BP, BHP Evacuate Workers From Trinidad Rigs as Ivan Approaches
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BP Plc, Europe&#39;s largest oil company, said it evacuated 500 non-essential workers from offshore rigs near Trinidad and Tobago as Hurricane Ivan approached the Caribbean country.
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Hurricane Ivan, which left a swath of  death and destruction across the Caribbean, wrought havoc on  oil drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico before rampaging  across the Florida and Alabama coast on Thursday.
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Crude oil futures rose on concern Hurricane Ivan may disrupt production, refining and the arrival of shipments as it moves into the Gulf of Mexico, where a quarter of US oil and natural gas is pumped.
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NEW ORLEANS - More than 1.2 million people in metropolitan New Orleans were warned to get out Tuesday as 140-mph Hurricane Ivan churned toward the Gulf Coast, threatening to submerge this below-sea-level city in what could be the most disastrous storm to hit in nearly 40 years.    Residents streamed inland in bumper-to-bumper traffic in an agonizingly slow exodus amid dire warnings that Ivan could overwhelm New Orleans with up to 20 feet of filthy, chemical-polluted water...
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HURRICANE Ivan has strengthened to Category 3 but Trinidad and Tobago is in no immediate threat . At 5 pm yesterday Ivan was about 1360 km east of Trinidad and Tobago.
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Parts of the Caribbean are bracing themselves for the arrival of Hurricane Ivan within the next 36 hours.
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NEW ORLEANS Five offshore oil rigs were set adrift in the Gulf of Mexico and three others were damaged by Hurricane Ivan. The Coast Guard says it received a report from Diamond Offshore that a 335-foot semi
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Marathon Oil Corp., the fourth- largest US oil producer, evacuated about 40 workers from platforms in the Gulf of Mexico and cut production as Hurricane Ivan entered the region.
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NEW YORK - Energy companies today were taking more than 3,000 workers off drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Hurricane Ivan, a powerful Category 5 storm, and were shutting much more oil production in the Gulf than had been shut by a pair of
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Apprehensive coastal residents from Florida's Panhandle to Louisiana prepared to flee from massive Hurricane Ivan, which has entered the Gulf of Mexico and is on a collision course with the Gulf Coast.
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Shell oil company is evacuating non-essential employees from the Niger Delta area in Nigeria amid fears of clashes between government forces and armed bandits operating in the region.
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Tens of thousands of people from a 300-mile swath of the Gulf Coast fled Hurricane Ivan and winds of 140 miles per hour.
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Hurricane Ivan spared the critical Gulf Coast refining belt, but oil prices rose anyway Thursday on fears a new storm brewing in the Caribbean will delay tankers carrying imported crude to US ports.
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World oil prices rose on Tuesday as  Hurricane Ivan charged toward the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico,  where energy companies evacuated thousands of offshore workers  and halted some production.
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An oil rig in the North Sea is being  evacuated in a security alert, it is  confirmed by police.
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Oil prices were in focus as OPEC ministers meet in Vienna on output levels and as oil majors shut-in production and evacuated workers ahead of Hurricane Ivan blowing into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Hurricane Ivan roared into the Gulf of  Mexico on Tuesday, spurring evacuations along the U.S. coast  and shutting down some oil production after ripping off roofs  and downing trees and power lines when it grazed western Cuba.