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(1/31/2012) Petrobras FDPSO springs a leak off Brazil
(1/31/2012) Fatal accident at Texon's Texas wellsite
(1/30/2012) Oil leak shuts down UK Foinaven Field
(1/26/2012) Kirkpatrick well blows in Oklahoma, 4 injured
(1/25/2012) CNOOC & ConocoPhillips to pay oil spill claims
(1/24/2012) Chevron rig sinks off Nigeria, plans relief well
(1/24/2012) Landslide strikes Papua New Guinea LNG Project
(1/20/2012) Explosion & fire injures 3 on South Texas High Roller field
(1/18/2012) Fire on Pemex offshore platform forces full evacuation
(1/17/2012) Two still missing after offshore Nigeria rig fire (update)
(1/17/2012) Tanker hits Petro Anzoategui heavy oil platform
(1/17/2012) USGS advisor attributes earthquakes to wastewater injection
(1/17/2012) Hercules liftboat in Nigeria fire likely total loss
(1/16/2012) Blowout & fire on Chevron rig off Nigeria
(1/13/2012) Copter makes emergency landing on Asgard B platform
(1/13/2012) PDVSA oilworker killed in Maracaibo boat rig collision
(1/10/2012) Dangerous near-miss in Bredford Dolphin accident
(1/8/2012) Probe finds safety violations in sinking of Kolskaya jackup
(1/7/2012) Chesapeake rig blows in Oklahoma
(12/13/2011) Brazil sues Chevron & Transocean for $11 billion
(12/13/2011) Statoil contracts 1st integrated environmental monitoring system
(12/13/2011) FPSO Petrojarl Banff adrift in heavy North Sea storm
(12/5/2011) Statoil safety concerns shut in Heimdal gasfield
(12/2/2011) PSA concludes 15-year Vietnam oil & gas industry safety program
(12/1/2011) Brazil's ANP orders shut-in of Chevron well
(11/30/2011) BP Norge must improve monitoring & response to oil spills
(11/28/2011) Nabors Drilling cited for safety violations
(11/27/2011) Chevron temporarily banned from drilling off Brazil
(11/25/2011) Supply ship damages semi GSF Grand Banks off Newfoundland
(11/22/2011) Chevron fined $27.7 million for causing Brazilian oil spill (update)
(11/21/2011) Chevron acknowledges responsibility for Brazil oil leak (update)
(11/20/2011) Iraq's Rumaila Field development hampered by landmines
(11/20/2011) Ringo fined for rigworker death in West Texas
(11/15/2011) Chevron plugs Frade Field oil leak off Brazil
(11/15/2011) Oil & gas industry water survival training now at NASA
(11/11/2011) China says ConocoPhillips negligence caused Bohai spills
(11/10/2011) Oil spill off Brazil near Chevron's Frade Field
(11/10/2011) Enforcement of offshore SEMS set to start
(11/9/2011) Lightning strikes Imperial's Barnett Shale water disposal facility
(11/8/2011) Statoil forced to shutdown Gullfaks B due to gas leak
(11/8/2011) Fouled water supply triggers North Sea platform evacuation
(11/7/2011) US Justice & EPA investigating W&T Offshore platforms
(11/3/2011) Gaswell leak shuts down Cutter Oil well
(11/1/2011) Diver death on Premier-operated Balmoral semi
(10/30/2011) Another oilfield explosion onshore Iran
(10/30/2011) Farmers blockade Santos drilling in New South Wales
(10/28/2011) Explosion at Iran's Bibi Hakimeh Field kills 1 & injures 3 others
(10/28/2011) Weeklong Oklahoma well fire capping expected
(10/27/2011) Saudi Aramco plugs leak on Safaniya Field
(10/23/2011) ExxonMobil resumes Mobile Bay gas production
(10/20/2011) Persian Gulf service vessel accident leaves 12 missing
(10/20/2011) Worker falls to death on Scarabeo 8 newbuild
(10/19/2011) Rockhopper evacuates Ocean Guardian off Falklands
