P. M. BRIEFING : Norway Shuts Oil Sites in Strike
<i> From Times Wire Services</i>
OSLO —
Norway’s state-owned Statoil oil company today shut down production on four of its seven platforms in the North Sea because of wildcat strikes that so far have cost the country about $95 million.
Statoil chief Harald Norvik used loudspeakers aboard the offshore platforms today to announce his company’s intention to fight the strikers, but the workers apparently paid little attention to his speech.
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