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By the end of the year, the oil company Equinor (formerly Statoil) will present to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy a proposal on how to transport oil from the giant Johan Castberg deposit to customers .
A large majority of Storting said this summer that it wanted a crude oil terminal in Veidnes, near Nordkapp. The alternative is that oil is loaded from smaller vessels to large oil tankers on the ground and sent to the market.
"The only acceptable solution is that Equinor decides to build a terminal in Veidnes, there may be a reduced terminal, but the oil is landing," said Aps Hege Haukeland Liadal, head of the approval of the Castberg building approved by the Storting.
She now fears that Equinor is not following the signals sent by the company when it launched the concept of Johan Castberg with oil terminal in Veidnes in Finnmark in 2013. At that time, the champagne corks in the Finnmark appeared and expectations were high.
Clarification of the law
"We will bring a clarification by the end of the year, according to the notes presented in the development and operation plan (PDO), said in an SMS addressed to Aftenposten the spokesman Presidency of the Norwegian Continental Shelf at Equinor.
In addition, the company does not have any other comments before its conclusion.
Battle of profitability
Oil companies operating in the north formed a separate industrial project called Barents Sea Oil Infrastructure (BSOI) in 2015. The project studied the landing, but they were not able to 39, identify a cost effective solution up to now. As a result, oil from the Goliat field has not been landed. Oil production was not big enough.
There are now several possible developments in the Barents Sea after Johan Castberg. As a result, Finnmarkings and others report that it is now necessary to build a Barents Sea oil terminal in Finnmark.
Must provide jobs for support
Runar Sjåstad (AP) of Finnmark shows that oil companies are still facing growing skepticism, highlighting the debate over oil activities in Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja (LoVeSe). Recently converted to Nordland Ap, the county team now says no to the LoVeSe oil companies. It's a decision that paves the way for the Spring APS Spring meeting: Say no.
"In Finnmark, the oil industry is a desired activity, although our main industry is fish, oil and gas is an additional bone to stand on, and without legitimacy via local ownership, the oil industry will have evil, said Sjåstad.
"We are seeing increasing skepticism about Equinor and other players driving community resources, which is why people do not see the local ringing effects," says Finnmarkingen.
Fight as old as the oil industry
Landing and training effects of onshore oil activities are as old as the oil industry in Norway. Already in 1971, the Storting had adopted "The Ten Oil Bites".
Frode Alfheim, head of the LO-related Energy and Industry Division, said the most important offer was for Norway's main resources to be landed in Norway.
The federation organizes employees of the oil industry. He says a land terminal will create jobs for people living locally.
"A landing terminal is the best way to secure the local value creation of the oil industry," he said.
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