Ekofisk: North Sea oil discovered
1969 · Event
Phillips strikes oil in the Norwegian North Sea just as the search was being abandoned; the fund built on it makes Norway the world's richest per-capita democracy.
On these timelines: Scandinavia, the Nordic World & the Viking Age, Master, Economic History
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