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How could al-Kasim be so sure that Norway would find oil?
by AlexCoventry 5y ago
How could al-Kasim be so sure that Norway would find oil?
- dmoy 5y agoHe was not sure. They moved for family reasons, as described in one of the first few paragraphs of the article.
- AlexCoventry 5y agoHe was telling everyone who would listen that Norway would find oil, and needed to prepare itself. > His was a lonely, contrarian voice. After examining exploration results, he wrote a report that warned Norway was sleeping, that even though no one had found oil yet, it was only a question of time. And time was short: the country’s leaders needed to prepare Norway to become an oil nation, but they were doing nothing. “I was a constant reminder that they were doing everything wrong,” al-Kasim says pointedly. Only his closest colleagues would listen.
- MichaelZuo 5y agoI imagine he came to that conclusion only after he reviewed the exploration reports, maps, and other internal documents within the ministries.
- dgemm 5y agoI think he recognized from the exploration results that the local geology was very favorable even if they hadn't hit actual oil yet.
- dredmorbius 5y agoNorth Sea oil exploration dates to the 1850s. The modern era began ~1964 with commercial offshore drilling. That was four years before al-Kasim stopped by the office in 1968. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_oil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_oil