Mar 8, 2019

Norway's sovereign fund to drop oil and gas investments

Norway's $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund is expected to sell all its oil and gas holdings. The world's largest sovereign wealth fund owns $37bn of shares in oil companies such as BP, Shell and France's Total. Norway is western Europe's biggest oil and gas producer and its sovereign wealth fund, known officially as the Government Pension Fund, is used to invest the proceeds of the country's oil industry. "The oil industry will be an important and major industry in Norway for many years to come," it said in a statement. The government recommendation must still be approved by the country's parliament before going ahead. The advice follows a report from Norway's central bank in 2017 that dropping oil and gas investment would be a good economic move.

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