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Oilfield worker killed in Pennsylvania drilling accident (6/18/2009) Floats failed in fatal copter crash off Canada (6/15/2009) Eni provides humanitarian aid to DR Congo (6/12/2009) No injuries in helicopter ditching in US Gulf (6/12/2009) PSA investigating last week's Ekofisk vessel collision (6/8/2009) Vessel strikes Ekofisk platform, shuts it down (6/8/2009) PSA investigating injury accident on Stena Don (6/7/2009) Personal locator beacons to again be used for offshore flights (6/3/2009) Four emergency preparedness faults found on Maersk Gallant (6/2/2009) Four injured in Syncrude explosion in Alberta (6/1/2009) Woodside's Scott Reef research wins APPEA enviro award (6/1/2009) Lawsuit claims 116 deaths due to Pemex violation of labor laws (6/1/2009) Ecuador says not drilling Yasuni to cost $5.2 billion (5/28/2009) Two crewmen injured in US Gulf explosion (5/26/2009) Coast Guard evacuates crewman from rig in US Gulf (5/25/2009) Extraordinary creature sighted beneath Shell's Perdido platform (5/24/2009) Alberta halts drilling of wells with high hydrogen sulfide (5/21/2009) Midair emergency forces CHC crew copter back to base (5/21/2009) Five Chesapeake Energy workers exposed to contaminant (5/15/2009) Operator killed in Alberta Pembina Field accident (5/13/2009) ConocoPhillips under fire for Peruvian Amazon operations (5/12/2009) Noble jackup severely damaged offshore Qatar (5/10/2009) Roustabout crushed between containers on Troll C (5/10/2009) Chesapeake gaswell blowout still out of control (5/7/2009) Anadarko to pay penalty for Wyoming oil spills (5/7/2009) Scaffolder falls to death on Oseberg B platform (5/5/2009) PSA calls for better offshore prevention & fireproofing (5/4/2009) Shell swapping out lifeboats from Brutus to Perdido (5/4/2009) Tarim Oilfield earns $51.1 million recycling gas (4/30/2009) Western Australia EPA gives blessing to Gorgon Project (4/29/2009) Body found on seafloor of Beryl Alpha production operator (update) (4/28/2009) Search & rescue for Beryl Alpha worker ongoing (4/28/2009) OLF calls on the companies to update pandemic plans (4/27/2009) Petrobras boosts flaring to 286 million cf/d offshore Brazil (4/27/2009) Fire erupts at ONGC's Indian west coast gasfield complex (4/24/2009) Sakhalin Energy gives up seismic for gray whales (4/22/2009) CNR charged with culpability in Horizon Oil Sands deaths (update) (4/21/2009) NOPSA halts Woodside startup of Ngujima-Yin FPSO (4/20/2009) Aker Solutions engineer dies in drillship accident (4/20/2009) Court halts Arctic Ocean & Bristol Bay lease sales (4/17/2009) Accident in Pioneer rig move in Wyoming kills worker (4/14/2009) Wood Group joins BP in giving rig workers flight option (4/14/2009) Fire on Maersk's FPSO off Western Australia halts production (4/13/2009) Unions call for grounding of Super Puma helicopters (update) (4/8/2009) Yme platform technical safety questioned (4/6/2009) Aztec rig worker injured in New Mexico rig move (4/6/2009) Technip dive support crewman killed in UK North Sea (4/2/2009) Eight still missing from yesterday's copter crash, all feared dead (update) (4/1/2009) Bond copter with 14 aboard crashes in UK North Sea (4/1/2009) StatoilHydro receiving order for regulatory violations (update) (3/31/2009) Aker Spitsbergen cited for emergency preparedness faults (3/29/2009) Precision Drilling employee killed on Encana wellsite (3/26/2009) Colorado passing revised drilling regulations (3/25/2009) New Zealand's Maoris block Greymouth's Kowhai drilling (3/24/2009) Ghana fishermen angry Jubilee Field made off limits (3/24/2009) Sunken supply boat in Cook Inlet to stay where it is (3/23/2009) Fire strikes Masila oilfield in southern Yemen (3/23/2009) Devon & Suncor oilfield workers injured in Alberta (3/20/2009) Search for missing WesternGeco crewman suspended (3/19/2009) Two injured in New York gaswell drilling operation (3/16/2009) Searchers find helicopter crashed off Newfoundland (update) (3/13/2009) All copter flights off Newfoundland grounded (update) (3/12/2009) Monolit cutting emissions by collecting waste gas (3/12/2009) Oilworker found dead on rig in North Dakota (3/12/2009) Crew change helicopter with 18 aboard crashes off Newfoundland (3/9/2009) Court vacates order preventing Shell Beaufort Sea drilling (3/8/2009) BP pigging of Alyeska