Thread: "Russophobia" and "Russophilia" :)

Originally Posted by Hanna

Statoil is similar in its structure, to Gazprom I believe.

Statoil is technically a bramch of BP. While on mass media it's more or less independent.
But i may be mistaken, information is pretty old.

Really? Are you sure about that?

I'm afraid i'm. But let me check for some sources

I thought that Statoil (state owned Norwegian official oil company). owned the Norwegian oil and BP or anyone else bought off them. In Scandianvia you see their oil tankers and petrol stations everywhere. I think it sells gas as well.

One of my clients owns a network of gas stations with signs "LUKOIL" whereas he only has a long term contract for supply with lukoil and nothing else.
In the US there are a bunch of gas companies with different fancy logos which are just branches of chevron

Originally Posted by Alex_krsk

Statoil is technically a bramch of BP. While on mass media it's more or less independent.
But i may be mistaken, information is pretty old.

Oops, I was editing my post while you replied

I'm no expert on this either, but I don't think BP owns Statoil.
I recently worked at BP, I think I would have heard... And it's not in the Wikipedia article.
BP had a couple of thosand employees in Norway, which I remember from this previous job...

Statoil must employ 10,000 people, at least!

Anyway, their situation IS similar to Russia's, and they have a lot less oil than Russia.
They will face the end of oil and gas before Russia does.
Hopefully they have sorted something out by then - or it's back to fishing and knitting colourful cardigans for them...