Commentary, 7/8 2011

Making Waves

Cast a stone into still waters, and it can be quite fascinating to see how far the ripples will travel, ever outward.

In the North Sea, the “ripples” from other oil provinces began to arrive in the 1960s – and it’s good to remember that here on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, that Ekofisk was discovered in 1969 and the first production began in 1971 – and now, at 40, the field continues to produce.