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State-controlled Norwegian oil company StatoilHydro ASA was forced to shut down its Statfjord C offshore oil platform Friday after it leaked water contaminated by oil into the North Sea.
Endeavour International Corp. said Tuesday it abandoned a North Sea petroleum well after it failed to encounter commercial amounts of hydrocarbons.
British gas distributor Centrica Group PLC said Monday it has accumulated a 50.3 percent majority stake in its takeover target, North Sea drilling company Venture Production PLC.
Energy company BP PLC said Thursday it was suspending flights with a company that runs transport to offshore oil rigs after one of the firm's Super Puma helicopters crashed in the North Sea, killing all 16 people aboard.
Tough training and an airbag-like flotation system helped save the 18 people caught aboard the Super Puma helicopter that crashed into the North Sea, a union official and safety experts said Thursday.
The Netherlands' Transportation Ministry has granted a construction permit for a new wind turbine farm in the North Sea which would be the largest so far in Dutch waters.
The European Union and Norway joined forces Thursday to permit larger catches of cod in the North Sea while still increasing protection for the commercially endangered fish by tackling waste.
Taller than any of the country's soaring cathedrals, six off-shore windmills rise up from the gray, choppy North Sea waters, ready to start delivering green electricity and reward a euro150 million ($200 million) investment.
The British coast guard says workers have been evacuated from a North Sea oil rig after a reports of a spill.
Norwegian oil company StatoilHydro ASA says it has halted oil and gas production on a North Sea platform after a fire broke out.
About 200 people were evacuated from an oil platform in the North Sea on Saturday as workers tried to contain an oil leak that occurred during maintenance work, officials said.
Workers returned to the Grangemouth refinery in central Scotland on Tuesday after a 48-hour strike that forced the closure of a major North Sea pipeline system.
Oil prices hit an all-time high near $120 a barrel Monday after a weekend refinery strike closed a pipeline system that delivers a third of Britain's North Sea oil to refineries in the U.K.
Hundreds of workers were being evacuated from an oil rig in the North Sea following an apparent bomb scare Sunday.
Energy futures rose sharply Wednesday after the government reported unexpected declines in supplies of crude and heating oil last week.
A powerful storm unleashed tidal surges and ferocious winds that prompted hundreds to evacuate in Britain, but left countries along the North Sea coast largely unscathed.
Oil prices crept slightly higher Friday as markets took a breather from the feverish trading that has fueled a race to record prices.
Oil futures fluctuated Thursday as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke issued a warning about economic growth that tempered some of the market's supply concerns.
The crew of a replica Viking longship dropped plans to sail across the North Sea on Monday because of unfavorable winds and was to be towed to a group of islands north of the Scottish mainland.
A 100-foot-long replica of a Viking longship glided out of a Danish fjord Sunday with 65 crew members determined to sail across the North Sea to Ireland.
Halliburton will shift some 70 percent of its capital investment over the next five years to the Eastern Hemisphere, which includes oil and gas zones in the Middle East, Russia, Africa, the North Sea and East Asia, the company's chief said Tuesday from his new headquarters in Dubai.
The Pilot's Ghost of Montrose | SocybertyThis is probably the oldest ghost story in the history of aviation.
North Sea gives up Neanderthal fossilPart of a Neanderthal man's skull has been dredged up from the North Sea, in the first confirmed find of its kind. Scientists in Leiden, in the Netherlands, have unveiled the specimen - a fragment from the front of a skull belonging to a young adult male.
When the Spanish conquered America, pretty soon gold was all that mattered. It was like finding cash. Spanish coffers were brimming with the stuff, never had the world seen such wealth. Then they went and blew it all on the Spanish Armada and castles in the sand.
Fuel-cell car rally opens Norway's new hydrogen highwayNorway opened a 560 kilometre "hydrogen highway" on Monday with more than a dozen hydrogen-powered cars rallying along a scenic route between its capital city Oslo and North Sea oil hub Stavanger.
Hand Axes, 100K years old, dredged from North Sea win archaeology awardTwenty eight flint hand-axes, which may be more than 100,000-years-old, were discovered in marine sand and gravel delivered by Hanson to a Dutch wharf at Flushing, south west Netherlands in February this year.
