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Health Safety Environment

(5/11/2008) Prudhoe Bay output halted by accident during blizzard

(5/11/2008) Peru cuts isolated Indian lands from licensing

(5/9/2008) FPSO Four Vanguard operations halted due to safety issues

(5/9/2008) Six injured in Premium Oil blowout in south Texas

(5/8/2008) ICF contracted to conduct environ studies off Brazil

(5/7/2008) Fire shuts down Transocean drillship in US Gulf

(5/6/2008) Total launches North Sea offshore anti-cancer program

(5/6/2008) Alaska Native & enviro groups sue to halt summer seismic

(4/30/2008) Hundreds of migrating ducks dead & dying at Syncrude project

(4/30/2008) CAODC hands out service rig safety awards

(4/29/2008) Libya's offshore Al Jurf Field shutdown to prevent blowout (update)

(4/28/2008) Chevron suspends seismic shoot due to forest fire

(4/28/2008) Naftogaz copter crashes into Tavrida jackup in Black Sea

(4/27/2008) Canada invests in Nova Scotia carbon project

(4/24/2008) Pemex orders custom firefighting rigs for platforms

(4/24/2008) ExxonMobil give $10 million to fight malaria

(4/20/2008) Protest calls for exploration withdrawal from Kamchatka

(4/20/2008) Pearl E&P seen as threat to Utah's "Spiral Jetty"

(4/18/2008) Tengizchevroil again fined for environmental violations

(4/18/2008) Few injuries in high activity saturated diving

(4/15/2008) Bahrain well fire out of control

(4/11/2008) Enviro program if permission to slant drill off California given

(4/11/2008) Gas release shuts down Woollybutt output off Australia

(4/9/2008) Lukoil enviro study finds minimum effect from Caspian well

(4/9/2008) 900 million cf/d gas shutdown by leak in Independence Hub

(4/9/2008) World Wildlife Fund opposes Alaska Bering Sea drilling

(4/7/2008) Wyoming elk herd being tested for CBM development tolerance

(4/2/2008) Half-million cf/d being lost in major Myanmar gas leak

(4/1/2008) Maersk meets enviro targets in Danish North Sea

(3/30/2008) Roughneck injury on West Alpha due to breech of procedures

(3/28/2008) No one reason for sinking of Bourbon Dolphin (update)

(3/26/2008) Tennessee's Oliver Springs well fire still burning (update)

(3/21/2008) Neptune TLP evacuated today in US Gulf

(3/20/2008) Karachaganak fined $15 million for unauthorized flaring (update)

(3/19/2008) Tennessee oilwell fire raging out of control

(3/17/2008) Saipem rig suffers explosion & fire in Gulf of Suez

(3/16/2008) Colorado's Roan Plateau to be licensed for drilling (update)

(3/13/2008) Serious deficiencies cited in Statfjord A oil spill

(3/12/2008) Dive support vessel explodes in US Gulf off Louisiana

(3/11/2008) StatoilHydro opts for greener supply vessels

(3/9/2008) Field worker killed at Orleans Energy wellsite in Alberta

(3/4/2008) Nigeria's Qua Iboe shut-in by oil leak

(3/3/2008) Landslide-severed Ecuador pipeline spills into Amazon river (update)

(2/27/2008) Petrobras crew copter crashes - 3 dead, 2 missing

(2/26/2008) US EPA proposes air emissions permit for Kulluk rig

(2/25/2008) BPZ does Corvina safety tests at government behest

(2/21/2008) Technip & Abermed launch health program for offshore workers

(2/20/2008) Eni and Enel join forces to combat climate change

(2/20/2008) Tengizchevroil again told to utilize sulfur

(2/18/2008) Oil spill at Total's Dalia FPSO off Angola

(2/17/2008) Safety violations cleared for Diamond Offshore semi

(2/16/2008) Alberta oil sands called "most destructive project on the planet"

(2/15/2008) Karachaganak JV fined $7.45 million for pollution

(2/11/2008) Oil spill in Russia's remote Yuzhnoye-Khylchuyuskoye Field

(2/10/2008) Ecuador hopes to negotiate end to Amazon drilling

(2/10/2008) Bomb threat triggers North Sea rig evacuation

(2/8/2008) StatoilHydro concludes Statfjord oil spill investigation

(2/6/2008) StatoilHydro & ONGC link for carbon capture & storage

(2/4/2008) Fire shuts down StatoilHydro's Njord A platform

(2/3/2008) Shell denies North Sea platform safety issues

(2/3/2008) 16 Saudi Aramco employees killed in highway accident

(2/1/2008) Lightning sets off huge fire at East Texas oilfield

(1/31/2008) BPZ Energy Reports Incident Involving Peruvian Navy Tanker (update)

(1/30/2008) BZP shuttle tanker burns & sinks offshore Peru

(1/28/2008) Precision Drilling field worker killed at Santos drillsite

(1/27/2008) Chevron grants $30 million to fight AIDS, TB & malaria

(1/24/2008) Aker Clean Carbon takes over CO2 capture technology

(1/23/2008) Arctic Council releases oil & gas assessment

(1/22/2008) Total Polar airship crashes in southern France

(1/21/2008) StatoilHydro asks for extended Snohvit start-up

(1/15/2008) Venture picks Xodus for enviro audit of FPSO

(1/10/2008) Mars fails to prevent Pinnacle from drilling on his ranch

(1/9/2008) Norway's PSA to investigate Draugen oil spill

(12/13/2007) North Sea Statfjord oil slick spreading but thin (update)

