Oslo (AFP) Sept 20, 2022 - Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the largest in the world, announced Tuesday that it will require that the approximately 9,000 companies it has invested in worldwide achieve zero net carbon emissions by 2050.
Oslo (AFP) Sept 7, 2023 - Norway's massive sovereign wealth fund, the world's biggest, said Thursday it will close its representative office in Shanghai but the move will not affect its investments in China.
Oslo (AFP) Sept 20, 2019 - Norway's Equinor and Britain's SSE Renewables have been selected to build the world's largest offshore wind farm off the British coast, an investment of 10.2 billion euros ($11.3 billion), Equinor said on Friday.
Oslo (AFP) Sept 18, 2012 - Norwegian authorities said Tuesday they have opened an investigation into a substantial oil and gas leak on a production platform operated by BP off the coast of Norway.
Copenhagen (AFP) Sept 30, 2022 - The four leaks affecting the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea were caused by underwater explosions corresponding to hundreds of kilogrammes of explosives, a Danish-Swedish report said Friday.
Stockholm (AFP) Sept 29, 2022 - Nord Stream's operator said Thursday it was unable to immediately assess damage to pipelines linking Russia to Europe, threatening an indeterminate outage - after Sweden detected a fourth leak and NATO decried acts of sabotage.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 28, 2010 - Japan's Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara reiterated Tuesday that no territorial issue exists over an island chain at the centre of a bitter row with China, Kyodo News agency reported.
Paris (AFP) Sept 24, 2024 - OPEC said Tuesday that phasing out oil was a fantasy, as the Saudi-led cartel forecast that demand would keep growing until at least 2050, a key year in the battle against climate change.
London (AFP) Sept 8, 2023 - No offshore wind power projects received public funding in the latest round of support for British green electricity projects, which jeopardises plans to decarbonise the power sector by 2035, environmental groups warned Friday.
Port Harcourt, Nigeria (AFP) Sept 18, 2008 - Nigeria's newly appointed chief of defence staff on Thursday toured the strife-wracked Niger Delta where militants launched an oil war last weekend.
Abuja (AFP) Sept 3, 2012 - Nigerians from a region devastated by oil spills on Monday called on the president to take action, more than a year after a UN report said the contamination may require the world's biggest cleanup.
Lagos (AFP) Sept 13, 2013 - Negotiations between Shell and Nigerian residents affected by two oil spills in 2008 failed to reach a compensation deal Friday, with residents' lawyers calling the oil giant's settlement offer insulting.
Abuja (AFP) Sept 30, 2013 - Nigeria has announced two major initiatives aimed at improving its woeful electricity supply, entering a $1.3 billion (960 million euros) power plant deal with China and on Monday handing over state power assets to private investors.
Abuja (AFP) Sept 8, 2016 - Nigeria's presidency on Thursday said it had approved an external borrowing plan after the cash-strapped African economy plunged into official recession.
Abuja (AFP) Sept 22, 2011 - Nigeria's security forces on Thursday gave rebels in the oil-rich Niger Delta region one week to seek amnesty, an offer that has previously curbed violence in the turbulent region.
Lagos (AFP) Sept 22, 2017 - A top Nigerian official was scheduled to meet the Turkish ambassador Friday after hundreds of rifles allegedly from Turkey made it to the west African country this week falsely labelled as plumbing materials.
