New oil gamble pays off


(From left) Lovestad, Tronstad and Skorve, members of the team that made an oil discovery near an exhausted natural gas field in Norway’s waters, at Aker BP’s control centre in Trondheim, Norway. — Thomas Ekstrom/The New York Times(From left) Lovestad, Tronstad and Skorve, members of the team that made an oil discovery near an exhausted natural gas field in Norway’s waters, at Aker BP’s control centre in Trondheim, Norway. — Thomas Ekstrom/The New York Times

FIVE years ago, explorers at Norwegian oil company Aker BP had a contrarian idea.

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