(12/12/2007) Large oil spill reported at North Sea's Statfjord A platform

(12/12/2007) IADC receives IRF safety award for HSE guidelines

(12/6/2007) Fire strikes Syncrude oil sands operations in Alberta

(12/5/2007) Cox rig worker killed in Texas well accident

(12/5/2007) Pemex brings Kab 101 Gulf of Mexico fire under control (update)

(12/5/2007) Petrobras recognized for offshore safety

(12/4/2007) Enviro attempt to halt drilling Wyoming's Atlantic Rim rejected (update)

(12/4/2007) Fire on semi Songa Dee off Norway

(11/29/2007) Fire strikes Noble drillship off Brazil

(11/28/2007) Damaged Pemex platform pouring oil into Gulf (update)

(11/28/2007) Small fire strikes Shell's North Cormorant platform

(11/26/2007) Coogee prosecuted for accident on FPSO Jabiru Venture

(11/26/2007) Damaged buoy leaking oil offshore Sakhalin Island

(11/26/2007) Shell stems long-term oilwell leak in Nigeria's Akwa Ibom

(11/25/2007) BLM Wyoming lease sale protested as harmful to river habitats

(11/25/2007) Fire strikes UK North Sea Thistle Alpha platform

(11/24/2007) Blowout on Devon gaswell in north Texas injures three

(11/23/2007) Enviro group protests planned nuclear power for Shtokmanovskoye

(11/22/2007) UK HSE labels UK offshore decaying & neglected

(11/21/2007) Blowout halts drilling near Louisiana highways (update)

(11/20/2007) Pemex's Kab 101 production platform on fire again

(11/20/2007) Maersk suspends Janice FPU output for safety review

(11/20/2007) Saudi Aramco pipeline explosion fatalities now at 40 (update)

(11/19/2007) Cudd called in to control burning Bridas Louisiana well

(11/18/2007) Oklahoma power plant to provide CO2 for EOR at mature oilfields

(11/18/2007) Crewman dies in accident on standby safety vessel

(11/18/2007) At least 28 dead in Saudi Aramco pipeline explosion & fire

(11/16/2007) Aker Kvaerner funds safe water supply in Angola

(11/14/2007) Fire engulfs Pemex's Kab 101 production platform

(11/14/2007) PSA investigation of West Epsilon accident finds negligence

(11/13/2007) Aussie Greens call for Coral Sea to be off limits to oil & gas

(11/11/2007) Japex to drill 1st exploration well in Philippines' Tanon Strait

(11/7/2007) MMS tests Shell's US Gulf spill response plan

(11/7/2007) Pemex offshore worker killed on Cantarell platform

(11/7/2007) Norway's PSA investigation into fatal accident on Saipem 7000

(11/6/2007) Pipeline ruptures on US Gulf Tammany Field

(11/6/2007) Helicopter crash at remote Tennessee oilfield kills three

(11/4/2007) Wyoming governor calls for 30,000-acre cut from lease sale

(11/1/2007) New offshore safety training standards for Europe

(10/31/2007) Maersk Logistics launches service to lower carbon emissions

(10/27/2007) Death toll reaches 21 in Pemex rig collision (update)

(10/26/2007) GEL Exploration fined for oilfield accident

(10/25/2007) Source sought for oil on New Zealand Taranaki beach

(10/25/2007) 18 dead in Pemex rig collision with Campeche platform (update)

(10/24/2007) Nigeria imposes fine for flaring associated gas

(10/24/2007) Pemex renews Radarsat contract with MDA

(10/24/2007) Death toll rises to 10 in Pemex rig crash during storm (update)

(10/23/2007) Transmeridian given okay for gas flaring in Kazakh field

(10/23/2007) Pemex supply boat sinks, one crewman missing

(10/18/2007) DONG fails Norway's PSA audit on Maersk Guardian

(10/18/2007) Shell extinguishes Nigeria Ogoniland fires after burning 4 months

(10/17/2007) Ecuador declares Yasuni rain forest off limits to oil operations

(10/15/2007) Shell Nigeria shuts in 300 million cf of gas following fire

(10/15/2007) OPITO setting offshore workers safety and training framework

(10/13/2007) Socar helicopter crashes in Caspian, all killed

(10/12/2007) One dead & two missing in Pemex crew ship fire

(10/11/2007) Sonardyne demonstrates underwater security

(10/11/2007) Fire at BP Alaska's Prudhoe Bay suspends 30,000 b/d

(10/10/2007) Three injured in Florida oil rig collapse

(10/10/2007) Rowan Companies pleads guilty to US Gulf pollution

(10/9/2007) New North Sea agreement to harmonize safety standards

(10/9/2007) Three Pemex workers killed in Veracruz pipeline

(10/8/2007) Collapsed floater takes one life, 7 others rescued

(10/5/2007) Contractor killed at EnCana gasfield in Colorado

(10/4/2007) Norway's PSA issues lifeboat orders to 19 operators

(10/3/2007) Suncor extinguishes oil sands fire, expects to restore output soon

(10/3/2007) Chevron's Tengizchevroil fined $609 million by Kazakh Ecology Ministry

