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Houston -
Chevron Oil has confirmed it is working to contain an explosion on a natural gas drilling rig approximately six miles off the Nigerian coast, with two contractors on the rig unaccounted for.
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Quito -
A court in Ecuador confirmed on appeal a sentence issued in February 2011, which orders the U.S. oil company Chevron to pay US$ 18 billion to villagers for environmental damages in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
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The oil company Chevron faces a fine over an oil spill. The company is going to be fined $28 million, the Brazilian government announced.
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In yet another environmental disaster, off shore oil drilling has caused 416,400 litres of oil to flood into the sea 370km (230 miles) off the Brazilian coast.
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San Ramon -
Situated in 6,759 feet of water and drilled to a depth of 31,545 feet, Chevron and BP have announced a new oil discovery in the “prolific” Lower Tertiary Trend, located in the Gulf of Mexico deepwaters 216 miles off the Louisiana coast.
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London -
An explosion Thursday evening at Chevron’s Pembroke oil refinery in southwest Wales killed four workers and a fifth worker was hospitalized with serious injuries, with no health or safety risks to the public being reported.
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Greenpeace activists Tuesday occupied an oil drilling ship anchored off Shetland Isles to push for a ban on deepwater drilling in the North Sea. Two members used boats to reach the 228-metre Stena Carron and attached themselves to its anchor chain.
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After being noticed early on Tuesday morning, the US Coast Guard, State of Louisiana and the Cypress Pipeline Company have been working for days to contain a pipeline leak that has seen 18,000 gallons of oil released.
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Chevron says that it will be cutting 2,000 jobs and selling some overseas projects to restore its struggling marketing, refinery and transportation operations.
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A rights group has accused Western energy giants Total and Chevron of helping the military regime in Burma earn nearly $5 billion from gas projects that they run in the Southeast Asian country.
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Chevron Headlines
Oil company Chevron will drill a third well at the Orphan Basin off the east coast of Newfoundland, despite its lack of success there so far.
 Chevron Canada is preparing to do 3D seismic work in the Beaufort Sea this summer as part of its oil and gas exploration program.
Brazilian prosecutors say they will bring charges against 17 executives from the US oil firm Chevron and a drilling contractor after a new leak.
An Ecuadorean appeals court upholds a ruling that Chevron should pay damages totalling $18.2bn (£11.5bn) over Amazon oil pollution in a long-running battle.
A gas-fuelled fire, with flames as high as 5m, may burn for months in waters off the Niger Delta in south-east Nigeria, a Chevron spokesperson tells the BBC.
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