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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

02/28/2012: Actress Lucy Lawless arrested in oil-ship protest

02/24/2012: Oil bunkering in Nigeria: 7% of Nigeria’s crude oil stolen daily

02/16/2012: Protestors play dodge ball at rally against El Paso Corp.

02/16/2012: DONG inaugurates world’s largest wind farm

02/09/2012: Russian drillers reach ancient Antarctic lake

02/09/2012: US sets vote on first nuclear reactor since 1978

02/06/2012: Algae Producer Aquaviridis and OriginOil partner to develop dry-land aquaculture

02/02/2012: No energy industry backing for the word 'fracking'

01/26/2012: Muppets diss Fox News in response to accusations of being anti-oil

01/26/2012: Texas oil and gas executive pleads guilty to fraud

01/17/2012: Watch out cows -- The Siberian Shelf makes a lot of methane, too

01/15/2012: Local church goes green

01/12/2012: Little oil seen after ship splits in New Zealand

01/10/2012: Federal Reptile dysfunction delayed

01/04/2012: Facebook, Greenpeace call truce over clean energy feud

12/18/2011: The Gas Company pioneering renewable natural gas in Hawaii

12/16/2011: Germany looks to green scientists

12/12/2011: Canada abandons Kyoto protocol

12/08/2011: Russian troops attack pirates, free oil tanker hostages

12/06/2011: Vermont maple syrup producers get federal energy efficiency grants

12/03/2011: New webcast series a first for O&G industry professionals

12/02/2011: Oldest running car fetches $4.62 million

11/28/2011: 49 penguins released after NZ oil spill

11/24/2011: Don’t Mess with Texas green energy

11/18/2011: 13-year-old designs efficient solar array inspired by Oak trees

11/17/2011: Delaware chemical site eyed for renewable energy

11/11/2011: Petroleum Minister refutes allegation of 20 million Euro mansion in Austria

11/10/2011: Stephen King offers heating oil help for Mainers

11/07/2011: First US commercial passenger flight to use green jet fuel takes off

11/04/2011: Feds assess sites for renewable energy potential

10/27/2011: Honeywell’s UOP, Petrochina produce green jet fuel for China’s first biofuel flight

10/27/2011: Rainforest Action Network calls Bank of America leading coal financier

10/24/2011: Oil firm agrees to plead guilty in ND bird deaths

10/21/2011: Philippine firm to spend €1 billion for green energy network

10/14/2011: Group requests DOE halt action against fireplaces, gas log sets

10/13/2011: Tour of jazz and renewable energy

10/10/2011: Oil workers describe floating for days in Gulf

10/06/2011: Company to build renewables testing ‘ghost town’ in NM

10/03/2011: Brightsource Energy delivers world’s largest solar-to-steam facility for EOR

09/29/2011: Lawmakers probe how alternative energy group got $528 million loan

09/26/2011: Turkish ship begins oil exploration off Cyprus

09/23/2011: Green Awards highlight industry’s most sustainable

09/19/2011: Mercedes supercar built from 10,000 pieces of scrap metal

09/15/2011: Message in bottle found during Michigan oil cleanup

09/11/2011: Police bust major Chinese gutter oil network

09/08/2011: College football gets its green game on

09/06/2011: US Presidential candidate considers Everglades drilling

09/02/2011: Greenpeace protesters block OGX offices in Brazil

08/25/2011: Former Yukos oil boss writes columns from prison

08/25/2011: Actress Daryl Hannah, 73 citizens arrested at White House oil pipeline protest