Google faces Norwegian public sector ban
Norwegian public sector organisations will be banned from using Google Apps after the Norwegian data protection authorities ruled that the service could put citizens’ personal data at risk. The data protection authority said Google Apps did not c...
A Monster from the Deep
With relatively little fanfare on the international stage, Lundin Petroleum and Statoil (and partners) have just recently jointly discovered one of the largest oil fields ever found in the North Sea. The Aldous Major South - Avaldsnes discovery on the ...
Caging unilateral risk
There’s a great note from Marc Ostwald of Monument Securities this Thursday morning.And he gets right to the heart of the issue.The problem isn’t so much where...
Nordea hunts down a Norwegian interest rate typo
Price action in the Norwegian krone on Tuesday:Last week Norway’s central bank said it was holding interest rates at 2.25 per cent, but indicated through various data...
Blending Country Funds
Recently I disclosed selling out of Australia (which I expect to be temporary) over concerns about the housing market coming to fruition. We obviously can't know with certainty if there will be any meaningful fallout to the Aussie banks if things get u...
Blending Country Funds
Recently I disclosed selling out of Australia (which I expect to be temporary) over concerns about the housing market coming to fruition. We obviously can't know with certainty if there will be any meaningful fallout to the Aussie banks if things get u...
It’s all falling apart for Greece on Friday…
First the Norwegians may decide they’re not playing ball with the €25m they’re due to give Greece.And then Fitch Ratings throws in the towel on Greece’s BB+ rating....
Tech Talk – the top 30 oil producers, a review
These posts have been going through the EIA list of the top oil producers in the world, over the past few weeks, I thought I might just review them collectively, but briefly, before starting to look at individual countries and oilfields. Even the post...
Tech Talk – Lower second tier oil producers – Norway, Brazil, Iraq and Algeria
This current series of posts is aimed at an overview of the top oil producing nations, seeking to establish how the ranking of the countries is changing from the original table that EIA put out in 2008. After looking at the conditions governing the top...
North African gas supplies to the European gas market
With civil and bloody unrest spreading across North Africa and The Middle East, it is once again appropriate to look at the dependency of Europe upon imports of gas from North Africa. With the North Sea in decline and Norway struggling to meet supply ...
Norway Preparing for Balancing European Wind Power
This is a guest post by Paul-Frederik Bach. Paul-Frederik has more than 40 years experience in power system planning. He worked with grid and generation planning at ELSAM, the coordinating office for west Danish power stations, until 1997. As Planning ...
Another reason to flee north
It’s probably safe to say the Norwegian krone has already been pretty well tipped in 2011, given a certain well-known correlation:But there’s more to Norway than just oil....
