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Making the arctic risk free

(Photo: Ship in the Arctic, DNV)   Arctic Competence Escalator, also known as ACE, is a joint competence program between classification society Det Norske...

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Oil companies look to norway

  Top Ten Basin The government’s 78% exploration tax incentive has really made an impact on the number of companies coming to Norway, says Malcolm Dickson,...

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New opportunities for floating lng production

The industry expects the number of new offshore field developments to rise in the future, outpacing new shale, onshore and heavy sands. According to Jarand...

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INTSOK prepares for new international challenges

When the Norwegian oil companies and suppliers first created the partnership INTSOK with the government in 1997, the industry was in a state of crisis.  The...

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New maritime opportunities in the arctic

According to a recent report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, USA, scientists expect the Arctic to be nearly free of...

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Industry focuses on lng as key technology

The question was raised at a roundtable discussion on June 4, 2013 entitled “The Changemakers,” which included top leaders such as Andreas Sohmen-Pao, BW...

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Search & rescue in the high north

Over the past year, Norway’s maritime research strategy program Maritime 21 has worked with 10 partners on a pre-project report to create SARiNOR, a joint...

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Saithe: Prices set to rice in 2014

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Salmon – slight production increase

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Stavanger Widens Energy Partnership

Stavanger has played a key role for most of the WECP’s history. The mayors of Stavanger have held the presidency position for the longest period. The most...

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Record year for norwegian seafood

  Norway's fisheries minister, Elisabeth Aspaker, calls the strong export figures for 2013 nothing other than a Norwegian fairy tale. She believes the export...

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Fish health breakthroughs

Norway’s aquaculture industry has grown to more than 1 million tons mainly due to an average 10% annual increase in the past decade. Part of the growth is fr...

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An ocean of possibilities

Norway is the world’s second largest farmed fish exporter, despite the fact that it still farms only one species at a time. The law prohibiting multi-trophic...

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Hydropower Storage Solutions

The two projects recently received funding from the Norwegian Research Council’s large-scale program for energy research ENERGIX. Launched in 2013, the NOK 4...

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Norway’s new startup scene

MESH was co-founded in February 2012 by two young Norwegian entrepreneurs Anders Mjåset and Audun Ueland. It began with just 15 IKEA desks and 15 friends tha...

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Building cod hotels along the coast

Norway is currently experiencing a cod bonanza. The country agreed in 2012 with Russia to a record setting Barents Sea cod quota, which increased Norway’s...

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Onshore Wind Opportunities for Foreign Investors

The anticipated rise in onshore wind projects is incited in part by the EU Renewables Directive and the green certificate incentive scheme with Sweden that...

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Green innovation in maritime technology

According to a study by DNV GL for the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association, a number of developments in the next decade will impact the way ships are designed....

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Top 500 companies in Norway 2014

Kapital, the largest business publication in norwegian, has for the last 40 years published a list displaying the biggest companies in Norway.    Rank Compan...

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Ocean of opportunities for farmed fish

The Stavanger-based non-profit group Blue Planet leads the ARENA program Ocean of Opportunities in 2011 with the support of Innovation Norway, Norwegian...

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High Risk Renewable Projects

In August 2013, four projects were chosen out of 49 entries to receive NOK 35 million. The selected projects will develop new battery technology, solar cells...

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Sending snakes to mars

The Norwegian independent research organization SINTEF, together with the Norwegian Space Centre (NSC) and CIRiS (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in...

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Increased interest for Norwegian cod in China

The exhibition, with its 1.200 exhibitors from 40 different countries, saw 25.000 visitors over the three days. Sprawling over an extensive 28.000 square...

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Norwegian seafood, fishing & aquaculture

Norway is one of the biggest exporters of seafood and we strongly encourage everyone around the world to eat more seafood. If you are looking for new ideas o...

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Top exporters of Norwegian Cod

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From Oil to Wind & Back Again

Norway Exports Oil & Gas Norway has been quick to utilize its offshore petroleum technology for offshore wind projects. So why not use wind to extract oil?  ...

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Moving Goods from Roads to Sea

Shortsea Promotion Center Norway initiated the pre-project study last year as part of wider European efforts towards environmentally friendly transport. The ...

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Petroleum technology for ocean farming

Norwegian company Ocean Farming, a subsidiary of SalMar, has developed its ocean farm concept on similar technology used to anchor floating oil platforms to...

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Norwegian-Brazilian research partnership

Brazil and Norway share much of the same petroleum challenges. Each has resources in demanding environments, complex geology, and deepwater subsea field...

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Norwegian Stockfish and Klippfish in high demand

As long as one can remember, enormous schools of cod have been migrating south from the Barents Sea to the Lofoten region in northern Norway to reproduce.

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