Gas prices lift Norway’s August trade surplus to record
2022.09.15 02:41
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© Reuters. Offshore oil and gas platform supply vessels (PSVs) are docked at a pier in Stavanger, Norway, August 10, 2021. Picture taken August 10, 2021. REUTERS/Nerijus Adomaitis/File Photo
OSLO (Reuters) – Norway’s trade surplus rose to a record 197.7 billion Norwegian crowns ($19.54 billion) in August, boosted by soaring prices for its gas exports to Europe, national statistics agency data showed on Thursday.
With a daily output of around 4 million barrels of oil equivalent, almost equally divided between oil and gas, Norway has been a winner from the spike in global energy prices.
The country’s exports totalled 287.8 billion crowns last month, of which 61% came from , the data showed.
($1 = 10.1162 Norwegian crowns)
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