Norway halts strike that threatened gas supplies to Britain

The Norwegian government has stepped in to end a strike that had threatened supplies of gas to Britain.

The labour dispute had shut down oilfields and gasfields and was expected to cut Norway’s gas supplies by almost 60% by the weekend.

Gassco, Oslo’s state-owned pipeline operator, had even warned that “in a worst-case scenario, deliveries to the UK could stop totally”.

Workers demanded a pay increase to handle rising inflation, which has been triggered in part by a jump in oil and gas…