Norway stalls all deep-water drilling
No drilling on deep waters will be conducted before the circumstances around the accident in the Gulf of Mexico have been clarified, Norway’s Minister of Petroleum and Energy said at a conference today.
-I will not allow new deep-water drilling before we have good knowledge about what happened with the Deepwater Horizon and what this will mean for Norwegian legislation, Minister Terje Riis-Johansen said at a conference in Svolvær, Norway, today.
The conference was part of the ongoing hearings on the Management plan for the Barents Sea and the Lofoten area, a document which will provide the framework for petroleum activities in much of Norway’s High North.
-We are now working with the 21 round of licenses [and] that round will be conducted in the light of what we are now experiencing in the Gulf of Mexico, Mr. Riis-Johansen said in the conference, a government press release reads.
