Norway is Europe's largest oil producer, the world's third-largest natural gas exporter, and an important supplier of both oil and natural gas to other European countries.
Norway is the largest oil producer and exporter in Western Europe.
Norway is the world's third-largest exporter of natural gas after Russia and Qatar, and, as of 2012, Norway was the sixth-largest dry natural gas producer.
Its oil production counters Russian leverage on Europe. Its borders peak into the top of Russia and its coastline provides observation of the Barents Sea and the Norwegian Sea.
In any conflict involving Russia (currently the only nuclear equipped nation invading/annexing its neighbours) it will be very strategic.
I don't understand, does Israel export a ton of natural gas or oil from the West Bank? I was unaware that Israel, or that part of the Middle East in general had much in the way of oil or gas. Have they made massive discoveries there?
He referred to "[Russia being] currently the only nuclear equipped nation invading/annexing its neighbours", i.e. Israel is another such country.
(Btw, for the record, there are significant gas reserves in that part of the world and the government recently pushed for expansion in the sector. Nothing to do with this conversation, but I thought I'd mention it.)
Well Russia hasn't annexed any whole countries either :)
Plus it's military is killing way less people, doesn't mass deploy depleted uranium weapons (as far as I know), isn't made of lunatic "Christian Knights", etc.
Ahh, I thought he was referring to the majority of the comment, not just the last line.
That's interesting, reading up on it a bit more, it seems to be similar to the US oil/gas boom in that it's all in shale oil. I had heard the quote that starts out this article: http://www.the-american-interest.com/2012/07/02/israels-saud... and it stayed with me.
Norway is Europe's largest oil producer, the world's third-largest natural gas exporter, and an important supplier of both oil and natural gas to other European countries.
Norway is the largest oil producer and exporter in Western Europe.
Norway is the world's third-largest exporter of natural gas after Russia and Qatar, and, as of 2012, Norway was the sixth-largest dry natural gas producer.
(from http://www.eia.gov/countries/country-data.cfm?fips=no)
Its oil production counters Russian leverage on Europe. Its borders peak into the top of Russia and its coastline provides observation of the Barents Sea and the Norwegian Sea.
In any conflict involving Russia (currently the only nuclear equipped nation invading/annexing its neighbours) it will be very strategic.