Barnett, one of the islanders who gladly sold land for inflated prices. »We couldn't see much of a future for small farms like mine so we didn't mind that Flotta became known as Treasure Island,« he told me [...] They have funded many economic and social projects and continue to do so. A new cheese factory is about to open and work will soon begin on a modern new library in the Orkney capital, Kirkwall. Funding for [...] symbol of the impact oil has had on the Orkney Islands. A huge orange flame has blazed above the Flotta Oil terminal for almost a quarter of a century now. It can be seen on clear nights from the Scottish

Islands as a future oil province, even if we do not at this moment of time know whether the find is commercial. Challenging tasks lie ahead for all license holders on the Faroe Shelf ...? What the Marjun find [...] to a much greater depth than was originally planned. With one clear discovery notched up out of three exploration wells drilled, the success rate achieved in the first |Faroes campaign is smack on the global [...] Round announced in August 2000. However, while we know that one of the three wells drilled this year was successful, the amount of public domain information about the early drilling results achieved by Amerada