain Advantage By Solving Externalities Problem From Challenge Driven to Profit Driven Implementation Not Just "Be Kind to Your Supplier Week"
P263	Wednesday, 19 January, 2005 Gassco Vs Statoil	Gassco Wants to Take Over Pipeline Operations and Maintenance Statoil Says Loss Will Hurt Core Competence Other Companies Support Gassco, Some Hesitate
P262	Wednesday, 19 January, 2005 Hindsight	Vold: Bad Timing of Tax Initiative Lund/Reiten: Debate Over Framework Conditions Cannot Be Shelved NPD Presentation Shows Timing Was Right, Except in Hindsight
P261	Sunday, 16 January, 2005 Porter	Continued Debate After Porter Visit Petroleum Industry Missed by Both Sides Is the Industry Really That Invisible?