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	<description>The Internet Magazine For Health &#038; Safety, Oil &#038; Gas, Engineering &#038; Environmental Experts</description>
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		<title>High Oil Prices Help Industry Absorb Rising Exploration Costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For an industry already grappling with labour shortages and hikes in raw material prices, the surge in the cost of oil rigs in recent years is a further, unwelcome complication.
Rig costs have been going up by as much as 430 per cent in some cases, and it is not hard to see why.
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		<link>http://hsee.co.uk/high-oil-prices-help-industry-absorb-rising-exploration-costs/</link>
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		<title>Suit Seeks To Block Oil Search Off Alaska</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A coalition of environmental organizations and Inupiaq native groups filed suit in federal court in Anchorage on Thursday to force the Interior Department to do a new analysis of the environmental consequences of oil and gas exploration in the Chukchi Sea, off northwestern Alaska.
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		<link>http://hsee.co.uk/suit-seeks-to-block-oil-search-off-alaska/</link>
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		<title>BP Acknowledges Safety Failings After Latest Texas City Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BP admitted last night that it had fallen short of safety standards after the death of another worker at its Texas City refinery this week. William Joe Garcia, an operations supervisor with 32 years’ experience, died on Monday in the third fatality at the refinery since a massive blast nearly three years ago claimed 15 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hsee.co.uk/bp-acknowledges-safety-failings-after-latest-texas-city-death/</link>
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		<title>Oil Stocks: Best Picks For 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not too late for investors to get in on the oil boom in 2008, analysts say, even with the near 30 percent runup in oil company stocks last year.
From companies that pull oil out of the ground, to the ones that turn it into gasoline, to the specialists that keep the wells flowing, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hsee.co.uk/oil-stocks-best-picks-for-2008/</link>
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		<title>OHS Changes Made To Petroleum And Gas Legislation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Changes to Queensland&#8217;s petroleum and gas legislation have fine-tuned several important safety and health issues for the industry and those working in it, according to an announcement from Mines and Energy Minister Geoff Wilson.
Wilson says improved safety on drilling rig sites was a key part of legislative changes under the Mining and Other Legislation Amendment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hsee.co.uk/ohs-changes-made-to-petroleum-and-gas-legislation/</link>
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		<title>Environmental Groups File Suit Against Shell Oil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sierra Club and Environment Texas filed a lawsuit Monday in federal district court against Houston-based Shell Oil Co. and several affiliates alleging the company is violating federal air quality standards.
The lawsuit is the first case in Texas in which citizen groups have tried to stop illegal air emissions arising from so-called &#8220;upset&#8221; events &#8212; unpermitted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMEC Paragon Recognized For Engineering Excellence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, today announced that Houston-based subsidiary AMEC Paragon recently received the AVEVA &#8220;Engineering Excellence to the Extreme&#8221; award for its Integrated Project Execution (IPE), a work process that has enabled measurement and delivery of outstanding time and cost savings across multiple projects.
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		<link>http://hsee.co.uk/amec-paragon-recognized-for-engineering-excellence/</link>
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		<title>400 Vietnamese Workers Evacuated From Oil Rig After Radioactive Device Goes Missing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than 400 Vietnamese workers were evacuated from an oil rig after a radioactive device was lost, officials and state media said Sunday.Nearly 200 panicked workers were tested for exposure at a local hospital after dozens complained of dizziness and problems breathing, said Tran Van Bay, director of Le Loi Hospital.
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		<link>http://hsee.co.uk/400-vietnamese-workers-evacuated-from-oil-rig-after-radioactive-device-goes-missing/</link>
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		<title>Scots &#8216;Should Handle&#8217; Oil Safety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First Minister Alex Salmond has said the Scottish Government should handle North Sea offshore safety. He was speaking as an investigation got under way into the cause of a major fire that broke out on a platform.
More than 100 workers were evacuated from the Thistle Alpha platform after Sunday&#8217;s fire but no-one was hurt.
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		<link>http://hsee.co.uk/scots-should-handle-oil-safety/</link>
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		<title>Environmental Action Begins On Home Shores</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE recent talks in Bali to map out a successor to the Kyoto Treaty have shown once again that environmental issues are now at the top of the political and news agendas.
But protecting our environment is not just a matter for international concern, because we need action at local and national levels, too, in order [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hsee.co.uk/environmental-action-begins-on-home-shores/</link>
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