Oslo — Norway expects Royal Dutch Shell to go forward with a shelved project to boost recovery of natural gas at the Ormen Lange field and warned it would start pushing the company for progress from 2017. "A clear message to Shell is that we expect that it seizes the opportunities that exist at Ormen Lange and comes to a decision to take this forward," Bente Nyland, head of the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, said in an interview in Oslo on Wednesday. "There are a lot of resources at Ormen and we have to get them out." Norway wants a decision on an offshore compression project, which was postponed in 2014 as one of the first victims of an industrywide drive to cut spending and costs. It will start to be "urgent" to proceed with the project during 2017 and 2018, Nyland said.
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