Then followed the long grind to get legislation finalised and onto the statute book, the decades-long boundary dispute with the UK settled, and the first licensing round launched. The last mentioned and [...] for future work in the area.? Stakeholders in the Longan well are operator Statoil (35%); Phillips Petroleum (30%), Enterprise Oil (20%) and Veba Oil & Gas (15%). The rig used was the big semi-submersible [...] of the UK sector Suilven discovery, and was eventually completed on September 19. The well was taken to a total depth of 4,354 metres, again in the Paleocene, and was side-tracked. Again, it fell to Elttur

pioneer in using ultra-long streamers to help provide additional information on deep geology, and the streamer towed in the experiment was 12 km long - twice the length normally used for exploration. Detailed [...] teenagers? If so, did you notice that the music sounded »duller« than it would if you had been in the same room as where it was being played? In fact, the reason the music sounded dull is not just because [...] second), and this in turn means that the airguns have to be both deeper in the water, and four or five times the normal size used for exploration. As a result, the equipment required for this type of survey

dependent on the daily fluctuation of the oil price and the Faroes Islands must carefully balance the huge opportunity which the industry can bring with the retention of the islanders? core values and the very [...] of the islands. The first gas was discovered in the North Sea by BP in their West Sole Field in 1965 and two years later Amoco found the first oil in the Arbroath field. It was 10 years before the first [...] because of the oil industry and the challenge for the Faroes, if oil is discovered in its waters, will be to capitalise on the opportunity yet retain the unique charm of the islands. Aberdeen and the North-east

, as the objective was to test whether Marjun extended into UK territory. This well was spudded on the Cambo tract by the West Navion drillship on 1 September in the Faroe-Shetland Trough and was plugged [...] water, close to the UK/Faroe boundary in the White Zone, the well was drilled to a total depth of 4275m in a deepening operation, after reaching the commitment depth of 3830m. While the other two wells [...] 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 has also been slow to unfold, though the potential of Eastern

the World The waters around the Faroe Islands are said to be the cleanest in the world. The perfect mix of the warm Gulf Stream from the south and the Arctic waters from the north produce a paradise for [...] published an article about The Faroe Islands by the journalist Stephen Metcalf on the 25th of March this year. The headline went: “Into the Mystical Unreal Reality of the Faroe Islands”. I’ll quote from this article: [...] out cultures to the point of lost identity, things have actually combined in favour of the Faroese. In that sense bad weather has formed the surroundings, the skills and the very soul of the Faroese in a

of a new political strategy the Faroese Government decided to merge the Trade Council and Tourist Board in the beginning of this year. This was done in the realisation of the fact that development of trade [...] destination? The fact that our country is a small archipelago in the middle of the big ocean in the periphery of western society makes us quite unique and special. Many consider islands in the ocean to be [...] inspiration for us. At the FlyFaroe 2007 convention this spring, travel writer Eoghan Corry spoke about the recent rise of Irish tourism. He explained how the primitive folk image of Ireland was turned into a strength

indisposed, when he was observing the mass-slaughter in the East Harbour in Tórshavn. There´s no comparison between the bayonet lessons and the whales-slaughter: The kapokdummy was not bleeding and no [...] Officer with the British Trust for Ornitology. Fellow of the Royal Society Edinburgh. In 1948 he authored the book The Atlantic Islands, a Study of the Faroe Life and Scene. (Wikipedia) The Faroe Islands [...] Islands were occupied by the British forces in 1940. The writer of this letter was present when the soldiers, Lovat Scouts, from Scotland were trained how to kill the enemy (dummy) with fixed bayonets. One