Pipeline risked explosion (3/6/2009) Norway's PSA concludes investigation into Troll A accident (3/5/2009) StatoilHydro's Utsira carbon sequestration project secure (3/4/2009) PSA investigating serious accident aboard Deepsea Bergen (3/4/2009) Oil leak & fire shuts down a fifth of Russia's oil exports (3/2/2009) Oil industry has highest fatality rate of all US industries (3/2/2009) Caspian Pipeline oil flow resumed after repair (update) (2/27/2009) Leak shuts down Kazakh section of Caspian Pipeline (2/27/2009) Peru high court halts operations in Andes block (2/27/2009) Major oil spill in Ecuadorian Amazon's Santa Rosa River (2/20/2009) Gas leak off India's west coast plunges production (2/19/2009) ExxonMobil platform leaking oil off California (2/19/2009) BP shuts down Prudhoe Bay flowline after spill (2/19/2009) MMS awards 3-year grant to assess Chukchi Sea seabed (2/18/2009) All rescued from downed North Sea helicopter (2/18/2009) Obama critical of Canada's oil sands carbon footprint (2/17/2009) Study underway on risk related to subsea gas discharges (2/16/2009) Persian Gulf platform gas leak still out of control (update) (2/12/2009) Seismic shoot in India's Desert National Park halted (2/11/2009) Safe Lancia lists precariously offshore Mexico (2/10/2009) Norway's PSA points to need for experience transfer (2/9/2009) Alberta files charges against Syncrude for 500 duck deaths (update) (2/8/2009) Offshore crane users warned to avoid blind zones (2/6/2009) Salazar does it again: 8 leases excised from Wyoming auction (2/5/2009) Suncor being investigated for discharge into Athabasca River (2/5/2009) US Interior Sec cancels lease sales near Utah parks (2/4/2009) Iran's Persian Gulf Abuzar platform on fire (2/3/2009) Gas leak on UAE's Shah Field kills 3, injures another (2/2/2009) Shell suspends Sikorsky copter flights in US Gulf (2/2/2009) Death aboard Apache-operated FSO Karratha Spirit (1/26/2009) Total Safety completes safety refurbishment of Hercules jackups (1/25/2009) New Louisiana rules for drilling near major highways & waterways (1/19/2009) BLM leases of Utah lands halted by court order (1/16/2009) Supply vessel Monarch sinks in Alaska's Cook Inlet (1/15/2009) Norway calls for radioactivity to be included in zero discharge goal (1/14/2009) Enviro group keeps NM's Santa Fe Forest off limits (1/13/2009) Spill clean-up near complete at Alaska's Kuparuk Field (1/9/2009) Norway's PSA investigating Kristin & Veslefrikk lifeboat incidents (1/8/2009) 1 dead & 2 injured in Petrobras FPSO accident (1/8/2009) Investigation underway into fatal Louisiana copter crash (1/8/2009) Defect in lifeboat system forces shutdown of Kristin Field (12/12/2008) Reliance suspends operations at Dhirubhai 1 FPSO (12/12/2008) Three killed in copter crash in US Gulf (update) (12/11/2008) Copter carrying 5 passengers crashes in US Gulf (12/4/2008) Wildlife advocates decry seismic disturbing marine mammals (12/4/2008) North Sea-EU safety & working environment group formed (12/3/2008) CNOOC saves South China Sea corals by moving them (12/2/2008) Expro cuts flaring at BG's Karachaganak Field (12/2/2008) Damages but no injuries in Suncor upgrader fire (12/1/2008) Worker killed at Venezuela's Orinoco Petrocedeno project (11/24/2008) Ecosphere completes water recycling pilot with Newfield (11/21/2008) Court bars Shell drilling in Alaska's Beaufort Sea (11/20/2008) Alaska certification of Cook Inlet oil & gas discharges challenged (11/19/2008) Broken wellhead in US Gulf Sabine Lake leaking gas (11/14/2008) Gas flare fixed & Snorre A platform back onstream (update) (11/14/2008) ConocoPhillips battling gaswell fire in British Columbia (11/13/2008) Shell contains Nigeria oil spill caused by sabotage (11/12/2008) Norwegian North Sea platform shutdown due to gas leak (11/11/2008) Oil on sea surface shuts down UK North Sea Kittiwake (11/10/2008) Obama to overturn Utah drilling order (11/6/2008) Shell's Brent Delta platform wins British safety award (11/4/2008) Investigation concluded into North Sea Tordis Field oil leak (11/3/2008) Rig worker killed in Louisiana drilling accident (11/2/2008) Missing Petronas surveyors in Sarawak found (10/31/2008) French Creek oilwell blowout kills 2, injures 4 (10/31/2008) UK North Sea Heather Alpha platform evacuated (10/28/2008) Titan 1 jackup sinks in mid-Atlantic while in