(9/24/2007) Norway offering its continental shelf for storing CO2

(9/24/2007) Investigation underway into deaths at BP North Sea field

(9/15/2007) Tullow improving health in Uganda operations area

(9/14/2007) No exploration in Norway's Spitzbergen waters

(9/14/2007) Two injured in lifting incident on West Epsilon

(9/13/2007) Three killed in Textana plane crash in Montana

(9/13/2007) Fire shuts down DNO's Nabrajah Field in Yemen

(9/12/2007) Norway's PSA asks the industry for lifeboat answers

(9/12/2007) Alaska investigating BP North Slope fires

(9/6/2007) Deep Panuke passes Canadian enviro muster

(9/5/2007) Diver dies in US Gulf underwater explosion (exclusive)

(9/3/2007) Russia's Rosprirodnadzor found no Timan Oil & Gas violations

(8/31/2007) Russia hefts fines for flaring associated gas

(8/30/2007) Landslide tears through PetroChina field in NW China

(8/28/2007) Seismic shoot in Uganda Merchison Falls spark concern

(8/26/2007) BP studying enviro effects of potential BC CBM project

(8/23/2007) Maersk's North Sea Janice A platform evacuated

(8/21/2007) BLM tries again to sell drilling in Alaska NPR

(8/16/2007) Blowout hits Tri-Valley's California Pleasant Valley-1 well

(8/15/2007) Janice A platform in UK North Sea leaking oil

(8/15/2007) BP fire system off at Prudhoe when fire erupted

(8/14/2007) Fire sweeps Diamond Offshore semisubmersible engine room

(8/13/2007) PDVSA well blows in eastern Venezuela

(8/13/2007) Crewman drowns after falling from Saipem 7000

(8/12/2007) Negligence leads to ONGC Ankelshwar blowout

(8/10/2007) Petrobras health project set for Angola, Nigeria & Mozambique

(8/7/2007) Shell's Brent Bravo platform evacuated

(8/3/2007) Pilot killed when Bristow helicopter crashes in Nigeria oilfield

(8/3/2007) Two field workers seriously burned in East Texas gaswell fire

(8/2/2007) Eni starts project for child healthcare in Congo

(7/31/2007) Global rig crewman dies off Ghana, 15 others return to UK

(7/30/2007) Oz operators not to leave workers on mini-platforms overnight

(7/27/2007) Bourbon Surf collides with Grane platform in North Sea

(7/20/2007) 30 ONGC offshore support vessels fail safety tests

(7/20/2007) Opposition to sale prods BLM to withdraw Montana leases

(7/18/2007) Crewman dies in jackup capsizing off Belize

(7/16/2007) Transmeridian allowed to flare gas till November

(7/11/2007) Patterson-UTI issued fines for hazardous working conditions

(7/9/2007) ONGC supply vessel sinks - 5 missing, feared dead

(7/8/2007) Abandoned jackup ordered removed from Texas waters

(7/5/2007) Fire shuts down Petrobras' P-50 off Brazil in Campos Basin

(7/3/2007) Yates contracts produced water treatment for CBM wells

(7/3/2007) Western Australia's Dampier Archipelago rock art protected

(7/1/2007) Two rig workers injured in 2nd explosion on West Texas field

(6/29/2007) Bass Strait platform stopped by electrical fires

(6/28/2007) Bourbon's Athena suffers partial flooding of engine room

(6/27/2007) Carbon capture & storage for EOR study underway in UAE

(6/26/2007) Aussie unions complain of unsafe offshore conditions

(6/25/2007) Rentech & Denbury to use captured CO2 in EOR project

(6/25/2007) EU energy commissioner cites Sleipner carbon capture

(6/18/2007) BHP Billiton joins effort to counter climate change

(6/17/2007) Sicilians stop Panther Eureka from drilling in World Heritage site

(6/15/2007) Indonesia's Ujung Pangkah gasfield shutdown by fire

(6/14/2007) Mississippi oilfield fatalities due to unsafe conditions (update)

(6/14/2007) ExxonMobil recognized climate change risks 10 years ago

(6/13/2007) Kvitebjorn accident investigation concluded

(6/13/2007) Chevron recognized for HIV/AIDS fight in Africa

(6/12/2007) Nexen well discharging drilling waste in Louisiana bayou

(6/10/2007) Colorado's Roan Plateau opened for drilling despite protest (update)

(6/10/2007) Daqing Oilfield undertaking enviro-friendly project

(6/8/2007) Possible enviro violation investigation at EPL's East Bay Field

(6/7/2007) Enviro impact assessment set for North Falkland Basin

(6/7/2007) Statoil provides Russia 3 oil spill response systems

(6/6/2007) Three oilfield workers injured in Mississippi gaswell fire

(6/6/2007) Dolphin ordered to check review anchoring systems on 2 semis

(6/5/2007) Major oil spill on Sakhalin contaminates spawning river

(6/3/2007) Alaska & Canada arctic exploration threat to whales

(6/1/2007) Improvement needed in offshore workers exposure to chemicals

(5/30/2007) Bredford Dolphin not prepared for emergencies - PSA

(5/30/2007) Sakhalin 1 gets good marks from Russia's enviro inspectors

(5/29/2007) Hundreds of elephants found on Sudan island set for E&P

(5/28/2007) Seven Trinidad offshore platforms shutdown for safety check (update)

