Norway's Oil Minister Said to Quit

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Norway's Oil Minister Tord Lien will resign on Tuesday and be replaced in the cabinet by Terje Soeviknes, according to Norwegian news agency NTB. The 41-year-old Lien has been in the post for just over three years, overseeing the oil and gas sector in the biggest producer in Europe outside Russia, which declined to participate in the recent Opec/non-Opec talks on supply curbs (IOD Dec.6'16).