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Australia offshore rig leak pluggedSydney (UPI) Jan 14, 2009 PTTEP Australasia, the company behind an August oil spill considered one of Australia's worst environmental disasters, has plugged and secured the leaking well at its offshore Montara rig. "There are many steps to be undertaken before we can make full assessments of the status of the platform and development work can be resumed in 2010 to safely bring the Montara field into production," PTTEP's Australia Director Jose Martins said Wednesday, Upstream Online reports. The spill began Aug. 21 ... read more |
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Rio De Janeiro (UPI) Jan 14, 2009 Brazil is poised to capitalize on its experience with deepwater drilling for oil and gas and increase overseas operations of the state-managed Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. Two new Petrobras deals agreed in Portugal and Turkey emphasize the oil giant's expertise in drilling through the seabed to reach hydrocarbon deposits considered difficult by most prospecting companies. Brazil's ... more  
Washington (AFP) Jan 14, 2010Eastman Kodak Co. announced Thursday that it has filed lawsuits against Apple and Blackberry maker Research In Motion alleging they infringed Kodak digital imaging technology. The photography company said it had filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission claiming that camera-enabled iPhones and Blackberrys infringe a Kodak patent related to an image previewing method. ... more 
Quito (AFP) Jan 14, 2010A plan to leave major oil reserves in Ecuador's Amazon basin untouched in return for a major international donation was in jeopardy Thursday after Foreign Minister Fander Falconi resigned. Falconi spearheaded the 3.5-billion-dollar initiative until President Rafael Correa on Saturday called the payment conditions he was negotiating with the United Nations "outrageous." Correa even threat ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Jan 14, 2010In the picture against a blue background, a young girl in a white dress snuggles up against her father and looks demurely into the camera. Next to her, her slightly older brother and mother are dressed to the nines for the family photo. And underneath the family picture, a heart wrenching plea from the children's aunt in the United States to help find the family, who are among the countless people unaccounted for since Tuesday's powerful quake struck Haiti. "My sister, her husband and their two young kids... ... more 
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 14, 2010Rescuers raced against the clock Thursday to reach survivors among thousands of corpses in quake-hit Haiti, as planeloads of international aid swamped the main airport. Officials have warned the overall death toll may top 100,000 and say three million people could have been affected by Tuesday's powerful quake which ravaged the poorest nation in the Americas. The stench from rows of uncl ... more 
Brasilia (AFP) Jan 14, 2010Brazil is offering to build a cemetery in Haiti for the thousands killed in this week's quake, and promising it will respect the Voodoo beliefs of part of the Caribbean country's population, officials said Thursday. The proposal stemmed from the "great concern over the presence of abandoned bodies in the streets, which could create epidemics," the defense ministry said in a statement. ... more |
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