Sponsorship
Statoil sponsors talents in art, education and sports through the program Morgendagens helter (Tomorrow's heroes).
Two musical prizes are included in the program. As of 2013, the grant for both awards is of 1 million Nkr (about USD 166 000). The Statoil classical music award has been awared since 1999. The Statoil stipend to a Norwegian pop/rock artist or group has been awared since 2008 during the by:Larm festival and is meant to stimulate an international career.
The program also includes an art prize, Statoils kunstpris, that has been awarded every second year since 2007 to a talented artist in Norway. The grant is 500,000 Nkr (about US 83 000) which makes it Norway's largest prize of its kind.
Sponsorship for sports included support for football and skiing. Sponsorship for education focuses on natural sciences and included a yearly competition for high school students in Norway where Statoils realfagspris is awarded.
Statoil was an official sponsor of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 that was held in Oslo.
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