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            <title><![CDATA[Norway Faces Pressure to Curb Power Exports as Prices Surge]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2022 11:08:52 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Norway’s Wealth Fund Lost $74 Billion in First Quarter]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lars Erik Taraldsen]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2022 11:35:46 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Superyachts Detained in Spain, Another Denied Fuel in Norway]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2022 19:28:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Norway Wealth Fund Prepares $2.8 Billion Loss on Russian Holdings]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lars Erik Taraldsen]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2022 11:21:37 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Norway Wealth Fund Reveals Gazprom, Sberbank Among Frozen Russian Assets]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lars Erik Taraldsen]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2022 19:42:02 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A neon sign displays the Gazprom Neft logo near an illuminated fuel price sign at a Naftna Industrija Srbija AD (NIS) gas station, majority-owned by OAO Gazprom Neft, in Belgrade, Serbia.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Norway Sets Deadline for Wealth Fund to Plan Russian Selldown]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lars Erik Taraldsen]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 17:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The Norges Bank building in Oslo, Norway, on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021. Norway&apos;s $1.4 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world&apos;s biggest, returned 0.1% in the third quarter, after its bonds and real estate holdings offset a slight decline in stock portfolio.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Norway Oil Giant to Start Exiting From Joint Ventures in Russia]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lars Erik Taraldsen]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 06:30:05 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Norway Decides to Drop Russia From $1.3 Trillion Wealth Fund]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lars Erik Taraldsen]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2022 18:18:31 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Norway Wealth Fund CEO Rejects Calls to Sell Russian Assets Now]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lars Erik Taraldsen]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2022 13:05:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Reindeer Herders Push to Reclaim Land From Norway Wind Farms]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Wind farms in Norway have spooked reindeer herds, impacting the livelihood of the Indigenous Sami. Despite a court win, the turbines are still spinning]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lars Erik Taraldsen]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2022 06:00:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Energy Firm Aker Is Looking to Buy More Assets in Norway's Oil and Gas Sector]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lars Erik Taraldsen]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2022 14:23:36 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The Oseberg A offshore gas platform operated by Statoil ASA stands illuminated in the North Sea as a vessel passes 140kms from Bergen, Norway.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Equinor to Keep Pumping as Much Gas as Possible Through Summer]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lars Erik Taraldsen]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2022 14:56:55 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Europe Can’t Tap Norway for More Gas With Equinor Maxed Out]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lars Erik Taraldsen]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:10:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[NATO’s Stoltenberg Wins Norges Bank Job in Contested Choice]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ott Ummelas]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 10:39:58 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Var Energi Valued at $9.1 Billion in Rare Big Energy Listing]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Swetha Gopinath]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 06:54:38 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A $1 Trillion Stock Owner Sticks to ESG Path Despite Fed Moves]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lars Erik Taraldsen]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2022 16:28:33 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Norway Wealth Fund CEO Warns Days of High Returns Are Over]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lars Erik Taraldsen]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2022 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Nicolai Tangen, chief executive officer of Norges Bank Investment Management, right, and Oystein Olsen, governor of Norway&apos;s central bank, before a news conference presenting the annual results of the sovereign wealth fund in Oslo, Norway, on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. Norway&apos;s $1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s biggest, returned 14.5% in 2021, equivalent to about $176 billion, after stocks rose.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Eni’s Var Energi Plans IPO in Bet on Strong Future for Gas]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lars Erik Taraldsen]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2022 06:58:18 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Equinor Wants the World’s Last Drop of Oil to Come from Norway]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lars Erik Taraldsen]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2021 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The field centre of the Johan Sverdrup oil field in the North Sea west of Stavanger, Norway, is pictured on January 7, 2020. - Johan Sverdrup, situated some 140 km off the south western coast of Norway and operated by Equinor, is the third largest oil field on the Norwegian continental shelf, with expected resources of 2.7 billion barrels of oil equivalent. (Photo by Carina Johansen / NTB Scanpix / AFP) / Norway OUT (Photo by CARINA JOHANSEN/NTB Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[ESG Ratings Scores ‘Very Rarely’ Help, Norway Wealth Fund Says]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lars Erik Taraldsen]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:06:04 GMT</pubDate>
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