Five years ago, explorers at a Norwegian oil company called Aker BP had a contrarian idea. They believed there might be a lot of oil lurking in an offshore natural gas field that was thought to be played out, and they persuaded Aker BP to let them go after this “missing” oil. The Aker BP explorers were going against conventional wisdom when they decided to look for oil in a field that had been abandoned. Aker BP plans to tie the Omega Alfa finds into Yggdrasil, the largest oil project under development in Norway with a $17 billion price tag. The find also raises questions about market perceptions of the Norwegian oil industry.