with about 75 directly affected by this round of job losses. BP staff and contractors are being offered voluntary redundancy. Decisions will be finalised by next March. Hundreds of contractors work at [...] 1997. However, a with the Shetland Islands Council, including compromise over rent payments, staved off threatened closure. Paul Dymond, Sullom Voe general manager, said: ?the (changes are) all about ensuring

It is a special feature of the Faroese licensing regime that Parliament has to approve the area on offer as well as the general terms and conditions of the licenses. Therefore, the time span from the moment

than those included in the area on offer in the first licensing round. In addition to blocks adjacent to existing licenses the blocks northwards of the area on offer in the first round still appears to [...] that the potential beneath the basalt is vigorously pursued. The Faroe Bank Channel When the area on offer in the first licensing round was selected, oil companies nominated blocks to be included. The nomination

growth, with the offshore operators spending less and less on capital projects. Perhaps this will offer more opportunities for the explorers seeking oil under Faeroese waters. Competition for exploration [...] West Africa and Brazil all attracting significant attention from the oil majors. But recent activity off north-west Europe has shown there is plenty there to interest oil companies. Three exploration wells [...] drilling the chances of a find will continue to improve.? The next drilling campaign is likely to kick off next summer by Italy?s Agip, and is not likely to be followed until 2004, the earliest time that BP

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 in [...] Shetland exploration tally is around 130 wells, plus a further 50 or so appraisal wells. Once thought to offer huge potential, west of Shetland reserves now fall a long way short of early estimates. In its 1990

leikar eisini við í Tórshavnar Saxofonkvartett, Brekkubrothers - við bróðurinum Trúgva, og við Take Off, sum ætlandi geva fløgu út skjótt. Blaðið Gaffa hevur umrøtt Hans Petur og hevur gott at bera fløguni

var nóg gott, sum vit sýndu í Litava, og vit vóru uppsettir upp á at vísa, at har var talan um ein off-day. - Tíbetur gav venjarin okkum langt tjóður hesaferð, og eg haldi eisini sjálvur, at vit løntu honum

Hesin nýggi bilurin, ið kemur at avloysa LandCruiser GX90, verður eins og forgangarin, ein ektaður "off roadari" við eins góðum eginleikum til at koyra á ósløttum undirlendi sum á vanliga koyrivegnum. Bilurin

frá at skapa so øgiliga nógv. Teir fáa eitt láturliga bíligt brotsspark og so eitt mál, sum er tjúkt off-side. Umframt tað, so høvdu teir ikki so nógvar møguleikar, tí vit fingu hildið teimum frá teimum heilt

"And through it aaaaaaaaal, she offers me...." - sang Jens Marni í sjónvarpinum. Og hann kláraði seg stak væl, sjálvt um hann ikki líktist Robbie Williams sum so. Sangkappingar eru vældámdar fyri tíðina