(5/25/2007) Well Ops fined for last year's fatal accident on the Seawell

(5/25/2007) No sale near Sun Tunnels land art (update)

(5/23/2007) Russia checking TNK-BP's Kovyktinskoye Field

(5/22/2007) One fatality & two injuries offshore Trinidad

(5/21/2007) Ireland doing enviro review of Porcupine Basin area

(5/21/2007) US BLM okays drilling in Wyoming's Atlantic Rim

(5/20/2007) BLM to let lands for oil & gas drilling near art site

(5/18/2007) Kerr-McGee agrees to emissions penalty & projects

(5/17/2007) BP & Rio Tinto to develop de-carbonized energy projects

(5/17/2007) ExxonMobil's global warming fig leaf falling

(5/16/2007) US carbon sequestration field test begins

(5/16/2007) Norway's PSA investigating Scarabeo 5 lifting incident

(5/15/2007) Second storage tank collapses at CNR's Horizon Oil Sands

(5/14/2007) Area objections shelf Alaska NPR auction

(5/14/2007) PSA questions chance of another Ekofisk well control incident

(5/10/2007) Fire on Total's N'kossa platform off Congo kills 2

(5/8/2007) Tullow employing WaterBridge on Horne & Wren platforms

(5/8/2007) BP warned of need for safety improvement in North Sea

(5/7/2007) Norway's PSA finds ExxonMobil maintenance management deficient

(5/7/2007) Fire hits world's 2nd largest oilfield, Kuwait's Burgan

(5/4/2007) BJ mobile flare unit used for clean flaring

(5/2/2007) Shell defaults on end to gas flaring court order

(4/26/2007) Persian Gulf coral colonies moved from pipeline route

(4/26/2007) Accident shuts down 90,000 b/d at Alaska's Prudhoe Bay

(4/26/2007) Accident on rig offshore Mexico kills 3, injures 4

(4/25/2007) Two Horizon Oil Sands workers killed in field accident

(4/24/2007) Ten Pemex employees missing in Tabasco pipeline explosion

(4/22/2007) UN enviro clean-up in Nigeria's despoiled Ogoniland

(4/22/2007) Standoff over New Mexico's Otero Mesa continues

(4/22/2007) Windsor paying penalty for Wyoming blowout

(4/20/2007) Roustabout severely injured in fall into rig's mud auger

(4/17/2007) Shell exploration of Alaska's Beaufort Sea appealed

(4/16/2007) Oilfield worker killed on Venezuela's Boscan Field

(4/16/2007) 77 workers injured in Australia's upstream last year

(4/16/2007) After taking 8 lives Bourbon Dolphin sinks (update)

(4/15/2007) Petroecuador wants compensation for not exploiting ITT fields

(4/13/2007) Three dead, five missing in capsized AHTS off Shetlands

(4/12/2007) Coast Guard airlifts rig worker from US Gulf rig

(4/11/2007) ConocoPhillips supports mandatory greenhouse gas reductions

(4/6/2007) East Tennessee gaswell fire still burning

(4/4/2007) Kazakhstan drops enviro claims against Tengizchevroil

(4/2/2007) Petronas executive killed in Ethiopia plane crash

(3/29/2007) Joint industry project to evaluate C02 storage in UK coalbeds

(3/28/2007) Rosprirodnadzor probing possible Sakhalin 1 violations

(3/27/2007) Nigerian government sues Shell for nuclear waste dumping

(3/20/2007) Viking Offshore takes delivery of 1st of 9 new vessels

(3/20/2007) ADFEC seeking bids on Abu Dhabi carbon capture study

(3/19/2007) Seriously injured GSF Rig 140 worker airlifted to hospital

(3/15/2007) Well fire strikes Infinity's Colorado Wolf Mountain well

(3/14/2007) Petromin joins GGSS in greenhouse gas projects

(3/13/2007) Five rig workers injured in Trinidad blowout

(3/13/2007) Fatal well fire in California's Star Fee Field

(3/12/2007) Shell Nigeria brings Nembe Creek spill under control (update)

(3/11/2007) Two injured in Texas oilfield explosion caused by cigarette

(3/9/2007) Russia's Nenets Okrug to offer "nuclear" gasfield

(3/9/2007) Shell still losing 187,000 b/d to Nigeria spill (update)

(3/7/2007) Fire shuts down Hydro's Oseberg platform

(3/6/2007) Shell Nigeria losing 187,000 b/d to oil spill

(3/6/2007) Baker receives 3 MMS US Gulf safety awards

(3/5/2007) Situation normalized after gas alarm on Heimdal

(3/5/2007) Statoil assisting Pemex in oilfield carbon reductions

(3/4/2007) Geofizika workers killed while placing seismic shots

(3/1/2007) Copter crash at Peru's Camisea Field kills 3, injures 4

(2/28/2007) Oklahoma gasfield explosion leaves 4 injured

(2/27/2007) Pemex considering oil spill clean-up technology

(2/23/2007) More woes for BP Alaska at Northstar Field (update)

