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 First ships crawl up Mississippi after spillShips began crawling up the Mississippi River at New Orleans in a tightly controlled procession Friday, two days after a massive oil spill shut down a stretch of one of the nation's most critical commercial arteries.
Getting a lease for oil drilling just the start
The national debate over opening more offshore areas to oil and gas exploration has begged the question: Just what are the companies doing with the tens of millions of acres they're already leasing from the federal government?
Sunoco names Elsenhans 1st female CEO, president
Sunoco Inc. on Wednesday named former Royal Dutch Shell PLC veteran Lynn Laverty Elsenhans as its first female chief executive and president effective Aug. 8.
Shell Canada offers to buy Duvernay Oil for $5.16B
Royal Dutch Shell PLC on Monday offered to buy Canada's Duvernay Oil Corp. for 5.19 billion Canadian dollars ($5.16 billion) in cash, in a move to nearly double its North American natural gas production.
Bush decision on oil backed by industry
The oil industry applauded President Bush's announcement Monday that he would lift an executive ban on offshore drilling, even though no drilling will take place unless Congress lifts its own ban.
Patch of contaminated soil found at R.M. Arsenal
Workers at Rocky Mountain Arsenal have found an area of contaminated soil in a section of the property once used to dispose of hazardous waste.  Polar bear harassment by oil companies challengedTwo conservation groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the Bush administration's decision to let oil companies unintentionally harass or harm polar bears and walruses off the northwestern Alaska coast.  Nigeria's first oil well is still source of woeThree decades after pumping its last drop, the first oil well in Nigeria is marked by a decrepit signboard bearing what would seem an uncontroversial statement: |
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