(10/17/2011) Anadarko paying BP $4 billion to settle Deepwater Horizon claims
(10/16/2011) CNOOC cleaning up minor Bohai Bay field oil leak
(10/14/2011) BP, Transocean & Halliburton cited for Deepwater Horizon disaster
(10/12/2011) Deepwater Horizon not source of oil leak
(10/11/2011) Kazakh oil pumping station explosion kills eight
(10/6/2011) Norway's PSA warns of barrier failure in 74 abandoned wells
(10/6/2011) Contractor missing from North Sea Visund platform
(10/3/2011) Hercules liftboat hit by waterspouts & capsizes
(9/29/2011) Fire hits Eikfisk newbuild accommodation rig
(9/28/2011) Transocean notified of possible release from Deepwater Horizon
(9/26/2011) White paper calls for science input into Arctic development
(9/23/2011) Two injured in Texas Karnes County blowout
(9/23/2011) BOEMRE surprise US Gulf spill drill tests Petrobras
(9/23/2011) Fire sweeps Trada FSO Lentera Bangsa off Indonesia
(9/21/2011) MWCC adds Eagle Texas to containment system
(9/20/2011) US EPA grants permits to Shell for Arctic drilling
(9/20/2011) Court rules against Chevron in Ecuador oil pollution case
(9/20/2011) One dead, 9 injured, 3 missing in Iraq Rumaila gas facility fire
(9/20/2011) Watonga well fire in Oklahoma still burning
(9/16/2011) El Paso denied drilling permit off Brazil
(9/15/2011) Search called off for lost liftboat worker in Campeche Bay (update)
(9/15/2011) 1 dead, 3 injured in North Dakota well blowout
(9/14/2011) Chevron confirms US Gulf oil leak secured
(9/14/2011) JIT final report on Macondo deepwater disaster released (update)
(9/13/2011) Offshore Europe wells only with emergency plan and funds
(9/13/2011) BOEMRE lays out new safety rule for operators
(9/13/2011) Statoil stamps out fire on North Sea platform
(9/12/2011) Contractor killed at XTO gas well site in south Texas
(9/12/2011) CNOOC okays ConocoPhillips plan for leaking Bohai well (update)
(9/12/2011) Seven liftboat workers adrift in Bay of Campeche rescued (update)
(9/11/2011) Fraccing protest on Murphy Oil's Alberta First Nation project
(9/11/2011) BLM to rewrite enviro review guidelines
(9/9/2011) Pemex locates sunken liftboat, no sign of survivors (update)
(9/9/2011) Search underway for disabled liftboat workers in Bay of Campeche
(9/8/2011) Osprag launches new subsea well capping device
(9/8/2011) Santos links with Queensland farm to launch irrigation project
(9/6/2011) ConocoPhillips ordered to fully shutdown Penglai field (update)
(9/1/2011) Shell still pushing for permit to explore South Africa's Karoo
(8/30/2011) Samson contractor employees killed in Wyoming explosion
(8/29/2011) Petrobras charters newbuild FSRU from Excelerate
(8/26/2011) ConocoPhillips finds more oil seeps on Penglai 19-3 Field (update)
(8/26/2011) Power outage shuts down White Rose Field off Eastern Canada
(8/26/2011) Keystone XL pipeline to have no significant enviro impact
(8/25/2011) BP Alaska North Slope security guard kills polar bear
(8/25/2011) Imperial drilling Barnett Shale frac water disposal well
(8/22/2011) US Gulf enviro activist flyover spots potential oil leaks
(8/21/2011) Three die & 1 missing in Petrobras helicopter crash
(8/19/2011) ConocoPhillips resumes partial ops at leaking China field (update)
(8/19/2011) Shell shuts off UK Gannet Field flowline valve (update)
(8/17/2011) Rigworker killed in US Gulf High Island platform accident
(8/16/2011) Shell detects 2nd Gannet Alpha North Sea leak point (update)
