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...appealed to the governor's office and local legislators, likening the closure of the creamery to shuttering a small oil well."The industry is basically broken now as an industry. It'll have to restart small, if it does," she said.McFarlane...
...exploratory wells in Arctic waters.The capping stack looks like a giant spark plug and is designed to kill an undersea oil well blowout by providing a metal-to-metal seal on a malfunctioning blowout preventer.Shell is sending the capping stack...
...coast.New Zealand officials say three of eight anchor cables broke after the crew had already disconnected from the oil well when alerted to bad weather approaching. Soon after the incident, Shell officials said there were no injuries or harm...
...introduced a companion to the House bill that adds lease sales off the mid-Atlantic coast, allows exploration from existing oil wells in southern California and provides revenue sharing to states with energy production off their coasts. Virginia's two...
...start their journey to the Arctic this week.When the Shell ships arrive in the Arctic to begin boring five exploratory oil wells, the environmental group will be there, the Kodiak Daily Mirror reported .Shell Oil spokesman Curtis Smith said Friday...
...rolling back the regulations to pre-1991 levels would mean repealing rules that require blow-out preventers on deep sea oil wells as well as reversing subsistence hunting and fishing regulations, among many other things.Williams said regulations...
...a year in the future, while his Department of Revenue is predicting a 3 percent annual decline over the next decade.Oil wells and oil fields normally decline as they age, but additional drilling and other measures can slow that rate of decline...
KENAI - The Independent Baptist Church on Oil Well Road in Ninilchik sat with a for-sale sign posted on its exterior for about two years.Ned and Christina West eventually purchased...
...Ken Salazar announced he was ending the deep-water drilling moratorium imposed in April following the BP deep-water oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. Salazar said at the time he was imposing a drilling suspension on drilling in the Beaufort...
...Kenai Republican, Murkowski said. Wagoner's bill would reduce the state's share of revenues from some Cook Inlet oil wells. The proposed severance tax credit would apply to new exploration wells begun after July 1, 2004, Murkowski said...