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Police on Saturday arrested 18 Greenpeace activists who climbed aboard an oil rig off Greenland's coast to protest deepwater drilling in the Arctic.

Rescuers say more than 60 people have been evacuated from an oil platform off Norway's west coast after operator Statoil received reports of a gas leak.

A Thai-owned oil rig operator could be banned from Australian waters after a government report on Wednesday blamed it and a lax regulator for Australia's worst ever oil spill that stained the coasts of Indonesia and East Timor last year.

BP said it will set up a global safety division and make management changes as it seeks to absorb lessons from the explosion of a oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico this year.

With BP shares plunging since the oil rig accident, many are speculating about the company’s options.

Hey everyone,

I can only think of natural resource companies like BHP, Rio-Tinto, Chevron, etc.

what is a good multinational company to work for that allows you the opportunity to work in different parts of the world?
example is having to be posted to some remote place for project work or support like an Oil Rig, Antartica or Dessert.

I am doing Desktop support so its pretty general and am currently finishing of my M.C.S.E. and some other qualifications.

Are there also any good multinational I.T. recruitment firms?

As the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig burned around him, Chris Pleasant hesitated, waiting for approval from his superiors before activating the emergency disconnect system that was supposed to slam the oil well shut at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

Australia launched an investigation Thursday into an oil rig leak that dumped thousands of barrels of fuel into the Timor Sea over more than two months before being plugged this week.