(8/15/2011) Greenland reveals Cairn spill plan
(8/15/2011) UK DECC declares oil leak at Shell Gannet platform substantial
(8/14/2011) North Sea seafloor well-capping exercise passes test
(8/12/2011) Subsea flowline at Shell's Gannet Field leaking
(8/12/2011) ConocoPhillips ups amount of oil & drilling mud spill
(8/9/2011) Russian ecologists say Gazprom not ready to drill Pechora Sea
(8/7/2011) BLM denies protest, opens Wyoming elk habitat to gas drilling
(8/5/2011) More oil leaks in Lake Maracaibo affecting blue crabs
(8/1/2011) Bolivia's YPFB plugs & abandons non-producer
(7/31/2011) ConocoPhillips' Bohai Bay platforms in China still leaking (update)
(7/31/2011) Dejour to drill in & around Colorado's Garfield Creek
(7/28/2011) Valhall platform fire caused little damage
(7/27/2011) US EPA issues draft Arctic air quality permits
(7/25/2011) North Dakota gaswell blowout severely injures 3 workers
(7/22/2011) Two Hornbeck vessels join US Gulf spill response program
(7/20/2011) BP reveals another pipeline leak at Alaska's Prudhoe Bay
(7/17/2011) BP sets new standards for its US Gulf drilling operations
(7/14/2011) Fire halts operations on BP's North Sea Valhall platform
(7/12/2011) Sakhalin seismic shoots threaten endangered gray whales
(7/11/2011) Second minor oil leak in China's Bohai Bay
(7/10/2011) Copter crash offshore Myanmar kills 3, 8 rescued
(7/10/2011) Bohai Bay oil spill now under control
(7/10/2011) Oil spill at Denbury well in McKenzie County, North Dakota
(7/10/2011) Injuries & fatality at PNG LNG project in Papua New Guinea
(7/8/2011) Shell to drill near Ningaloo Reef World Heritage site
(7/7/2011) Damaged Transocean Marianas out a week or more (update)
(7/6/2011) Transocean Marianas rig taking on water, evacuated off Ghana
(7/5/2011) ExxonMobil Montana oil spill now extends 15 miles (update)
(7/4/2011) Norway's PSA finds fault with Seadrill's West Elara newbuild
(7/3/2011) ExxonMobil pipeline spills oil into Montana's Yellowstone River
(6/29/2011) Helix Well Containment Group extends water depth capabilities
(6/27/2011) Leak & fire hit Pengrowth's Judy Creek Field in Alberta
(6/24/2011) Canada & Alberta Province funding Shell CO2 Project
(6/23/2011) Chevron worker killed in freak California field accident
(6/22/2011) Marathon agrees to pay for spill near Parachute, Colorado
(6/22/2011) Transocean internal investigation cites BP risks at Macondo (update)
(6/20/2011) Weatherford & BP settle claims from Deepwater Horizon disaster (update)
(6/19/2011) Boots & Coots called in to cap ONGC Tripura blowout (update)
(6/17/2011) Federal suit filed against Greka for California oil spills
(6/17/2011) Statoil's Krafla discovery well oil leak shut-in
(6/16/2011) ONGC well in India's West Tripura suffers blowout
(6/16/2011) Oilworker dies after fall from Shell's Brent Charlie platform
(6/15/2011) Capping stack can now be used in 10,000 ft water
(6/7/2011) E.On Ruhrgas HSE management in Breiflabb well questioned
(6/3/2011) Rowan Stavanger rapped for regulation violations
(5/31/2011) Earthquake suspends Cuadrilla drilling on UK coast
(5/30/2011) Noble told not to drill Leviathan off Israel
(5/29/2011) Greenpeace takes roost on Cairn's Leiv Eiriksson off Greenland
(5/29/2011) 27,580 bbl of Shell oil spilt in Nigeria in 2010
(5/29/2011) Petrobras' P-65 platform shutdown for safety
(5/26/2011) Polar bear protest at Cairn's Edinburgh head office
