BP says to keep about half Alaska field online
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BP  on Friday said it will  keep the western half of its Prudhoe Bay oil field online,  enabling the company to get the field up to half its prior  output despite pipeline corrosion.
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Two pension funds plan to ask an Alaska state court on Friday to freeze more than $140 million in retirement pay and other compensation for outgoing BP Plc  CEO John Browne, saying it is excessive and undeserved, an attorney for the investors said.
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BP Plc BP.L this week will conduct   safety tests and seek permission to restart part of the eastern   Prudhoe Bay oil field pipeline in Alaska that was shut due to   corrosion, the company told Congress on Tuesday.
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BP is to continue pumping oil from part of a giant field in Alaska, where a corroded pipeline sprang a leak last week, and aimed to raise output to 200,000 barrels per day.
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WASHINGTON -- BP executives received stern warnings Thursday from members of Congress outraged at the company's admittedly deficient maintenance of leak-prone Alaskan oil pipelines.
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Alaska's Aleutian Island chain, where a broken cargo ship has been leaking fuel oil for five days, needs the type of environmental protections that are given to better-known areas, a marine wildlife activist said on Monday.
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Energy company BP has reported weak crude production in the third quarter following the partial shutdown of Prudhoe Bay -- the largest oil field in the United States.
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Crude oil from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill still lingers in Alaska's Prince William Sound and nearby areas, with parts of the environment still far from recovery, several scientists said at a three-day conference.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - BP Plc. BP.L BP.N,   working to restore Prudhoe Bay crude oil output after a   two-month reduction, closed the adjacent Lisburne oil field in   Alaska on Thursday due to a methane gas leak, the company said   on Friday.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - BP Plc  has submitted a revised plan for preventing and responding to spills at the Prudhoe Bay oil field following pipeline corrosion problems and oil spills earlier this year, a state official said on Monday.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people have been  sent to an Aleutian island to try to clean up fuel oil  streaming from a wrecked cargo ship, but harsh weather has kept  most from the spill site, federal and stated officials said on  Saturday.
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Oil company BP has indefinitely shut down the nation's biggest oilfield after finding a pipeline leak, removing about 8 percent of U.S. oil production and stoking fears that already high gas prices will shoot up further.
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Russia's natural resources minister said Monday that foreign companies would be welcome to help develop offshore oil fields, the same day a senior U.S. diplomat expressed concern about the minister's earlier statement that foreign access to oil and gas deposits would be limited.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - BP unit BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc has agreed to pay $379 million to settle a dispute over outstanding corporate income taxes charged between the years 2000 and 2002, Gov. Sarah Palin said on Monday.
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US energy major ExxonMobil is holding up a deal to resolve a dispute over the massive Kashagan oil field being developed by a Western-led consortium, Kazakh Energy Minister Sauat Mynbayev said on Monday.
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan  - Kazakhstan's oil minister said Friday the government wants to buy British Gas's entire stake in a project to develop a giant oil field in the Caspian Sea, according to a news report.
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PRUDHOE BAY, Alaska, Aug. 31 -- BP officials are increasingly optimistic that Prudhoe Bay oil production may return to normal levels earlier than they initially expected. A portion of the pipeline idled by corrosion concerns may be useable at least temporarily, they said, while other questionable...