Sosialurin you have in your hand has been prepared in co-operation with numerous Faroese companies that are participating in Offshore Europe 2007. In co-operation with companies that are active in the exploration [...] information in the Faroes. Our focus has primarily been on the Atlantic Margin. In the course of covering developments, we have been present at most of the ONS and Offshore Europe exhibitions in Stavanger [...] exploration for oil and gas on the Faroese Shelf. Sosialurin, founded in 1927, is the biggest newspaper in the Faroe Islands. Sosialurin has focused on the Oil and Gas industry for the last 30 years and is therefore

drilling started upon the first exploration well in south western part of the Faroe plateau. Drillings continued until 2002, when the last drilling from the first round was completed. Oil revenues however, did [...] In the Faroes not a single drop of oil has been produced yet, but this situation has not prevented income from large oil revenues. In total the Faroese society has made app. 200 million kroner directly [...] exploration in one way or another. Or more correctly, if we just look at part of these incomes. An overview compiled by Jarðfeingi shows that during the period from 2000 to the awarding of the first exploration

remaining in the Faroes for hydrocarbon exploration after drilling two dry wells?' Statoil answers this on several fronts. First it is a 30% partner in the exciting Rosebank-Lochnagar Field, discovered in late [...] constitute significant untested exploration potential in the Faroes. In 2006 Statoil and its partners did drill the Brugdan prospect in the Faroes (well 6104/21-1); an analogous structure to Rosebank. The [...] rate of 6,000 barrels a day. In addition and importantly, the structure of the Rosebank-Lochnagar field is similar to large structures mapped by Statoil and its partners in the Faroes offshore. These constitute

independent oil com­pany with expertise in all aspects of exploration and production, both offshore and onshore. All necessary infrastructure will be in place from day one in order to develop the current portfolio [...] working Norway, the North Sea and internationally. The company has licences in the UK, Denmark and Faroes, a number of projects in progress globally, access to technology and the expertise of around 30 employees [...] employees. GeysirPetroleum hf is an Icelandic oil company with licences in the UK, Denmark and Faroes. In the UK an oil discovery was made last year which will be appraised with three wells this summer

holding their own. Since the founded the company Thor in 1994, they have continually expanded their activities. Activity begun on a small scale in 1990, and upto 1997 mainly encompassed fishing vessels [...] vessels, but the fairytale does not stop here, because in mid-November 2007, the new seismic supply vessel “Thor Alpha” is set to join the fleet and in the autumn of next year a sister vessel, which has not [...] and painted. The Thor Alpha is 55 metres long and will cost in the region of DKK 76 million. The sister vessel, which is expected to be ready in mid-September next year is expected to cost app. DKK 80 million

til ampa hjá nøkrum, eins og harði rock- og punktónleikurin kanska var tað. Løg sum Roxanne, Message in a Bottle, I can’t stand loosing you og Every little thing she does is Magic eru kend løg hjá bólkinum [...] vónleyst at fáa fatur á júst eftir eina konsert og bussarnir líktust teimum, ið ein sær myndir av í India og har á leið, so fullir vóru teir. Við hjálp frá vinfólki eydnaðist at “tumla” og tveir fittir mans

experience in a radio programme in this way: »It’s a cosmic experience. The Faroe Islands is a country which is – and is not. It is in constant flux. It keeps disappearing: One moment it’s lost in the fog [...] ly.« This is – in my view – a beautiful poetic description of The Faroes. And let’s stay in the poetic corner. Danish author and jazz singer Suzanne Brøgger, who visited the islands in March this year [...] fog, and suddenly – there it is again in all its magnificent beauty. Like magic. Like reality and fairytale in one. In these majestic surroundings you become almost painfully confronted with life’s vulnerability

here in the Faroes we are waiting in suspense for the result of a future American presidential election. In is of course exciting in its own right if a woman was to become the very first President in the [...] Madeleine Albright. The very first woman to be elected to such a high office in the history of America – today Ms Condolisa Rice holds this office. Mrs. Albright sat there in Oslo surrounded by an aura of [...] just small group have the opportunity to hear them in the Nordic House. Personally, I »met« Mr Clinton on the 2nd of November 1999, at a Remembrance Day in Oslo – the fourth anniversary for the killing of

be possible to have more women participate in politics. Even if female representation in the Faroese Parliament is just 9%, 0% in local government and 23% in town councils we believe that it is possible [...] unequal situation dominant in our society. We do hope that such a visit may become possible in the future! Yours sincerely Demokratia Demokratia is a committee appointed by Parliament in 2006 to increase the [...] monitoring her campaign and give her our full support. Irrespective, if she is successful in her endeavour to become the first female President of the United States or not, she has already become an inspiration

Take Jónas Bronck, for example. Born in Copenhagen, the son of a Danish Lutheran minister, he was raised in the Faroes. As one could well imagine, growing up in the Faroes Jónas was quite at home on the [...] proceeded to found Rome. A few odd centuries later in 1639, Jónas Bronck sailed westward across the Atlantic in his sturdy Fire of Troy and settled a bit of land in the new world that would later be known as The [...] collection of books in America. Now Jónas knew the realities of living in a harsh environment and he brought along good quantities of building supplies (scare at even the best of times in the Faroes) and skilled