(2/21/2007) Kazakh Enviro Ministry threatens Tengiz shutdown

(2/21/2007) Shell wins MMS approval for dozen Beaufort Sea wells

(2/20/2007) BP's Northstar springs a leak, shuts in 47,000 b/d

(2/20/2007) First-ever emergency response plan for well blowouts

(2/19/2007) Flames engulf Shell's Egwa Field in Niger Delta

(2/15/2007) Moray Firth & Cardigan Bay E&P threaten dolphins

(2/15/2007) Norway's Safety Authority orders evacuation equipment review

(2/14/2007) BP cleared of Prudhoe Bay well leaks

(2/13/2007) Era Helicopters confirms 2 deaths in Gulf copter crash (update)

(2/13/2007) ExxonMobil supporting US climate change policy

(2/13/2007) Two missing in copter crash off Louisiana

(2/12/2007) KPO disputes Kazakh emissions report on Karachaganak Field

(2/9/2007) Occidental expects Elk Hills operations to resume soon (update)

(2/8/2007) EnCana Barnett Shale gaswell leak evacuates area

(2/8/2007) First CO2 capture & sequestration project in depleted gasfield

(2/7/2007) California oilfield explosions injure 4 workers

(2/5/2007) Kazakh oil company fined $32 million for pollution

(2/5/2007) Oil spill spreading along central Vietnam coast

(2/5/2007) Statoil orders 2 new emergency response vessels

(2/4/2007) Oil spill near endangered California condor reserve

(2/2/2007) ExxonMobil grants $1 million to Angola's malaria control

(2/1/2007) France joins World Bank anti-flaring program

(1/31/2007) Statoil & Eni strengthen emergency response in Barents Sea

(1/30/2007) Copter crashes in South China Sea with 10 aboard

(1/29/2007) Bahrain national oil company expands oil-spill response

(1/28/2007) Nexen bans drinkers from offshore operations

(1/28/2007) Leaking offshore Louisiana wellhead capped in US Gulf

(1/26/2007) Exxon changes its policies on greenhouse gases

(1/25/2007) Trinidad platform gas leak leaves 8 injured, output shutdown

(1/25/2007) Nexen fined for 2005 North Sea platform gas leak

(1/24/2007) Noble gaswell blowout on Wyoming field

(1/24/2007) OPITO announces biggest single change to offshore safety

(1/24/2007) Fire cuts output from Suncor oil sands upgrader

(1/24/2007) Hydro drilling cuttings injection well on Fram East

(1/23/2007) Statoil in clean-up collaboration with Russia

(1/23/2007) Ogoni well fire extinguished, but leak unchecked

(1/22/2007) 3,500 people evacuated due to SW China gaswell leak

(1/16/2007) Oklahoma blowout under control

(1/9/2006) Bleo Holm FPSO scene of 1 fatality & 1 injury

(12/18/2006) US Coast Guard airlifts 3 from Matagorda 632A rig

(12/15/2006) Total's gas flaring to be cut 70% by 2012

(12/14/2006) Drilling now banned in New Mexico's Valle Vidal

(12/13/2006) Global oil drill cuttings technology tests confirmed

(12/12/2006) Gorgon development enviro decision welcomed

(12/11/2006) Petrobras' P-26 lists slightly over weekend

(12/7/2006) 12 water-use licenses suspended at Sakhalin 2

(12/7/2006) Injured helicoptered after accident aboard Rowan jackup

(12/6/2006) Shell Nigeria oilfield fire extinguished

(12/1/2006) Road ban ruling leaves 300 US leases in limbo

(11/29/2006) EnCana contract worker killed in Colorado gasfield accident

(11/29/2006) Two BP contractors killed in separate accidents

(11/26/2006) Welsh opposition to drilling in Cardigan Bay halts licenses

(11/23/2006) Repsol agrees to invest in Bolivia's Guarani communities

(11/23/2006) Russian enviro agency proposing rescinding 140 licenses

(11/23/2006) Java mudflow blamed for fatal gas pipeline explosion (update)

(11/22/2006) Pertamina pipeline explodes killing 5 injuring many more

(11/22/2006) Marathon's Brae Alpha back in business (update)

(11/21/2006) Montana wellfire sends 5 to hospital

(11/21/2006) Gas leak shuts down Marathon's Brae Alpha

(11/20/2006) Sakhalin Energy fixing eco flaws at Sakhalin 2

(11/14/2006) RosPrirodNadzor takes another run at Sakhalin 2

(11/14/2006) Shuttle tanker collides with Njord FSU in Norwegian Sea

(11/12/2006) Enviro study okays Kerr-McGee Bonanza gas project

(11/10/2006) Norway's PSA leaving lifeboat safety to owners & operators

(11/10/2006) Helicopter crash in Niger Delta has 1 dead, 3 injured

(11/9/2006) Niger Delta well fire extinguished after 3 months

(11/8/2006) Two-thirds of Tengiz Filipino workers going home

(11/7/2006) BP puts Valhall back onstream with approved lifeboats

(11/6/2006) Copter crashes enroute to ExxonMobil platform off Malaysia

(11/5/2006) Oil worker killed in Texas oilwell blowout

(11/5/2006) Kuwait pipeline explosion & fire not sabotage - Al-Jarrah

(11/2/2006) 29 killed in Chinese E&P accidents this year

(11/2/2006) ExxonMobil joins European greenhouse gases initiative

(11/1/2006) Lifeboat damage shuts down BP's Valhall Field

(10/30/2006) Worker dies due to accident on North Sea Ninian platform

(10/27/2006) Nexen's North Sea Buzzard producing H2S

(10/23/2006) PHI helicopter crashes in US Gulf

(10/22/2006) Petroecuador fighting oil spill near Yasuni National Park

(10/22/2006) Exceptional results in 2nd year of Eq Guinea anti-malaria project

(10/19/2006) Lapindo puts Panji mud flow cleanup at $180 million (update)

