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First Reported 22 hours ago - Updated 17 mins ago - 12 Documents

Risks Remain With Gulf Well Cap Coming Off, Govt. Offers No Promises Oil Won't Gush

NEW ORLEANS -- The cap that ended BP's three-month oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico was set to come off Thursday as a prelude to raising a massive, failed piece of equipment and preparing for a final seal on the broken seafloor well.Engineers and the government ... [Published 18 mins ago by Common Dreams]

Entities: BP plc, Thad Allen, Oil Spill, Rice University

First Reported Sep 01 2010 - Updated 25 mins ago - 14 Documents

Greenpeace International

Greenpeace Protesters Arrested On Oil Rig

Four Greenpeace activists have been arrested after abandoning their 40-hour protest on the Stena Don oil rig in Baffin Bay, Greenland. The protesters were forced to climb from their hanging tents onto the platform due to the harsh Arctic weather.They ... [Published 25 mins ago by Yahoo! UK and Ireland]

Entities: Greenpeace International, Stena AB, Greenland, Arrests, Cairn Energy plc

First Reported 17 hours ago - Updated 37 mins ago - 10 Documents

US Environmental Protection Agency

EPA proposes coal ash rules

-- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing national rules to ensure the disposal and management of coal ash from coal-fired power plants.Coal ash are byproducts of the combustion of coal at power plants and are disposed of in liquid form ... [Published 37 mins ago by Power Engineering]

Entities: Coal, US Environmental Protection Agency, Landfill, Combustion, Waste Management

First Reported 7 hours ago - Updated 44 mins ago - 11 Documents

Africa Oil Corp

Tullow Acquires 6 Licenses and Expands Footprint in East Africa - 09/02/2010

Source: Tullow OilTullow announced the acquisition of a 50% operated interest in six adjacent licenses covering the East African Rift Basins of Kenya and Ethiopia, an area of 97,000 sq km. Tullow has signed agreements with Africa Oil Corp to gain a 50% ... [Published 44 mins ago by TB Petroleum]

Entities: Africa Oil Corp, Ethiopia, Kenya

First Reported 11 hours ago - Updated 44 mins ago - 6 Documents

Lion Energy Amends Farmout Agreement with Africa Oil - 09/02/2010

Source: Lion Energy Corp.Lion Energy has come to an agreement with Africa Oil regarding certain amendments to the existing farmout agreement on all its east Africa assets. The amendment of the Lion farmout agreement with Africa Oil provides that Lion ... [Published 44 mins ago by TB Petroleum]

Entities: Africa Oil Corp, LION ENERGY LIMITED, Kenya, Somalia, John Nelson

First Reported 12 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 7 Documents

Western AU to Seize Land for LNG Project

SYDNEY (Dow Jones Newswires), Sep. 2, 2010Western Australia state said Thursday that it has begun a compulsory acquisition process for land planned for the massive Browse liquefied natural gas project, after talks with an indigenous land council failed ... [Published 1 hour ago by Rigzone]

Entities: Liquefied Natural Gas, Claimant, Mick Dodson, Acquisition

First Reported Sep 01 2010 - Updated 2 hours ago - 44 Documents

Oil falls towards $73 on economic unease

* Oil pares losses after mildly positive U.S. jobs data* Premium of 2nd month U.S. crude vs front stays wide* Coming Up: Pending U.S. homes sales data 1400 GMT(Updates after U.S. jobs data)By Alex Lawler and Joe BrockLONDON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Oil eased ... [Published 2 hours ago by Sharenet]

Entities: United States, Malaise, Alex Lawler, Petroleum, Tropical Storm Gaston

First Reported 21 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 6 Documents

Magellan Midstream to build additional crude oil storage at Cushing

Source: Magellan Midstream PartnersMagellan Midstream Partners(NYSE:MMP) plans to construct an incremental 2.25 million barrels of crude oil storage in the crude oil hub of Cushing, Oklahoma in conjunction with a private investor group.Combined with the ... [Published 2 hours ago by Oil & Gas Financial Journal]

Entities: Cushing (Oklahoma, United States), Crude Oil, Magellan Midstream Partners LP

First Reported 8 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 9 Documents

Russian Gazprom's net profit triples in first quarter

The net profit of Russian state gas monopoly Gazprom in the first quarter of 2010 has nearly tripled to 324.9 billion rubles (10.6 billion U.S. dollars), compared with the same period last year.According to the company's official website, the sales in ... [Published 4 hours ago by People's Daily Online]

Entities: Gazprom OAO, Net Profit, US Dollar

First Reported Sep 01 2010 - Updated 5 hours ago - 14 Documents

Husky buys natural gas lands in Alberta foothills from Talisman Energy (Husky-Energy)

CALGARY _ Husky Energy Inc. has agreed to buy natural gas lands in west-central Alberta that could be worth as much as half a billion dollars, doubling its operations in the region as it focuses on boosting near-term production growth.'This agreement ... [Published 13 hours ago by Oilweek Magazine]

Entities: Natural Gas, Husky Energy Inc, Talisman Energy Inc

First Reported 22 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 21 Documents

Gulf spill prompts surge in BP advertising spots

Washington -- Oil giant BP says it has spent more than $5 million a week on advertising since the Gulf Coast oil spill -- more than three times the amount it spent on ads during the same period last year. ... [Published 6 hours ago by Springfield News-Leader]

Entities: BP plc, Oil Spill

First Reported Sep 01 2010 - Updated 10 hours ago - 36 Documents

Encore Oil in new North Sea oil rush, BP sells assets plus Green Dragon news

BP have announced that it is raising over $400m by selling its stakes in two downstream oil and gas processing businesses in Malaysia as the oil major seeks to pay for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.Present facilities operator Petronas is to buy ... [Published 10 hours ago by UKCityMedia]

Entities: EnCore Oil, North Sea Oil, BP plc

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..."I am shocked and disgusted at this," Mr Fitzpatrick said. "This must have been a horrific ordeal for the woman and her son. People in the town will be appalled at the incident. "Those who are behind incidents like this must be caught. It is difficult to comprehend how anyone could be involved in something like this." It is understood that a motive for the attack has not yet been established. Local detectives have appealed for more information to help identify the culprits. ©$ UTV News"

Boy, 6, was in petrol-bombed house [UTV Internet - 14 mins ago]

Says Wijsmuller, "OSD aims to use its experience to help other renewable energy projects to develop. It is the ultimate in recycling, using existing experience and technology to move renewable energy from the innovation stage to real power production."

Ship designer goes with Neptune’s flow [Maritime Journal - 16 mins ago]

"The solar industry has grown at a rapid pace despite the uncertain economy," said Governor Rendell. "Investors and developers have proven anxious and eager to invest in clean solar energy projects. Venture capitalists alone poured $1.4 billion into the industry last year. Pennsylvania could attract a larger share of that action if we just increased the solar share of our portfolio standards law."

Pennsylvania to invest $20.5MM for 40 alternative, renewable energy projects to create 1,400 jobs [Penn Energy - 18 mins ago]

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