Once again an ill-informed post. Sigh. Norway has a VAT tax in excess of 25% (think HST). Norway has extremely high income taxes. Norway allows exploration companies to write off 79% of development costs right off of the bat. Norway does not send great chunks of money each and every year to Sweden, Finland, and Denmark. Norway does not allow a looney-tune environmental movement and greedy provincial neighbours to block access to world markets. Norway has huge deposits that makes development somewhat easier than the marginal fields Alberta keeps going.