(10/19/2006) Statoil shuts down Snorre A & Vigdis due to storm (update)

(10/18/2006) Statoil shuts down Heidrun due to stormy sea

(10/15/2006) Search continues for 2 missing in US Gulf explosion (update)

(10/13/2006) Fatal barge accident shuts down US Gulf field

(10/13/2006) Norway Safety Authority shuts down Snorre A & Draugen (update)

(10/12/2006) Snorre A onstream despite PSA denial of lifeboat exemption

(10/11/2006) Total pledges to end Nigeria gas flaring in December

(10/10/2006) 4 die & 12 injured in Aker plane crash landing in Norway (update)

(10/9/2006) Chevron honors conservationists in 52nd awards

(10/8/2006) Colorado gaswell blows valve & releases gas

(10/8/2006) Alaska establishes agency to monitor oil operations

(10/4/2006) 800 evacuated in gaswell blowout in China

(10/2/2006) Sinopec ordered to halt exploration in Gabon park

(9/29/2006) Investigation underway on today's Songa Dee accident

(9/27/2006) Indonesia to resettle victims of East Java mudflow (update)

(9/25/2006) UK oil & gas industry issues guidance on managing malaria

(9/20/2006) Chukchi Sea seismic shoot to proceed despite whales

(9/20/2006) Royal Society says ExxonMobil misleading on global warming

(9/18/2006) Two Repsol rigworkers missing 5 injured in Algeria blowout

(9/15/2006) Woodside wins approval for Pluto LNG onshore facilities

(9/13/2006) IMCA issues guidance for offshore industry travel security

(9/12/2006) Purnomo team to stem Indonesian mudflow

(9/11/2006) Bideford Dolphin springs a leak while drilling

(9/8/2006) BLM to allow drilling atop Colorado's Roan Plateau

(9/6/2006) Petroecuador Amazon oil spill to take 6 months to clean

(9/6/2006) BP can't find further Prudhoe Bay corrosion

(9/6/2006) Kvitebjorn & Oseberg South back on production (update)

(9/5/2006) Hydro shuts down Oseberg South output

(8/31/2006) US MMS identifies US Gulf lease sale enviro areas & measures

(8/30/2006) Woodside's Kenya drilling being questioned

(8/30/2006) Statoil's Kvitebjorn platform shutdown by fire

(8/27/2006) New APPEA alert system boosts safety awareness

(8/24/2006) Gulf oil rig fatality rate worrisome to MMS

(8/22/2006) Frontier Drilling blowout in Lavaca, Texas still burning

(8/22/2006) Norway's PM challenges oil industry

(8/20/2006) Chevron cleaning up Unocal-tainted California lands

(8/20/2006) ExxonMobil facing C$1 million fine for Nova Scotia oil spill

(8/18/2006) MMS says Katrina & Rita spilled 17,640 bbl oil

(8/17/2006) Another accident at BP's Prudhoe Bay

(8/8/2006) Mudflow from Lapindo' Surabaya well shuts major highway (update)

(7/31/2006) Pertamina-Petrochina blowout under control (update)

(7/30/2006) Oilwell blows in Bojonegoro, Indonesia

(7/28/2006) Compensation sought from NNPC for oil spill damages

(7/27/2006) Enviro study set for Mozambique seismic shoot

(7/25/2006) New international lifeboat standard in offing

(7/25/2006) Sakhalin 1 pipeline spills 4 tons of oil on island

(7/25/2006) Shell Nigeria output hit by 180,000 b/d leak

(7/24/2006) Explosion injures 9 in Colombia's Las Monas field

(7/24/2006) Fire erupts on rig drilling Woodside's Vincent Field

(7/21/2006) East Java enviro disaster continues from Lapindo well (update)

(7/19/2006) BP shuts in 12 Alaska North Slope wells said leaking

(7/18/2006) Norway's PSA investigating dropped Kvitebjorn drillpipe

(7/14/2006) XTO rig worker falls to death from Fort Worth rig

(7/9/2006) Fatal platform fire on ATP-ExxonMobil US Gulf facility

(7/7/2006) Kazakh Enviro minister accuses Tengizchevroil of eco damage

(7/6/2006) Flood kills 3 Tuhu oil workers in NW China

(7/6/2006) BlackRock facility sustains fire damage

(7/5/2006) Norway's Enviro Ministry okays Barents Sea well

(6/29/2006) East Java out-of-control well inundating villages (update)

