Modern Oslo · event 6 of 12

1969

Ekofisk. On 23 December, Phillips Petroleum confirms a major oil find in the Norwegian North Sea. It is among the largest offshore discoveries ever made, and it arrives in a country poor enough to have been sending emigrants to America within living memory.

The Modern Oslo era

  1. 1925
  2. 1940
  3. 1945
  4. 1950
  5. 1952
  6. 1969
  7. 1972
  8. 1990
  9. 2008
  10. 2011
  11. 2021
  12. 2022

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