transport (10/20/2008) Two killed in Ohio oilfield explosions (10/19/2008) Beluga whales listed as endangered despite Palin opposition (10/19/2008) Fire on North Sea jackup sends crew to standby vessel (10/17/2008) Artumas agrees to Tanzania carbon offset deal (10/17/2008) Damage to West Triton jackup delaying drilling (10/15/2008) Oilfield worker killed on northern Alberta drillsite (10/7/2008) EnCana faces off against enviro groups on Suffield drilling (10/7/2008) US Interior to designate critical habitat for polar bears (10/5/2008) Alaska objections to polar bear protection flawed (10/5/2008) Gas pipeline ruptures on Prudhoe Bay production pad (9/29/2008) Rosneft & World Bank sign emissions reduction agreement (9/26/2008) Leak in Statfjord A shaft could have caused explosion - PSA (9/26/2008) Blowout in Russia's Krasnodar region still raging (9/19/2008) Norway's PSA investigating yesterday's Troll A accident (9/18/2008) Norwegian oil companies link for helicopter safety study (9/18/2008) Pennsylvania okays 73 Marcellus Shale permits (9/18/2008) Solitaire damaged in pipelay off Ireland (9/17/2008) Three killed, 4 injured in Medgaz mid-Mediterranean pipelaying (9/17/2008) BP shuts down Caspian's Azeri Field due to gas leak (9/16/2008) Investigation underway into Oseberg C leak (9/12/2008) US oilfield fatal injuries significantly up over 5 years (9/11/2008) Australia's NOPSA reveals fire on semi Stena Clyde (9/7/2008) Assam receives apology for drillsite too near Rang Ghar (9/7/2008) Fire on Pride Pennsylvania jackup off India (9/7/2008) Petrofac examining rig crash site before restarting (update) (9/5/2008) Seismic on Norway's Troll Field to look for CO2 storage possibility (9/4/2008) Seven killed in Petrofac copter crash off Dubai (9/2/2008) New generation freefall lifeboat for offshore industry (8/28/2008) ExxonMobil human rights case going to trial (8/28/2008) One killed & 3 injured in Oklahoma blowout (8/26/2008) StatoilHydro told to improve safety in operations (8/25/2008) Australia's Gippsland Basin said ideal for CO2 storage (8/21/2008) Results of 6-year study of seismic effects on Gulf of Mexico Sperm Whales (8/21/2008) Protestors paddle rough Irish Atlantic to halt pipelaying (8/20/2008) StatoilHydro's Kvitebjorn pipeline found leaking (8/14/2008) US BLM sells drilling rights to Colorado's Roan Plateau (8/13/2008) Rig worker dies in fall from derrick in Oklahoma (8/11/2008) ExxonMobil to support new malaria elimination strategy (8/7/2008) BLM sued to prevent drilling in Utah's Nine Mile Canyon (8/7/2008) Pontoon punctured on Henry Goodrich semisubmersible (8/5/2008) Alaska suing to remove polar bear protection (7/31/2008) Contractor seriously injured on Mosaic wellsite (7/27/2008) Washington blowout injures four rig workers (7/25/2008) Greenpeace targets Syncrude oil sands project (7/25/2008) Norway's PSA finds 4 regulation non-conformities on Gullfaks (7/22/2008) Colombia oilfield accident kills 3 Maurel & Prom workers (7/20/2008) IMCA reports on 59 DP incidents and their causes (7/15/2008) Death of 3 on rig support vessel Viking Islay due to suffocation (7/13/2008) Federal judge blocks Savoy exploration well in Michigan (7/9/2008) Suit to overturn regs allowing Chukchi Sea polar bear "takes" (7/9/2008) One killed & one injured in Suncor accident (7/7/2008) Norsk Helikopter to serve StatoilHydro & Eni Norge Barents Sea ops (6/27/2008) OPITO & ECITB link for shared learning of industry skills (6/25/2008) Fire aboard PGS seismic vessel Atlantic Explorer (6/15/2008) Fire on Oseberg A platform quickly extinguished (6/13/2008) Blowout in Mississippi triggers evacuation (6/11/2008) Barents Sea drilling plan did not meet regulations - PSA (6/10/2008) Oil spill laboratory inaugurated in Murmansk (6/9/2008) Maple Energy wins enviro okay for Peru projects (6/6/2008) Minimum 2 months before resumption of output at Varanus (update) (6/5/2008) Panna platform explosion off India kills one crewman (6/4/2008) Varanus Island blast & fire significantly cutting gas supply (update) (6/3/2008) Scores of fields off Western Australia halted by blast & fire (6/3/2008) Transocean fined for accident aboard semi off Australia (6/1/2008) Utah petroglyphs said endangered by further gas drilling (6/1/2008) MEC & Bounty seeking to explore in whale 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