Shell ordered to suspend Arctic offshore drilling
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A U.S. federal appeals court  has ordered Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) to suspend oil  exploration operations in the Beaufort Sea off the north coast  of Alaska pending a legal challenge being brought by  environmental activists and Alaska native groups.
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An operation is under way to evacuate an oil rig off Aberdeen in the North Sea, following a security alert.
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MOSCOW -- Russian regulators could cancel Total SA's license to extract oil in an Arctic region, a government ministry said Wednesday, a move that comes just days after a Shell project led by Shell had a key permit pulled.
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The board of Russia&#39;s embattled oil giant Yukos will halt crude supplies to Baltic refinery Mazeikiu Nafta until the end of the year, the Interfax agency reported Monday - just hours after Yukos confirmed a similar move involving a Chinese company.
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Royal Dutch Shell has resumed production of 150,000 barrels per day of crude oil which was closed due to community unrest in the country&#39;s volatile oil-rich south, a company spokesman said Tuesday.
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Yukos, the Russian oil giant, could be forced to halt production because of a new court order, the company says.
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Royal Dutch Shell plans to appeal against a shutdown order imposed on its refinery in Buenos Aires.
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The government ordered striking oil workers back on the job Monday night and the Norwegian Shipowners Association withdrew its threat to lock out more oil and gas rig workers, preventing any possible cutbacks in the country's oil production.
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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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WASHINGTON -- A $120 million fine levied on Royal Dutch/Shell Group by the Securities and Exchange Commission resolves the company's part in the SEC inquiry into the overstatement of oil and gas reserves, but the role of individuals is still under investigation, regulators said yesterday..
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HOUSTON -- The Securities and Exchange Commission has decided to take no action against the former Royal Dutch Shell PLC chief executive over the 2004 oil reserves overbooking scandal, his lawyer said yesterday.
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The Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell, has withdrawn staff from oil facilities in Nigeria&#39;s troubled Niger Delta. The evacuation of 254 non-essential staff follows a new wave of increased violence in the region.
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Shell Canada outlined $4 billion worth of expansions and de-bottlenecking at its Athabasca Oil Sands Project yesterday. The work will eventually bring the project to 500,000 barrels per day in production.
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HOUSTON -- A US bankruptcy judge has issued a temporary restraining order to halt the planned auction of Russian oil company Yukos&#39; main oil-producing subsidiary, Yuganskneftegaz, Reuters reports.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - A federal judge issued a   preliminary ruling on Thursday that temporarily blocks the U.S.   administration's plan to allow oil development in the sensitive   wetlands near vast Teshekpuk Lake in Arctic Alaska.
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The U.S. government will announce on  Tuesday that it is suspending indefinitely a key environmental  review on drilling for natural gas in a scenic area in Montana,  which will halt drilling at least temporarily, the Bureau of  Land Management said on Monday.
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The board of Russia's embattled oil giant Yukos will halt crude supplies to Baltic refinery Mazeikiu Nafta until the end of the year, the Interfax agency reported Monday &#151; just hours after Yukos confirmed a similar move involving a Chinese company.