Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:06:21 CDT reuters.com
Oil workers were trying to repair the damage and had cut about 2 meters of the pipeline . A fire was still burning at the condensate pipeline about 5 kms away, although officials said it was smaller than before. Ajdabiyah is some 30 kms away from Zueitina.
Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:05:29 CDT hispanicallyspeakingnews.com
Some 95.4 percent of the interest-free loan of 500 million pesos (about $39.3 million) provided by state-owned oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, in 2011 for employee housing has been spent, the STPRM oil workers union said.
Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:47:58 CDT hispanicallyspeakingnews.com
The children of the employees killed in the explosion last week at the Mexico City headquarters of state-owned oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, should be allowed to inherit their parent's jobs, oil workers union leader Carlos Romero Deschamps said.
Tue, 05 Feb 2013 05:35:28 CDT bloomberg.com
Bob Dudley, CEO at BP, talks with Bloomberg's Ryan Chilcote about the upcoming Gulf oil spill trial in the United States and the terror attack on oil workers in Algeria.
Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:39:18 CDT montrosepress.com
The Bakken Oil Field in North Dakota is the largest oil discovery on American soil in the last 40 years. But now that Bakken oil production has rocketed from 3,000 barrels to 600,000-plus per day in just six years, oil workers are flooding the state for jobs and finding no where to live.
Wed, 07 Nov 2012 12:20:25 CDT wsj.com
Statoil had to evacuate hundreds of people from a temporary housing platform in the Norwegian Sea in rough weather, the second time since September that offshore oil workers in Norway faced serious safety problems.
Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:29:48 CDT voanews.com
Part 2 of a 3-part series WARRI, NIGERIA - Over the past five months, Nigerian security services have torched more than 900 illegal oil refineries in the country's coastal areas, but locals say business hasn't stopped. While oil companies and the government complain they are losing more than $1 billion a month in proceeds from stolen oil, workers at the illegal refineries say the oil belongs to
Mon, 07 May 2012 14:46:49 CDT yahoo.com
A Brazilian judge threw out a civil lawsuit seeking to ban U.S. oil company Chevron and oil drill-rig operator Transocean from operating in Brazil because of a November oil spill, court officials said on Monday. Mauro Souza Marques da Costa Braga of the Second Federal Regional Tribunal in Rio de Janeiro rejected the case, launched by FUP, Brazil's largest oil-workers' union
Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:57:54 CDT yahoo.com
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's largest oil workers union filed a lawsuit against U.S. oil company Chevron and drilling firm Transocean that seeks to cancel their rights to operate in the country as the result of an offshore oil spill last November. The case, brought by the FUP oil workers federation in Brazilian federal court, raises the legal and political stakes for Chevron and Transocean
Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:07:27 CDT yahoo.com
An exclusion zone has been place around Total's leaking Elgin Franklin oil and gas platform in the North Sea and Shell has evacuated 85 oil workers from a nearby rig because of the danger of drifting gas.