expected by the middle of 2013, by which time the company will employ between 50 and 60 permanent staff at the Sullom Voe Terminal. The project will see the construction of a subsea gas hub at the Laggan field; [...] using up all the capacity of the two 18 inch pipelines for the first four years. The company will provide six connection points on the pipeline allowing others to link in to the infrastructure. The second pipeline [...] ready to award the key construction contracts. The company said the project is vitally important for the UK energy supply as it will introduce the first gas link from the west of Shetland to the UK mainland

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remains on ice, having been stopped a year ago. Just now, Mobil is out there on the Frontier, working with the Jack Bates, a deepwater capability semisubmersible which the oil company summarily dumped a few [...] litigation. The Bates is close to the new boundary and started the 214/4-1 well on April 26. Wood Mackenzie says of the quest: »The operator is believed to be targetting a sizeable gas structure to the north [...] operations on their fishing grounds. The fact that only one dissenting voice was heard when the Faroese parliament debated the terms of the agreement means the deal must have been fair to the fishing industry

strongly believes in the possibilities on the Norwegian continental shelf, but can at the same time see clouds in the horizon. – There are a lot of exciting areas, but at the same time the costs are increasing [...] conditions in the Atlantic margin, Faroe Petroleum has a lot to offer as a license partner. After only two years on the Norwegian Continental shelf the company has already managed to become a respected player [...] director of the Norwegian subsidiary company of Faroe Petroleum,. Since we started in 1998 the company has established an impressive portfolio with shares in 48 licences on the Faroes, UK and Norway. The Norwegian

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Jeremy Cresswell There can no longer be any doubt about the success of this year?s pioneering offshore drilling campaign, thanks to the determination of Amerada Hess and other members of the Faroes Consortium [...] hence the note of disappointment in Elttur?s announcements about the BP and Statoil wells. But an immense amount of valuable information was obtained from both ? the kind of data that could make a real [...] with the Amerada Hess news. Subject to a wholesale collapse in the price of oil this winter, it looks as if FK can look forward to a favourable reception when its shares begin trading ahead of the second

area on the back of the UK Schiehallion and Foinaven discoveries, and following the boundary agreement between the UK and the Faroese in 1999 the industry embarked on exploring the Faroese shelf with no less [...] uncover. In the meantime the Faroese can take some comfort in the fact that the UK Rosebank discovery operated by Chevron seems to be a success. This could mean a lot to the prospectivity on the Faroese side [...] active in the 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

on of the Sullom Voe Oil Terminal much beyond what we have originally envisaged. It is the first piece of fixed infrastructure going out west. There is a lot of exploration going on to the West of Shetland [...] voiced as regards to the impact the advent of the oil industry would have on the islands? pristine environment, the traditional economy, and the specific Shetland way of life, namely the islands? unique identity [...] all, the oil multies wanted something from the island community ? namely a landfall for oil from the huge fields in the East Shetland Basin ? rather than the islanders longing for the influx of a completely

time to gather the flocks, as the autumn hills are walked. In many places, this is a very special time of the year when families, neighbours, and friends come together. There is much talk about sheep, weights [...] crucial for the islands’ main export: salted cod. By then, the immense importance and total dominance of sheep and wool in the agricultural society had slowly come to an end, and the richness of the sea had [...] delightful, especcially when up in the hills, to hear people naming and identifying the sheep. In the "Sheepbook", by Robert Joensen, there are around 250 names for the colours of sheep.##med4## ##med5## ##med6##

to spend. On the island of Samos, within sight of the Turkish coast, we stayed with a lovely pair of English teachers who treated us to the only bed in the apartment and an eagerness to talk politics. [...] together in Klaksvik. After a week of marriage, we left my home in rural America, a place of big highways, big sky and a big family, to travel across the Balkans, a land of young coun­tries, local cheese [...] through the European Union queue. Lacking a purple passport, I realized quickly that being American is not as valuable on this side of the Atlantic. The next phase of our trip was to visit several of the