Archaeology: Fire lays bare prehistoric secrets of the moors in YorkshireUnique rock art and unprecedentedly clear bronze age field boundaries have emerged from the soot and cinders which were all that was left of two-and-a-half square miles of the North York Moors national park when fire crews and heavy rain finally swamped the area in September 2003 …
Plan to trap CO2 under North SeaMillions of tonnes of industrial carbon emissions could be stored under the North Sea, a major study has proposed. Liquefied carbon dioxide would be pumped into depleted gas fields where impervious rock would stop it escaping.
Stone Age Hand Axes Found at Bottom of North SeaAn amateur archaeologist has found an unprecedented collection of Stone Age hand axes among material collected at the bottom of the North Sea.
Britain Evacuates North Sea RigLONDON (Reuters) - British defense officials said they had sent about 14 helicopters to evacuate a North Sea oil rig on Sunday following a security alert.
Breaking News: RAF Helicopters Evacuating North Sea Oil Rig Hundreds of oil workers are being evacuated by helicopter from a North Sea rig after a security alert. A bomb disposal unit was on its way to the facility that are off the coast of Aberdeen.
Seafarers' fishy tales are soughtThe National Seal Sanctuary in Gweek is offering £150 for the best story. The centre last held a story contest 10 years ago, when the winning tale was about an exhausted peregrine falcon found in the North Sea.
'Serious' blaze on oil platformA North Sea platform with 159 people on board is being evacuated after a "very serious" fire broke out at 0830 GMT on Sunday. Seven rescue helicopters have been scrambled to the Thistle Alpha platform after smoke and flames were seen.
Jellyfish wipe out salmon farmThe only salmon farm in Northern Ireland has lost its entire population of more than 100,000 fish, worth some $2 million, to a spectacular jellyfish attack, its owners said Wednesday.
IEA Chief Economist: "We are headed for very bad days"Oil prices hit a record high of $97 a barrel on Tuesday, but the next generation of consumers could look back on that price with envy.
North Sea cod stocks improve but quotas should remain, council says Stocks of North Sea cod have slightly increased but quotas should remain in place for 2008, the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) said Friday.
British seas 'a wasteland compared with 100 years ago' The seas around Britain are a wasteland compared with 100 years ago and at least a third of the sea must be closed to fishing if the profusion of fish we had then is to return, according to a new book.
World's first floating wind farm to be built in North Sea This is fantastic news, especially considering how much of an eyesore wind turbines are, having to be currently set in shallow waters, so that the bases could be connected to the sea bed and providing an ugly coastline.
Europeans Plan Floating Windmills for North Sea Norwegian energy group Norsk Hydro and German engineering firm Siemens recently announced that they have joined forces to research and build a floating wind turbine.
BP scraps £500m Scottish carbon capture scheme | | Guardian Unlimited BusinessBP scraps £500m Scottish carbon capture scheme Terry Macalister Friday May 25, 2007 The Guardian
AP Moller Maersk believes oil production in North Sea has reached its peakThe North Sea used to be a bottomless oil pit, but now it seems the pit is reaching its end.
Lost World Warning from the North SeaArchaeologists are uncovering a huge prehistoric "lost country" hidden below the North Sea. This lost landscape, where hunter gatherer communities once lived, was swallowed by rising water levels at the end of the last ice age.
"Smallest Country" for Sale -- Sea Views Included, Land ExtraIt's not every day you see a real estate listing advertising "the possibility to have your own country. … something exclusive to a very few lucky people." But that's one current offer from the InmoNaranja agency in Motril, Spain.
The Pirate Bay plans to buy islandSwedish file-sharing website The Pirate Bay is planning to buy its own nation in an attempt to circumvent international copyright laws.
Kyrill kills twelveWith its hurricane-force winds, the storm German meteorologists dubbed "Kyrill" is leaving a trail of destruction in its wake as it travels across Northern and Central Europe. Twelve have been killed so far, but there have been no estimates of the total damage.
Danish cod factory to close: not enough codFishing industry newshub IntraFish has reported that Espersen, the cod processor supplying McDonald's Europe and huge brands such as Birds Eye and Iglo, will close its main Danish plant. The two main reasons? Reduced cod quotas and, very simply, not enough cod.
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