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Aldous and Avaldsnes: It's now Johan Sverdrup
 Norway's biggest offshore oil discovery in the last 20 years has been given a new name by the government.
Norway's Minister of Petroleum and Energy Ola Borten Moe has decided that the 3 billion barrel Aldous and Avaldsnes discovery should be renamed Johan Sverdrup – the historical Norwegian figure who introduced the parliamentary system to the country in the nineteenth century.
“The Norwegian petroleum adventure is the property of all Norwegians,” the energy minister declared, speaking at a business and industry conference. “That is why it is important that the names of large, independent developments have a signal effect beyond the continental shelf. The choice of name reflects the importance of the project and the operations now being conducted,” the Minister has declared.
Sverdrup was Norwegian Prime Minister between 1884 and 1889 and also served as chief of the Ministry of the Nay and Chief of the Ministry of Auditing, and Chief of the Ministry of Defence.
Born in 1816 in Sem in Vestold in Norway, he was son of a tenant farmer and died in Kristiania in Oslo in February 1892 aged 75.
Sverdrup trained as a lawyer and after several years practice was elected a member of the Storting (parliament) for Larvik with support from trade, handicraft and workers' unions. He backed universal suffrage, and in the 1860s emerged as a leading opposition figure againt the government of Christian Selmer. He led Norway's Liberal Government from June 1884.
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