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Norway police arrest Greenpeace activists at Statoil Arctic oil rig site
2014-05-30 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Norwegian energy firm Statoil has said that Greenpeace activists who boarded Transocean Spitsbergen drilling ship are now in police custody.
Greenpeace activists board arctic oil drilling rig
2014-05-27 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Greenpeace activists boarded an oil rig in the Norwegian Arctic on Tuesday to try to stop exploration plans in the far north. Greenpeace, which regularly calls Statoil an 'Arctic aggressor', said plans to drill in the Hoop area of the Barents Sea threaten Bear Island, an uninhabited wildlife sanctuary which is home to rare species and occasionally to polar bears. Oil firms are drilling further north in Norway than ever as the Arctic ice retreats and recent regulation changes let firms work in areas...
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Eureka Safety-Full Impact Protection Heavy Duty Oil Rig Gloves
2014-03-13 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
"Safety through progress" is Eureka's leading driving force, which has resulted in a family of working gloves specifically developed for use in the oil and gas industry.
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U.S. oil and gas rig count rises by 8 to 1,785
2014-02-01 00:47:32| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. says the number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. rose by eight this week to 1,785.
Russia starts pumping oil Arctic rig raided by Greenpeace
2013-12-20 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Persse: Russia's state-held energy giant Gazprom said Friday it had launched production at an Arctic oil rig raided in September by 30 Greenpeace activists whom the authorities later detained for two months. The landmark announcement marked the formal start of Russia's long-planned effort to turn the vast oil and natural gas riches believed to be buried in the frozen waters into profits for its ambitious government-run firms. But it also outraged campaigners who see the Arctic as one of the world's...
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