(5/25/2011) BOEMRE investigation finds heater-treater cause of Vermilion fire
(5/23/2011) Norske Shell reprimanded for serious North Sea incident
(5/20/2011) BP settles Deepwater Horizon claims with MOEX/Mitsui
(5/16/2011) Gullfaks A incident could have been fatal
(5/15/2011) Chesapeake resuming fraccing in Pennsylvania's Marcellus
(5/15/2011) Statoil releases 1st oil sands enviro report
(5/15/2011) Chain fracture caused Petrobras FPSO riser failure
(5/3/2011) BP hit with $85 million in fines & costs for Alaska oil spill
(5/3/2011) Nexen & Statoil join US Gulf spill response collective
(5/1/2011) Statoil institutes safety measures in response to Gullfaks B gas leak
(4/27/2011) Third Statoil platform gas leak shuts in field
(4/25/2011) Chesapeake kills Pennsylvania Marcellus blowout
(4/22/2011) High winds end Greenpeace occupation of Greenland-bound semi
(4/22/2011) BP commits to early US Gulf restoration projects
(4/22/2011) Norske Shell ordered to review management of chemical health risk
(4/21/2011) Transocean lodges its own suit against BP & others
(4/21/2011) Saudi drillship badly damaged in Gulf of Venezuela
(4/21/2011) Fire on Maersk accommodation platform off Qatar extinguished
(4/21/2011) BP suing Transocean, Halliburton, Cameron over Macondo disaster
(4/21/2011) Chesapeake Marcellus well blowout still out of control
(4/19/2011) Fatal fall on shut-in Hilcorp US Gulf platform
(4/13/2011) Pemex evacuates sinking Jupiter semi accommodation platform
(4/10/2011) Statoil investigating gas leak on Visund Field
(4/10/2011) Greenpeace flotilla disrupts Petrobras seismic shoot
(4/9/2011) Visund platform in Norwegian North Sea evacuated
(4/8/2011) Coast Guard to take action against ASOP for oil spill
(4/6/2011) Shell receives PSA order due to Draugen well incident
(4/4/2011) US Energy Dept launches review of hydraulic fracturing
(4/3/2011) Firefighters contain Choice Exploration Texas gaswell fire
(4/1/2011) Rig spills drilling mud offshore Newfoundland
(4/1/2011) One worker dead another injured in Louisiana blowout
(3/30/2011) Helix Well Containment Group targets control at 10,000 ft
(3/27/2011) Flotilla to protest Petrobras drilling off New Zealand
(3/27/2011) No shale gas drilling in France until enviro studies done
(3/23/2011) Chesapeake ordered to halt wellsite work in Pennsylvania
(3/23/2011) BOEMRE releases DNV final report on Deepwater Horizon disaster
(3/18/2011) Soco exploration of DRC's Block V forestalled
(3/14/2011) Large Arctic oil spill study to hold up Chukchi Sea operations
(3/13/2011) Produced water an enviro challenge for Arctic operators
(3/8/2011) Husky gaswell blowout in Central Alberta injures 12
(3/7/2011) Two rescued after Arena platform in US Gulf burns
(3/6/2011) Daylight oilwell near Lodgepole, Alberta burns
(3/3/2011) Earthquakes may shut down Arkansas wells
(3/2/2011) Norway's PSA investigating Monday's accident on Gullfaks
(3/2/2011) Maersk halts Danish field output due to oil leak
(2/25/2011) TNK-BP Rosneft Kara Sea project in Arktika National Park
(2/24/2011) Roc's Cliff Head Field shutdown due to chloride in crude
(2/24/2011) Fire engulfs Chesapeake Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale site
(2/23/2011) Helmerich & Payne oilfield worker killed in West Texas accident
(2/17/2011) HIS contract employee falls to death from US Gulf platform
(2/17/2011) Initial well containment response system launched
