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EIA: Offshore drilling won’t impact prices until…2030…if then.

0 Comments Published by Steve Kretzmann June 18th, 2008 in Offshore, Separate Oil and State, oil rigs, oil subsidies

I had just started to draft a blog about this when I caught Joe Romm’s excellent post on the same topic. Over to you, Joe: Or, jump directly to the Energy Information Administration’s report.

Hurricane Forces Mexico to Evacuate Oil Rigs

0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell August 20th, 2007 in Hurricanes, Offshore, Safety, oil rigs

Mexico has started to evacuate 13,360 workers from its Gulf of Mexico oil rigs as powerful hurricane Dean neared.
According to state oil company Pemex, which produces some 70 per cent of its crude oil from offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico and is a major supplier to the United States, the […]

Oz: Oil Rigs to Become Coral Farms

0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell July 17th, 2007 in Australia, Offshore, oil rigs

Decommissioned oil rigs off Australia’s coastline could become hubs for marine-based businesses such as coral harvesting for aquariums, a fish expert argues.
Professor David Booth, of the Sydney Institute of Marine Science and University of Technology, Sydney, says there are up to 60 oil rigs in Australian waters that are due to be decommissioned in the […]

Biggest UK Oil Rig Project For A Generation Announced

0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell November 6th, 2006 in Oil, oil rigs

25,000 people may have marched through London demanding urgent action on climate change and delegates are in Nairobi for the most crucial climate talks in recent years. But it is business as usual for the oil industry. The biggest drilling rig construction project undertaken in Britain for more than a generation has just been announced.