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In today’s session of the Council of State, the King has honourably discharged Minister of Petroleum and Energy Terje Riis-Johansen from his post as of today at 2.15 pm. From the same time Mr. Ola Borten Moe (34), Member of Parliament, Trondheim, has been appointed new Minister of Petroleum and Energy.

Borten Moe was a member of the Trondheim city council for three four-year terms, from 1995 to 2007. He was elected MP of the Norwegian Parliament from Sør-Trøndelag in 2005, after serving as deputy MP from 2001 to 2005. From 2005 to 2007 Borten Moe was a Member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment, and from 2007 to 2009 Chairman of the Standing Committee on Business and Industry.