(2/16/2011) Gullfaks B gas leak had low risk of ignition - Statoil (update)
(2/15/2011) Chevron ordered to pay $8.6 billion for enviro damages
(2/14/2011) Toreador & Hess agree to Paris Basin tight rock oil program
(2/13/2011) US preparing enviro statement for 2012-17 Gulf lease sales
(2/11/2011) Statoil Canada charged with Water Act infractions
(2/10/2011) BOP incident on Deepsea Atlantic offshore Norway
(2/8/2011) BOEMRE to review enviro impact of US Gulf leases
(2/6/2011) 74 crewmen evacuated from Maersk's Gryphon Alpha FPSO
(2/4/2011) Occidental targeted for another fine for Colorado pit leak
(2/3/2011) BP joins US Gulf Marine Well Containment JV
(2/2/2011) BP cited for lack of UK North Sea safety risk assessments
(2/1/2011) Statoil shuts-in 50 Gullfaks wells as safety precaution
(1/30/2011) Fire on Petrobras platform shuts down production
(1/28/2011) Fluid release shuts down Talisman shale gaswell fraccing
(1/25/2011) Maersk acquires license for zero-emissions Oxy-Fuel license
(1/23/2011) Quebec considering disallowing shale gas operations
(1/23/2011) Fatal accident at Claxton takes 4 lives
(1/21/2011) Brent Field shutdown to last several weeks (update)
(1/21/2011) ONGC plugs leak & restarts Mumbai High production
(1/20/2011) Helix Fast Response System contracted for US Gulf
(1/20/2011) Songa Mercur accident drops BOP & riser to seafloor
(1/18/2011) Apache platform springs a gas leak in US Gulf
(1/18/2011) Accident shuts down UK North Sea Brent Field
(1/18/2011) GTI & GFZ link to launch unconventional gas sustainable practices
(1/17/2011) Statoil's Snorre A springs another gas leak
(1/12/2011) Pemex gets orders on deepwater drilling safety measures
(1/11/2011) Gas leak suspends output from Statoil's Snorre A platform
(1/10/2011) BP's Prudhoe pipeline shutdown due to another leak
(1/9/2011) Explosion shuts down Canada's Horizon Oil Sands
(1/9/2011) Commission concludes US Gulf disaster caused by BP & contractors (update)
(12/15/2010) Statoil shuts down Kristin & Tyrihans Fields
(12/15/2010) BP subject of US Justice Department lawsuit for oil spill (update)
(12/14/2010) Canadian operators link for tailings R&D
(12/13/2010) HARC to test low impact, enviro-friendly drilling systems
(12/13/2010) Elk Hills, California well explodes into flames - still burning
(12/10/2010) Helix talking retainer for Deepwater Containment System
(12/8/2010) Halliburton to comply with EPA frac fluid subpoena
(12/8/2010) Range denies responsibility for Texas water contamination
(12/6/2010) Schlumberger fined for putting rigworkers at radiation risk
(12/6/2010) Norway's PSA investigating Gullfaks B leak
(12/1/2010) Three injured in workover rig fire in Louisiana's Bayou Perot
(11/30/2010) Beach donates 22,000 mosquito nets in Tanzania malaria fight
(11/28/2010) Woodside gas hub on Western Australia's Kimberley coast protested
(11/28/2010) Enviro groups protest next Montana & North Dakota lease sale
(11/26/2010) Montara Commission calls for PTTEP license review
(11/26/2010) 187,000 sq miles of polar bear habitat off limits to drilling
(11/26/2010) H2S buildup on SeaRose FPSO triggers evacuation
(11/23/2010) Winter snow & wind thwart Whiting efforts to plug leaking well (update)
(11/22/2010) Small oil spill on New Zealand's Maari Field off Taranaki coast
(11/22/2010) Whiting loses control of Bakken well in North Dakota
(11/19/2010) Only chance averted Gullfaks C blowout and/or explosion
