gaining local anchorage and knowledge,« says Jan Terje Edvardsen. »We want as much of the activities as possible to benefit Faroese society, partly because it is natural to exchange know-how, but also because [...] subsoil in a specific area, so we have been able to use our existing knowledge of the Danish sector and the experience we have gained from well to well to optimise the drilling work.« Jan Terje Edvardsen [...] money by avoiding having to set up an organisation in Denmark themselves just to drill one or two wells.« Another reason for the savings is that the drilling team has been able to optimise the drilling work

gaining local anchorage and knowledge,« says Jan Terje Edvardsen. »We want as much of the activities as possible to benefit Faroese society, partly because it is natural to exchange know-how, but also because [...] subsoil in a specific area, so we have been able to use our existing knowledge of the Danish sector and the experience we have gained from well to well to optimise the drilling work.« Jan Terje Edvardsen [...] money by avoiding having to set up an organisation in Denmark themselves just to drill one or two wells.« Another reason for the savings is that the drilling team has been able to optimise the drilling work

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

this type of survey is far from standard, and, from a practical point of view, much more difficult to handle. Notwithstanding the challenges inherent in configuring a set of airguns to produce ultra-low f [...] although basalt is relatively »opaque« to conventional seismic sources, it should be more »transparent« at low frequencies. Hence it may be possible to obtain reflections from beneath the basalt by using special [...] Ziolkowski is continuing to refine his ideas, and Veritas is trying to make an even better low-frequency source using novel airgun designs. If everything proceeds according to plan, the new source will

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

had been forced to leave to find work, to come back to the islands. And that reversed the trend which had seen the Orkney population decline over the first 70 years of the 20th century.« To date, more than [...] it is difficult to envisage the excitement of residents - particularly those living on the tiny island of Flotta - when news broke that Orkney was to benefit from a massive oil boom. To taste a flavour [...] well away from the main centres of population. That meant that the massive disruption during the construction phase was far less damaging to the Orkney community« The Flotta Terminal was built to handle oil

background that the UK Labour government was willing to hand down far reaching powers to the local government of the islands, which enabled local councillors to negotiate on a more equal level with the oil bosses [...] massive oil terminal at Sullom Voe will be able to handle oil extracted from Faroese wells. A simple look at a map of the North East Atlantic reveals how close the infrastructure, which is being developed [...] for obvious reasons ? his cards very close to his chest when it comes to the prospects of handling future oil from the Faroese sector. Fact is that the terminal has received a major £50 million overhaul

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

only there can it be unmade. It must be taken deep into Mordor, and cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came" Elrond frá "Ringanna Harri" um Ringin. Tíðin er komin har vit aftur fara at fylgja [...] her uppá 10.000 Uruk-Hai besærkara orkar, hesir ið brøla á málinum The Black Speech: "Rrwaaa harra farr rrara!". Borgin hjá Sauron; Baraddür í ríkinum Mordor leiðir til bardaga móti menniskjans siðmenning [...] mánaðir at gera allar upptøkurnar. Miðaldrar professarin "I will take it. . . I will take the Ring to Mordor. . . though I do not know the way" Hobbiturin Frodo, úr Ringanna Harri. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

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