Statoil’s Sleipner gas platform, some 250 kms off Norway’s coast, in the North Sea, on May 15, 2008. Daniel Sannum-Lauten/AFP/Getty Images
Norway has approved plans to reopen three gas fields in the North Sea that were shut down nearly three decades ago, a move the government says will support European energy security.
The Ministry of Energy said on May 5 that it had approved development plans for the Albuskjell, Vest Ekofisk, and Tommeliten Gamma fields, all located in the Ekofisk area in the southern North Sea.