(11/18/2010) Gas leak hits Chevron's North Sea Alba platform
(11/14/2010) PTTEP again denies Indonesia's Montara oil pollution claim
(11/11/2010) BP, Transocean & Halliburton mistakes led to US Gulf disaster (update)
(11/7/2010) ExxonMobil links with Africare to fight malaria
(11/5/2010) 15 Eni employees & 2 contractors killed in Pakistan plane crash
(11/5/2010) Statoil passes details of Gullfaks C well incident to PSA
(11/5/2010) US BOEMRE doing post-Deepwater Horizon enviro statement
(10/29/2010) Deepwater Horizon oil spill commission points to faulty cement (update)
(10/26/2010) Pemex-Statoil gas flaring project wins UN approval
(10/25/2010) Oilfield pipeline explosion kills at least 12 in Myanmar
(10/22/2010) Barents Sea oil spill drill concluded, exploration drilling next
(10/21/2010) 1 killed, 12 injured in explosion at Novatek gasfield
(10/17/2010) Six Pemex employees & 2 pilots die in copter crash
(10/12/2010) AGG launches oil industry Iraq-to-Kuwait medevac service
(10/11/2010) Seneca fined for Marcellus Shale multiple enviro violations
(10/7/2010) Presidential commission critical of White House in US Gulf disaster (update)
(10/6/2010) No advanced warning of blowout on Deepwater Horizon (update)
(10/4/2010) Shell's Goldeneye gasfield to be redeveloped for CCS
(10/1/2010) BP puts up $20 billion in US Gulf assets as spill collateral (update)
(9/30/2010) US BOEM contracts mid-Atlantic deepwater study
(9/27/2010) Halliburton blasts BP's US Gulf Macondo blowout report (update)
(9/24/2010) Suncor completes surface reclamation of first tailings pond
(9/22/2010) Kosmos refuses to pay fine for oil spill off Ghana
(9/22/2010) Greenpeace occupies Stena Carron drillship
(9/21/2010) Boots & Coots fighting West Virginia well fire
(9/21/2010) Chesapeake to take 60 days to inspect Pennsylvania gaswells
(9/20/2010) BP kills US Gulf Macondo blown-out well (update)
(9/17/2010) BP's Development Driller III relief well intersects Macondo annulus (update)
(9/16/2010) BP cited for improper safety training at North Sea operations
(9/14/2010) US Justice Dept to file Deepwater Horizon disaster civil suit
(9/13/2010) BP resumes drilling US Gulf Macondo relief well (update)
(9/13/2010) US Government to test Halliburton's cementing of Macondo well (update)
(9/13/2010) Fire sends 129 crewmen from North Sea platform to lifeboats
(9/10/2010) Transocean accuses BP of "fatally flawed" well design (update)
(9/9/2010) Fire strikes 2nd Mariner platform in US Gulf
(9/9/2010) Final kill of BP's blown out Macondo well could take a month (update)
(9/8/2010) BP releases its take on the causes of the Macondo disaster (update)
(9/8/2010) PSA issues warning to operators on semi stability & ballasting
(9/8/2010) Enap stamps out platform fire in Strait of Magellan
(9/8/2010) Sinopec crewmen missing from typhoon-struck Bohai Bay platform
(9/8/2010) FSO explosion off Indonesia causes fire & oil spill
(9/7/2010) BP Norge issued order for hazardous noise
(9/7/2010) Union calls for maintenance shutdown of Petrobras FPSO
(9/6/2010) US Gulf blown out Macondo well spill threat ended (update)
(9/3/2010) BP removes capping stack from Deepwater Horizon BOP (update)
(9/2/2010) Denbury North Dakota well leaking 100 bbl/hr
(9/2/2010) Explosion & fire on Mariner platform off Louisiana
(9/2/2010) Greenpeace occupation of Cairn rig off Greenland ends (update)
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