11.02.2015 - Oilman becomes milkman as Norway’s best jobs disappear
Norway’s oil industry, so rich it spawned the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, is struggling as oil prices plunge. When Joergen Langaunet started as a project planner at offshore engineer Aker Solutions ASA in 2012, he worked a lot of overtime. Norway’s oil industry, so rich it spawned the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, was booming. Then last year, he realised he was spending most of his time in the lunch room: His services weren’t needed. In September, as crude prices were on their way to the biggest plunge since 2008, Langaunet lost his job. Today he’s a regional manager for Tine SA, Norway’s biggest dairy producer...............................................Full Article: Source
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