Vacant traineeship at NBCC from September 2009
In that regard we are looking for a company interested in sponsoring the traineeship. The trainee would e.g. work 3 days a week for NBCC and 2 days a week for your company from the NBCC office.
Contact NBCC for more information: info@nbccuk.com

Norway and Scotland are connected on many levels, through business and leisure, through history and through a general sense of having a lot in common while also having a lot to offer one another.

NBCC invites members and non-members to participate in our Taste and Travel event in Aberdeen on 9 October. We will organise a mini-exhibition, and in addition there will be a programme of speakers and a networking event.

The D.L.E Story - Dynamic Liquid Explosion
The D.L.E Story, by NBCC member Bernard Rangel, is an oil-canvas collective curated at the club/restaurant venue, The Rhythm Factory in Whitechapel. Dates: 12 Aug – 12 Sept. Read more

SALE: 10-40% Discount on selected items
NBCC Member Bellissima B Jewellery & Accessories is having a sale from 27 August to 6 September. Read more

Norway's oil fund surges, now worth $396bn
Norway's massive oil fund surged in value to NOK 2.385bn or $396bn in the second quarter of this year - boosted by a surge in the value of global share prices - an increase of NOK 309bn since the end of the first quarter, in figures released on Friday by the central bank. Read more

Acergy gets new CFO
Norwegian oil and gas contractor Acergy on Thursday announced that Simon Crowe will be appointed to the position of Chief Financial Officer with effect from October. Read more

Statoil claims subsea world record on Ormen Lange
Norway's state-owned oil and gas producer StatoilHydro is claiming a world first in subsea innovation, announcing that the world’s deepest hot tap operations on a pressurised pipeline have been performed on the Ormen Lange field in the Norwegian Sea during early August. Read more

Aker Solutions profit up on big contracts
Super supplier-contractor Aker Solutions reported higher second-quarter profits on Thursday, and said its billion-dollar backlog built on a sub-sea upswing and big jobs had the company “well prepared to meet the global economic downturn”. Read more

BG starts survey in Norwegian Sea
U.K.’s third largest producer of natural gas, BG Group, has started a seismic survey of its Norwegian Sea license as it expands beyond the North Sea into the Arctic. Read more

Power line in place
The 13-kilometre submarine cable to carry electricity from the Hywind floating wind turbine has now been installed and tested in the sea north-west of Stavanger. Read more

DONG Energy targets more wind farms in Norway
DONG Energy is to build and run the Norwegian onshore wind farm Nygårdsfjell 2 in the Narvik municipality in Northern Norway. Read more

Opera 10 beta 3 released
Norway-based Opera Software ASA, the developer of the Opera web browser, announced yesterday that Opera 10 is now available in its third beta version from http://www.opera.com/next. Read more

Good results in a strong market
Marine Harvest ASA achieved an operational EBIT of NOK 257 million in the second quarter, compared to NOK 145 million in the corresponding quarter last year. Solid demand and tight supply led to strong prices. Read more

Herring industry could save millions
Fish-processing industry could save energy worth tens of millions of kroner a year by adopting the results of recent research. A recent research report by SINTEF Energy Research and the Norwegian Seafood Federation (FHL) points out that there is a huge potential for energy savings in Norwegian companies that specialise in processing dried fish and pelagic species such as herring and markerel, as well as in fish-farming. Read more

New record as 600,000 smolts transported in Norway
A FISHING company has just completed the transfer of the largest quantity of living salmon between two northern zone countries. The operation was carried out by Samherji's fish farming subsidiary Islandsbleikja when a ship docked at Kirkenes in northern Norway with 600,000 living salmon smolts worth around £650,000. Read more

Cermaq profit from higher feed and fish prices
Norwegian aquaculture and fish feed company, Cermaq ASA has reported a second quarter profit (EBIT pre fair value) of NOK 81.4 million (£8 million). This compares to a loss of NOK 31.2 million in the same quarter last year. Read more

Starts of new homes in Norway drop 40% Y/Y Jun '09
Norwegian housing starts plunged 40% year-on-year to 1,500 in June 2009, preliminary figures by Statistics Norway showed today. Seasonally-adjusted, the number of housing starts totalled 1,420 in June 2009, down from 1,754 in the preceding month and from 2,345 a year earlier. Read more

Key policy rate unchanged
As expected by most financial experts, Norges Bank’s Executive Board at its meeting Wednesday decided to keep the key policy rate unchanged at 1.25 per cent, stating that the financial market situation has improved. Read more

Strong decrease in Consumer Price Index
The Norwegian consumer price index (CPI) decreased by 0.6 per cent from June to July 2009, according to Statistics Norway. The prices of clothing and footwear together with airline fares contributed most to the decline. Read more

Passenger record for Norwegian
Low-fare airline Norwegian carried 1.05 million passengers in July, a 16 per cent increase over the same month last year. It is the first time the airline breaks the one million passenger barrier. Read more

Norwegian sea eagles have landed in Scotland
The donation of between 15 and 20 white-tailed sea eagle chicks originating from Western Norway is a vital part of the reintroduction programme for the UK’s largest and most spectacular bird of prey. Read more

Football: Norway - Scotland 4-0
Norway beat Scotland 4-0 in front of a home crowd of 24,000 in a vital World Cup qualifier Wednesday evening. John Arne Riise, Morten Gamst Pedersen (2) and Erik Huseklepp scored for Norway. Read more

Information meeting, Executive MBA in Shipping, Offshore and Finance
BI Norwegian School of Management offers the Executive MBA in Shipping, Offshore and Finance in close cooperation with Nanyang Business School, Singapore. Read more