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In the early 70s, the authorities in the USA set out stricter requirements for what car bumpers should be capable of withstanding. A big factory in little Norway took up the challenge.

Direct electric heating of pipelines replaces the use of chemicals on the seabed, saving billions of kroner on the continental shelf.

The “GassOpt” software modelling tool, which was conceived in the 1990s, has created a great deal of value for Statoil – and for the Norwegian people.

In the 1950s, a young Norwegian got himself a thorough training in the newly invented transistor on the other side of the Atlantic. Back at home, he made an important contribution to turning Vestfold into Norway’s “electronics county”.

The riches of the continental shelf had to be brought up from ever greater depths as the pace of the petroleum age quickened; innovative thinking was essential.

In 1958, Norwegian building researchers published the first of a series of construction detail leaflets. Research results and practical experience were to be disseminated in such a way that they would rapidly be brought into use.

The Norwegian climate has always placed heavy demands on building design. Global warming is putting it under even more strain.

Statoil’s Hywind pilot installation off the southwest coast of Norway  is the first full-scale floating turbine in the world. But it was born indoors.

More efficient energy use and renewable resources by themselves are not sufficient to save the climate; carbon capture and storage are also essential.