LAGOS (Reuters) - French oil major Total has plugged a gas leak in southern Nigeria's Niger Delta region and no longer needs to drill an additional relief well to curb its flow, a spokesman said on Friday. The leak occurred in March on a block that also contains crude oil in Rivers state, one of the three main states that make up the Niger Delta, a vast wetlands region in the southeast where ...
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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Production in the Canadian oil sands is likely to increase at a much faster clip than the industry currently projects, an analyst said, putting more pressure on pipeline companies to vastly expand capacity out of Alberta. The forecast comes as companies plot billions of dollars worth of new pipeline routes to stave off costly bottlenecks. The latest is Enbridge Inc's ...
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - An oil spill was discovered off Brazil's coast near the country's Espirito Santo state, Brazil's Navy said on Thursday, the latest in a series of spills that have raised questions about the safety of a massive expansion of the country's oil production capacity. The Navy said it has sent a team to investigate and has no immediate estimate of the leak's size. Petrobras ...
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Labour, the Greens and Forest and Bird say a bill to regulate oil drilling in the EEZ is so weak it doesn't even meet international conservation laws.
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A pipeline break in central Alberta was dubbed minor by provincial regulators investigating a spill of light oil on Samson Cree First Nation land, the Energy Resources Conservation Board said.
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TORONTO/CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Enbridge Inc, Canada's No. 2 pipeline company, reported a 14 percent jump in quarterly earnings on Wednesday and said it remains committed to building the controversial C$5.5 billion ($5.5 billion) Northern Gateway pipeline despite fierce opposition from communities along the route. ...
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India's Supreme Court has banned the Exxon Valdez from entering India until the ship responsible for one of the worst U.S. oil spills is decontaminated.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell said it found two fresh onshore oil pipeline leaks in Nigeria's Delta region on Monday, three days after the company declared force majeure on exports of the high grade Bonny Light crude due to outages caused by oil theft. "Two new leaks were reported on May 7 on the trans-Niger pipeline at Akpajo and K-Dere in Ogoniland after a similar number of leaks caused ...
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell said it found two fresh onshore oil pipeline leaks in Nigeria's Delta region on Monday, three days after the company declared force majeure on exports of the high grade Bonny Light crude due to outages caused by oil theft. "Two new leaks were reported on May 7 on the trans-Niger pipeline at Akpajo and K-Dere in Ogoniland after a similar number of leaks caused ...
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Oil giant Shell on Monday said two new leaks had occurred on one of its pipelines in southern Nigeria after similar incidents in recent days blamed on crude theft.
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