Oslo

It’s 8.45 on a Tuesday morning in April and Christian Andersen is already heading for his third meeting of the day. It would be a tough start to any working week, but when you have six days to raise $100m, it’s worth getting an early start.

Andersen, chief executive of Avance Gas, and his finance chief, Peder Simonsen, are visiting their three advisers before embarking on a roadshow that will take them across two continents and to five cities in a little over a week.