NORWAY PARTLY OPENS GAS MARKET TO FOREIGN UTILITIES
November 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE POTENTIALLY valuable natural gas market of Norway has been opened partly for non-Norwegian utilities by legal pressure from the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Surveillance Authority. It had threatened to take oil and gas-rich Norway to the EFTA Court over rules that not only prevented foreign gas companies operating in the country, but blocked their third party access to existing pipelines. That is because, as a member of the European Economic Area (EEA) law, Norway has to comply with European Union (EU) laws on freedom of movement of ...
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