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WO Wire Bizarre News

WO Wire is collection of current headlines and select press releases from around the upstream, oil and gas industry.

Headlines

05/13/2013: 'Backyard Oil' a real-life 'Beverly Hillbillies' as DIY drillers turn into millionaires overnight

05/06/2013: How a sea of stars is formed

04/29/2013: Mark Zuckerberg funds pro-oil ad group

04/22/2013: New York town board drops ban on talking about fracking

04/15/2013: New solar process gets more out of natural gas

04/08/2013: Oil Sands Karaoke, the movie

04/01/2013: HGH infrared systems protects oil and gas rigs around the world

03/25/2013: Alabama mulls imposing tax on hybrid vehicles

03/21/2013: Oil workers urged to lose weight to create space on helicopters

03/21/2013: Airline uses cooking oil to fuel transatlantic flights between New York and Amsterdam

03/18/2013: Some off-shore oil rigs “incapacitated” by malware from pirated music and porn

03/15/2013: Anadarko Executive Chairman James Hackett to attend Harvard Divinity School

03/11/2013: North Dakota oil rush has an empty feeling

03/11/2013: Celebs, enviros arrested at WH pipeline protest

02/25/2013: Deepwater Horizon dispersant toxic to Florida Keys coral

02/04/2013: Oklahoma resident chains self to equipment in protest of Keystone pipeline

01/21/2013: Explorers seeking signs under Anatarctica

01/14/2013: Are UFOs hovering over the Eagle Ford shale

01/07/2013: Gas drilling, deer hunts meet on Texas oil fields

01/04/2013: Oilfield wives may get reality show

12/30/2012: NASA's Curiosity rover to drill into Mars rock

12/30/2012: Energy from people: dead or alive

12/24/2012: Pipeline protesters land in East Texas jail

12/21/2012: Max Planck scientists discover giant field ... 1,300 light years away

12/14/2012: Duo continues hunger strike to demand Valero’s exit from Keystone XL project

12/14/2012: Queen could benefit from UK shale gas boom

12/10/2012: Blue Sphere to implement first landfill gas-to-energy projects in Africa

12/03/2012: Fundraising to buy Wyoming oil and gas leases $3M short of goal

11/30/2012: Natural gas drillers target U.S. truck, bus market

11/26/2012: Colombian rebels release four oil workers

11/19/2012: Nearly 40 people block heavy machinery in protest of Keystone XL construction

11/16/2012: New Jersey Governor orders fuel rationing

11/13/2012: Alaska ice tested as possible new energy source

10/29/2012: Activists storm Russian oil rig

10/22/2012: Odebrecht Award for Sustainable Development names most innovative ideas for a sustainable future

10/22/2012: Thieves steal 900 gallons of gas in California

10/15/2012: Over 50 enter Tar Sands Blockade Tree Village to protest Keystone pipeline

10/15/2012: California gas prices set record

10/08/2012: Daryl Hannah arrested in TX for pipeline protest

10/01/2012: Hess toy truck now available for online purchase

10/01/2012: Keystone XL construction stopped as tar sands protester locks to underground capsule

09/24/2012: Eight people climb trees, start indefinite tree sit in protest of Keystone XL pipeline

09/17/2012: Lukoil stations post $9 gas prices in protest

09/14/2012: S. Texas rice farmers challenge TransCanada over Keystone XL pipeline

09/10/2012: Greenpeace responds to the start of Shell’s delayed Arctic drilling

09/10/2012: Teen opens mobile shower for grimy oil workers

09/04/2012: Algae biofuel facility begins operations

09/03/2012: Yoko Ono, son start anti-fracing coalition in New York

08/20/2012: HARC unveils 3D virtual drilling rig

08/13/2012: Coral found growing at record depth on Gulf of Mexico platforms