Quote Originally Posted by Alex_krsk View Post
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...