terms, not to waste a second opportunity. The second boom, albeit less dramatic, has arrived, the promises have been kept and great care has been taken this time to try to avoid any more boom to burst scenarios [...] dependent on oil and when in 1986, with no warning, the price plummeted from $30 to less than $10 in less than a month the city was rocked to it?s granite foundations. It was estimated that 6000 out of 28,000 [...] report prompted a fundamental change in how safety offshore was handled. The responsibility for safety was taken away from the Department of Energy and handed to the Health and Safety Executive. In tandem

of the Atlantic to the North Sea, the story of oil has also been slow to unfold, though the potential of Eastern Canada is said to be considerable. And, in Greenland, there is nothing to show for efforts [...] 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 in the Norwegian [...] Belford Dolphin. Geological analysis points to the right conditions for hydrocarbons to be present, but will they be there? Will there be a sealing mechanism to contain the hoped for prize? The Marjun success

mountain top. Far, far away. There were mixed feelings inside of them. What will he do? (...) The faith is born from what is heard. How can they hear if no one is there to tell them? Go to the world and [...] and tell them of me. Go to the world, I will be with you« Meðan lagið koyrir uppá sítt allarbesta, kemur upplestur av brotinum í Bíbliuni, har hendan søgan stendur skrivað, og brýtur tað feita við sanginum

Commission in 1993, provides a clue as to how events were being watched at the time. Referring to the decision by Copenhagen in 1992 to cede mineral resources rights to the Faroese Home Rule government, Olafsson [...] company is expected to float on the London Stock Exchange early next year in a bid to raise £10-20million to finance its participation in the great, slow-pace Faroese oil race. ?We?re ready to go ? waiting for [...] about events from the Clair find through to the ?90s is almost non-existent. There are not even references to the period in the 1993 Report of the Faroese Hydrocarbon Planning Commission to the Faroese

brow and make a "what? You´ve got to be kidding me." "You were the one who wanted to know me Wanting to know my name. I gave you a smile and tossed my hair Wanting to know the same." "We wrote together [...] Cliché. But that´s how it always starts That´s how it started this day. Me and the girls were at a party We all were having a blast Then suddenly a stranger arrives Hey, it´s ´x´ from the past. He looks [...] alone in my room There´s been a hole in my heart." "I decided to go out this weekend To this "club" DJ - show. I´m joking around, talking to friends And hey, what do you know." "I saw you dancing on the

the smoke rings of my mind Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow ­ Mr Tambourine Man vísir [...] magic swirlin´ ship My senses have been stripped, my hands can´t feel to grip My toes too numb to step Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin´ ­ Hvat er tað fyri skip, sum her ve rður sungið um? Svarið [...] hand in your ticket And you go watch the geek Who immediately goes up to you When he hears you speak And says, How does it feel To be such a freak? And you say, Impossible As he hands you a bone ­ Men