Protesters Disrupt Oil Trading at IPE
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Protesters with foghorns and whistles burst into the International Petroleum Exchange on Wednesday, disrupting oil trading in the world's second largest energy futures market on the day the Kyoto Protocol on global warming came into force.
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Brent crude futures on the London oil market reached USD50 a barrel today as Nigerian oil workers went on strike. Nigerian unions launched a four-day general strike to protest rising fuel prices, but oil shipments
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Crude oil futures rose to records in London and New York on concern offshore oil output from Norway, the world&#39;s third-biggest exporter, may be halted by a labor dispute.
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LAGOS, Nigeria  - Hundreds of protesters have besieged two oil platforms run by Royal Dutch/Shell Group Cos. and ChevronTexaco Corp. in Nigeria's southern oil region, shutting down production of 90,000 barrels of oil a day, company officials said Monday.
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International agitators join mass protest
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Crude oil production in the country has again been disrupted after militant youths, numbering about 200, stormed and forcefully shut down three flowstations in the swamp of Rivers State.
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STAVANGER, Norway  - The Norwegian Shipowners Association threatened on Monday to lock out more oil and gas rig workers, a move analysts said could result in a near shutdown of the third-largest petroleum exporter's production and drive world oil prices even higher.
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A revolt in the African state is threatening to disrupt the country&#39;s most important export. Christian Allen Purefoy reports from Lagos on the latest conflict driving up the price of crude.
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Hundreds of protesters clashed anew with security forces Monday ahead of this week's Group of Eight summit in Heiligendamm, and police said they briefly halted a demonstration in a nearby city and were pelted with stones.
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German police battled thousands of anti-globalisation protesters with water cannons to stop them getting close to the annual summit of the world&#39;s rich nations.
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Hundreds of protesters have besieged two oil platforms run by Royal Dutch/Shell Group Cos. and ChevronTexaco Corp. in Nigeria&#39;s southern oil region, shutting down production
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REDDELICH, Germany, June 5 -- The protesters, thousands of them, have crowded into a soggy tent city next to a potato field. They have spent months honing tactics and discussing strategy, all for a particular goal: to disrupt the summit of the world's biggest economic powers that begins Wednesday.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 10 (IPS) - Trade unions are coming together to protest EU  proposals on liberalising services in the internal market.
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London: Oil prices hovered below recent record highs today after intervention by the Norwegian government to end industrial strife in the worldâs third-biggest oil exporter took some heat out of feverish markets.
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Sporadic demonstrations have broken out throughout the Egyptian capital Cairo protesting the Egypt-Israel trade agreement as local economists defend it as the best economic choice for the country.
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: Oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell Group opened court action today to try to block a strike targeting oil exports in the world&#39;s No.
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A fish-seller sets himself alight while protesting over the handling of South Korea' s worst-ever oil spill.