Security alert forces evacuation of North Sea oil rig: police
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A telephoned warning of a suspicious device forced the evacuation of a North Sea oil rig off Scotland on Sunday but it turned out to be a false alarm, emergency services said.
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The Saudi embassy in Kuwait City was briefly evacuated Saturday after officials received information a parcel containing explosives was inside the seaside compound, a security source said.
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Armed men have seized control of an oil complex in southern Nigerian owned by a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, authorities said Friday.
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A shipment of oil that North Korea has said it is awaiting before it begins to shut its nuclear reactor as part of a disarmament deal set sail from the South on Thursday, a port official said.
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A security operation is continuing in County Tyrone after a telephoned warning of a device in the area.
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Woman flown to Aberdeen for police questioning after hundreds evacuated from North Sea platform
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Multinational oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell has evacuated non-essential staff from two oil production plants in Nigeria where troops are fighting a major offensive against rebel militia, a spokesman said.
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Grampian police officers are being flown to a boat in the North Sea after one of its crew went missing overboard.
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Up to 400 Britons were being evacuated from Ivory Coast to Ghana under military escort last night as the Foreign Office strongly advised all UK nationals to leave the country.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 22--APEX -- Town police evacuated several units at a townhouse subdivision Thursday after an officer responding to a complaint found explosive materials in an apartment.
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PHILADELPHIA -- The US Coast Guard has deployed thousands of feet of protective boom to contain a 30,000-gallon oil spill in the Delaware River between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey.
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Moscow police are conducting a partial evacuation at the Kursk railway station in central Moscow as they search for explosives after receiving an anonymous phone call from a man threatening
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(CP) - An 18-metre fishing vessel is on fire off the coast of Newfoundland, and a Cormorant search and rescue helicopter has been dispatched to pluck six people from the water.
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Authorities beefed up security for Chinese engineers at an oil field and a refinery in a tribal region after local tribesmen mounted protests to demand jobs, an official said Thursday.
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Proposals for ship-to-ship oil transfers in the Firth of Forth are pulled by the area's harbour authority.
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A POLICE siege of a building in The Hague where suspected terrorists have been holed up since yesterday had ended with two people &quot;possibly&quot; arrested, the ANP news agency reported.
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Gunmen have invaded an oilfield control station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa state and are holding several soldiers and oil workers hostage, security and industry sources said on Friday.