exploration and production (E&P) company with a focus on active exploration. Roots Gas is another recently formed E&P company which is concentrating on buying producing assets in the southern gas basin. In [...] the field with more to follow. Abbot Group is a third Scottish-headquartered energy services company which is looking to expand around the world and which is also more likely to acquired than be bought [...] strategy is to focus on its producing assets plus low risk exploration and new development upside that are material enough to provide significant growth for a small, start-up company but which would not

information event is to inform about Faroese as a second language program, which is based on the Common European Framework of References for Languages (CEFR) and what possibilities foreigners have on learning Faroese [...] ella sum tað verður sagt í almennu lýsingini; … in relation to Faroese as a second language course for non-Faroese speakers starting in the fall. Á skeiðinum verur dentur á at læra føroyskt, men eisini at [...] Faroese, society, and culture as well as how and where you can sign up for the Faroese as a second language program. David Im og Durita Kastalag frá Útlendingastovuni taka lut í SALT sunnudagin, og har

Shelf is covered with volcanic material and it is of paramount importance for Faroese authorities that the potential beneath the basalt is vigorously pursued. The Faroe Bank Channel When the area on offer [...] Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and will eventually be examined by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, which has been established under the Convention. Water depths on the slopes of [...] was discovered. Implications for the future Concluding from only 3 wells is dangerous but at least the 3 wells have provided large volumes of new and useful information, which will have to be investigated

North-west Africa before viable finds are recorded, and, beyond that, there is the West Africa bonanza, which for now seems unstoppable. On the opposite side of the Atlantic to the North Sea, the story of oil [...] the recent 17th licensing round is a prospect known as Fles Nord. This is thought to harbour large gas resources and is therefore of particular interest to Norsk Hydro, which also controls the stunning Ormen [...] CRESSWELL One word sums up the hunt for oil and gas on the Eastern Atlantic Frontier ? from Portugal to Lofoten off Norway ? slow. There are few commercial discoveries to show for the enormous effort made, except

and whales are essentially non-human persons. And that is why it is my sincere conviction that the killing of a whale, the killing of a dolphin, the killing of a pilot whale is – the moral equivalent of [...] their sentience. This is not about killing a cow, a sheep, or a pig raised for human consumption. This is akin to killing a mountain gorilla, a chimpanzee, or an orangutan. It is simply ethically and morally [...] powerful weapon ever invented on the Faeroes – the camera! There is no place for this kind of barbaric tradition in the world of the 21st Century, in a world where species extinction is escalating, where the oceans