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 ImagesNorway 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.
Norway to Reopen 3 Gas Fields Shut Down in 1998
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