Oslo — The Omicron variant of the coronavirus will have a smaller impact on energy markets than seen from previous COVID-19 outbreaks, Equinor Chief Executive Anders Opedal said on Tuesday.
“I think (vaccines) will enable a society to be more open and keeping the (energy) demand up,” Opedal told Reuters on the sidelines of a conference.
“So I think we will see less impact (from Omicron) than we have seen before, but it might slow down the growth a little bit,” he added.
Reporting by Nora Buli and Nerijus Adomaitis, editing by Terje Solsvik and Gwladys Fouche
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