(6/27/2006) Fugro GEOS wins British Safety Council award

(6/23/2006) Hydro gets go-ahead for Troll modification work

(6/23/2006) Sunshine Gas testing CO2 storage

(6/22/2006) New Statoil program counters global warming

(6/21/2006) Safety instrumented systems set for 9 Pemex platforms

(6/20/2006) PSA concludes Visund accident investigations

(6/16/2006) New oil industry safety report shows encouraging trends

(6/13/2006) Lapindo accused of negligence in East Java spill

(6/8/2006) US DOE funding 3 enviro-friendly E&P projects

(6/6/2006) $8.2 billion Gorgon LNG project blocked by turtles

(6/6/2006) Norway's PSA establishes new Norwegian HSE unit

(6/6/2006) Three killed in Mississippi oilfield explosion

(6/2/2006) Shell given notice of safety violations on Draugen

(6/1/2006) Shell Nigeria pipeline leak shuts in another 50,000 b/d

(5/31/2006) Leasing at Utah's Great Salt Lake halted

(5/25/2006) Alberta Joslyn project steam release unsettles ground & trees

(5/23/2006) KCA Deutag wins IADC safety award

(5/23/2006) Statoil given notice to bring Island Frontier into compliance

(5/22/2006) Atlantic LNG Trinidad Train 2 accident injures employee

(5/21/2006) Syncrude ordered to shutdown part of heavy oil operations

(5/18/2006) MMS cites GSF drillship for operations

(5/16/2006) Fire puts Todco jackup out of commission

(5/15/2006) Roxar piloting oil-in-water monitor with Statoil

(5/12/2006) BLM sells oil rights to rare North American mammal habitat

(5/10/2006) Suspended Apache enviro license nixes Neuquen operations

(5/10/2006) US Gulf Typhoon platform donation as artificial reef

(5/9/2006) Nominees of pioneering environmental initiatives sought

(5/5/2006) Australia establishes new Marine Protected Areas

(5/1/2006) Spill from BHP's Lennox platform in Irish Sea hits beach

(4/27/2006) CETCO cleans up Triton FPSO contaminated water

(4/26/2006) Putin orders Siberia to Pacific pipeline away from Baikal

(4/26/2006) Petrobras to access Ecuador's Yasuni project via copters

(4/26/2006) XTO rig worker killed in Barnett Shale gasfield accident

(4/24/2006) Terra Nova oil spill off Eastern Canada being investigated

(4/23/2006) Nigeria achieves 36% decrease in gas flaring

(4/21/2006) Three killed in Oil Search helicopter crash in PNG

(4/17/2006) BP Alaska reports yet another pipeline leak

(4/14/2006) Intelligent alarm assessment project underway

(4/13/2006) California governor seeks ban on new offshore drilling

(4/12/2006) Nigerian court orders Shell to end flaring in 1 year

(4/7/2006) Pemex rigworker & crewman killed in separate accidents

(4/6/2006) BP Alaska being investigated by EPA

(3/28/2006) Blowout on beleaguered Shell Nigeria Bomu Field

(3/21/2006) Colorado fines EnCana for contaminating water wells

(3/21/2006) New injector well achieves zero discharge at Oseberg

(3/16/2006) Fire shuts down Shell's North Sea Tern Alpha platform

(3/15/2006) Hydro shutting down Troll C to remove flare plate

(3/15/2006) Statoil testing new CO2 capture technology

(3/14/2006) Oil industry health & safety training center now in Egypt

(3/13/2006) Enviro impact done for Main Pass Hub LNG project

(3/13/2006) Petrojarl I passes 15 months without incident

(3/12/2006) Largest oil spill ever recorded hits Alaska's North Slope (update)

(3/12/2006) Grey Wolf rig extensively damaged by fire

(3/8/2006) Prudhoe Bay output cut continues for cleanup (update)

(3/7/2006) Statoil monitoring Snohvit development enviro effects

(3/6/2006) Peru's Camisea export line leaking again (update)

(3/6/2006) Sonatrach adapting safety program for Algeria

(3/6/2006) Design fault caused Visund Field gas leak

(3/5/2006) Shell contracts RGIT Montrose for survival training

(3/3/2006) BP Alaska shuts in 100,000 b/d due to leak

(3/3/2006) Enviro studies set for leases in Unita National Forest

(3/2/2006) Jet-fire seals installed on Sakhalin platforms

(3/2/2006) Petrol Oil & Gas to use natural biocides in drill fluid

(3/2/2006) Peru's Camisea Field export line leaks to be investigated

(2/22/2006) Search & rescue helicopter complex set for BP's Miller platform

(2/22/2006) Cal Dive employee killed on Gannet Field aboard Seawell

(2/20/2006) Hydro's Grane Field back onstream after brief shutdown

(2/16/2006) BLM pulls protested leases from pending Utah sale

(2/16/2006) Fire on UK Rough Field sends 2 to hospital

(2/15/2006) SW Pennsylvania blowout injure six workers

(2/15/2006) Statoil concludes enviro pact with Russia's Murmansk region

(2/13/2006) Keppel worker dies, another injured aboard Capixaba FPSO

(2/10/2006) Petrobras fined $97.9 million for enviro damages

(2/10/2006) Occidental & BP evaluating CO2 sequestration for California

(2/9/2006) 3 Russian crewmen poisoned aboard Mezen seismic vessel (exclusive)

