Thestate-owned oil company responded on Friday to local media reports that cited internaldocuments as saying the owners of the facility were examining the legal implicationsfor Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM) in the event of a closure of the testcentre on Norway’s west coast by 2017.
Statoil andcarbon capture agency Gassnova are the dominant owners with respective stakesof 20% and 75.12% in the prestige project, which is reported to be facing annualrunning costs of Nkr300 million ($48.8
