taste a flavour of the mood in the islands, look no further than the film Local Hero, a huge hit in Britain when it opened in cinemas across the country in 1983. One scene in particular struck a chord with [...] fallen steadily from 30,000 in 1901 to just 17,000 in 1971. »One of the most important benefits of the oil era, and one often overlooked, is the way it restored confidence in the people of Orkney,« he said [...] decades of decline - and began a remarkable transformation of the islands' economy - when it first arrived in December 1976. Today it is difficult to envisage the excitement of residents - particularly

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 oil was brought [...] choose to make their homes in the Faroe Islands and push up the prices in the same way as happened in Aberdeen forcing them beyond the reach of most of those not involved in the industry which, although [...] July 6, 1988, 167 men died in the accident most in the North Sea industry said could never happen. Red Adair was not amongst them. The famous Texan fire fighter had warned in the 1970s that whatever precautions

hydrocarbons in the Faroes area were found on land and comprise coal deposits, organic waxes found in basalt, and inconclusive traces of oil mixed with water in the Lopra-1 experimental well drilled in the early [...] five commitment wells to drill under the four six-year licences awarded in the First Faroe Islands Offshore Licensing Round announced in August 2000. However, while we know that one of the three wells drilled [...] (6005/15-1) was drilled this summer in licence area 003, 130km southeast of Faroes to a total depth of 4000m, terminating in Paleocene sediments. Rolf Magne Larsen, who is in charge of the Norwegian company

the first commercial production of hydrocarbons. This will undoubtedly have a major effect on the Faroese economy and society. In this context, it was interesting, at the recent NORA conference in Torshavn [...] than Norway. In population terms it is one tenth of the size, and in GDP terms even smaller. Accordingly, a relatively small scale of activity has had a large relative effect on Newfoundland. In the Faroes [...] has seen initial work in Faroese waters, but already such companies are beginning to look for opportunities in the UK sector and beyond. This is certainly the pattern we have seen in Newfoundland; local

Oljuleiting -This is a great result. We?re delighted that the Faroese Partnership?s first well in the Faroes has been succesful and we look forward to following up on this succes with our drilling programme

gott, og teksturin er meiri jarðbundin og einfaldur enn tekstirnar annars hava verið leingi. »Stuck In A Moment You Can?t Get Out Of« ein deiligur sangur; um trupul viðurskifti millum tvey, ella er tað [...] sum kom, sá og sigraði? Hin vakrasti sangurin á hesari fløgu haldi eg; í sterkari kapping við Stuck in a moment...í løtuni í hvussu er. Hvat heldur tú Petur? Hetta er eitt lag, sum Bono skrivaði aftaná [...] drekin helt sær bert nøkur fá sekund. Men burtur úr hesum kom avgjørt vakrasta lagið á fløguni. Samdur. »In A Little While« - jamen er hetta ikki »Under the Bridge« við Red Hot Chili Pepper? Men tó - ein klárur

vóru við. Move it Cliff Richard, hvørs veruliga navn er Harry Rodger Webb, og varð borin í heim í India 14. oktober 1940, gjørdist ein av teim fáu bretum, sum megnaðu at fáa fótin fyri seg innan upprunaliga [...] sum náddi eins høgt - Grand Prix sangurin frá 1968 "Congratulations"- var meiri enn 10 ár. It?s all in the game Í 1980 hittir Cliff drotningina og fær OBE-heiðursmerkið. Í túninum syngja øll "Congratulations"

»In Dublin?s fair city, where girls are so pretty, I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Mallone«...... Soleiðis syngja vit í reiðiliga aðruhvørji veitslu, hildin verður bæði í Føroyum og aðrastaðni. Vit [...] triðja og fjórða regla vera stuttar og ríma móti hvørji aðrari. The Limerick Packs laughs anatomical In to space that?s quite economical But the best one´s I´ve seen So seldom are clean And the clean one

?The Secretary of State cannot lawfully decide whether to grant licences in the 19th round of offshore licensing, without first considering the provisions of the Habitats Directive?. Fleiri oljufeløg hava

doorstep in the early 1990?s. Instead Britain is finally carrying out constitutional reform in a conscious attempt to adapt to its modern place in the world. New centres of poser have been created in Scotland [...] Dock in Grimsby when old Hákun Djurhuus stepped off a trawler to pursue fishery negotiations with the British in the 1960?s. Neither was there much recognition of Atli Dam?s status when he was in Britain [...] previously been possible. In terms of specifics, the areas which immediately come to mind for the Faroese to focus on are: ?Collaboration in developing Oil and Gas resources in the North Atlantic. ?Encouraging