(2/9/2006) Statoil shuts down Kvitebjorn & Heidrun for repairs

(2/5/2006) Coast Guard reports jackup leg adrift in US Gulf

(2/3/2006) Two offshore workers injured in North Sea rig accident

(2/3/2006) Ecuador court experts confirm Sacha-53 no enviro risk

(2/2/2006) Visund gas leak caused by loose metal plate (update)

(2/1/2006) Smoke shuts down Hydro's Oseberg South platform

(2/1/2006) Hydrocarbon releases have acute health effects

(1/31/2006) Potentially dangerous conditions found in Visund gas leak investigation

(1/30/2006) Transneft says may sue ecologists over pipeline

(1/26/2006) Sakhalin 2 contract worker found murdered on site

(1/25/2006) East Siberia-Pacific pipeline found environmentally unsafe

(1/20/2006) Stena Drilling warned not in HSE compliance

(1/20/2006) Statoil evacuates 1,100 employees from Snohvit

(1/19/2006) Norway's Safety Authority investigating Visund gas leak (update)

(1/16/2006) Statoil's Asgard B, Mikkel & Kristin Fields shutdown

(1/15/2006) Judge stops proposed Wyoming 3D seismic shoot

(1/15/2006) Statoil plugs a Statfjord C platform leak

(1/13/2006) ExxonMobil ordered to shutdown Alma injection system

(1/13/2006) Statoil concludes Norwegian enviro agreement

(1/13/2006) Norway's PSA to investigate serious incident on Ekofisk

(1/12/2006) US to license Alaska's Teshekpuk Lake region

(1/9/2006) Precautionary mustering principle improves safety

(1/8/2006) Woodside watching Cyclone Claire off NW Australia

(1/6/2006) Canada opening beluga waters habitat to exploration

(1/6/2006) EnCana asks Colorado to lift drilling moratorium

(1/4/2006) Hydro's Njord Field through tubing rotary drilling audited

(1/3/2006) Ecopetrol brings sabotage well spills under control

(1/3/2006) Statoil quickly controls fire on Snorre platform

(12/12/2005) ExxonMobil finds gas leak on Indonesia's Arun Field

(12/8/2005) Statoil expands fire water on Snorre platform

(12/8/2005) Peru's Camisea Project being audited for lack of enviro safety

(12/8/2005) Norne oil spill greater than originally thought

(12/7/2005) Norway's PSA audit finds Alvheim hull HSE positive

(12/5/2005) Norway's enviro authorities seek delay in Barents Sea exploration

(12/2/2005) Angola Project 1st under Institut Pasteur-Total agreement

(12/2/2005) Norway's PSA grants change for Haltenbank emergencies

(11/30/2005) Norway's PSA cites Stena Dee for irregularities

(11/29/2005) TODCO rig damaged during jack-up in US Gulf

(11/25/2005) Statoil removal of standby vessel on Asgard Field okayed

(11/24/2005) Oil spill near rig drilling Norwegian Sea Norne satellites

(11/23/2005) Parker's Rig 247 suffers blowout in Turkmenistan

(11/20/2005) Colorado postpones decision on permitting more wells

(11/17/2005) Changes to Canadian offshore exploration enviro regulations

(11/16/2005) Safety non-conformities found on Hydro's helideck on Heimdal

(11/14/2005) Taraveyskii Field oil spill inundates Russian tundra

(11/13/2005) 200 crewmembers rescued from drifting LB200 laybarge

(11/11/2005) Utah offering Great Salt Lake leases spurs protest

(11/9/2005) Third Tengratila relief well ordered on Bangladesh gasfield (update)

(11/9/2005) Environmentalists oppose Siberian pipeline near Lake Baikal

(11/9/2005) Well interventions have potential for major accidents

(11/9/2005) Emergency response service center open in Aberdeen

(11/4/2005) New guidelines for surface-supplied mixed gas diving

(11/4/2005) Solstad confirms fire aboard AHT Normand Neptun

(11/1/2005) Blowout on Statoil's Snorre A platform analyzed

(10/28/2005) C-NLOPB calls for opinions on Orphan Basin drilling

(10/27/2005) CNOPB gives blessing to oil & gas ops with reservations

(10/27/2005) Integrated operations require cooperation & HSE considerations

(10/25/2005) PetroChina awards $2.3 million HSE contract to ESS

(10/24/2005) Niko completes Bangladesh blowout relief well (update)

(10/23/2005) BP worker loses hand in UK North Sea platform accident

(10/23/2005) Kiewit Offshore employee killed in fall

(10/21/2005) Sleipner restarted following another small gas leak

(10/21/2005) Asgard B restart after fire delayed (update)

(10/20/2005) 1 dead, 2 injured in West Virginia well explosion

(10/19/2005) Ekofisk fit for extreme weather & waves

(10/17/2005) Gas leak shuts down Hydro's Njord Field

(10/14/2005) Asgard B platform fire under control

(10/14/2005) Rig worker killed in North Texas drilling accident

(10/13/2005) Report finds Barents Sea spill no threat to environment

(10/13/2005) Gas leak on Sleipner shuts down output

(10/9/2005) Southwestern Iran pipelines struck by fires

(10/7/2005) Free-fall lifeboats safest means of evacuation at sea

(10/6/2005) Well blowout & fire extinguished after 21 days

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