A sale of Solstad Offshore shares by Rem Offshore chairman Age Remoy has failed to interest investors.

Rem said that only 2,761 of 1.28m shares - 0.2% - offered by Remoy’s Forsa company had been bought by Wednesday’s deadline.

The stock was on sale to minority Rem shareholders as a response to a small fine from the Oslo Stock Exchange, which said other investors had suffered unequal treatment in the imminent merger of Rem with Solstad.

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