Fredrik Hagemann (4 March 1929 – 12 June 2019)– En uredd og faglig sterk oljepioner er død
was a

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and bureaucrat He was born in

Andenes is the administrative centre of Andøy Municipality which is located in the Vesterålen district of Nordland county, Norway. The village of Andenes is the northernmost settlement of the island of Andøya (and in Nordland county). To the east ...

as the son of literary historian and literary critic Sonja Hagemann. He graduated with the

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degree, and worked in the

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from 1957 to 1966. responsible for petroleum issues (''seksjonssjef'') in the

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from 1966 to 1972 and then Director of the

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from 1972 to 1997. His successor

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had been appointed already in 1990, but waited several years to take the post; during this period Hagemann was the acting Petroleum Director.

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