Offshore oil drilling News
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With Big Oil raking $36 billion in profits, on March 1, 2011, Rep. William Keating (D-MA) offered a motion on the House floor, saying, “let’s stop sending taxpayer’s money to the most profitable companies in the world,”
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Saint John's -
A Canadian offshore petroleum regulator told media representatives during a press conference June 2 that Canada does not have to worry about a BP disaster occurring off Canada's east coast.
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Seven American Greenpeace activists, including two who daringly painted a message in crude oil on an offshore drilling ship on May 24, were arrested. The seven face three separate charges for the incident.
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Canada used to have fairly strict regulations for offshore oil extraction endeavours, but if you ask the oil industry, the Canadian government hasn't gone far enough on relaxing the rules.
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If the Republicans are really concerned about the rising gasoline prices they should help pass pass the bill to rise oil from the strategic reserves instead of jeopardizing the environment by blindly pitching for offshore oil drilling.
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Offshore oil drilling Headlines
Search begins for Cuba's offshore oil deposits
Cuba is to begin exploratory drilling in search of oil - this weekend a rig will begin drilling for oil just 100 kilometres from Florida.
Turkey begins drilling for oil and gas onshore in northern Cyprus despite protests from the Republic of Cyprus that the action is illegal.
Conoco Phillips and China National Offshore Oil Corporation agree a compensation deal for the oil spill at their field in China.
 Statoil says it has reached a deal for a rig to drill three wells in the Newfoundland offshore in 2012 and 2013.
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A photograph of the exploratory drilling rig owned by Cairn Energy, the Stena Don. The rig is currently anchored between Baffin Island and Greenland where drilling is underway in a bid to find crude oil.
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