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• Philippines' offshore oil field starts work
MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines announced Thursday that it had begun pumping crude oil from its first oil field development in 16 years — a relief to the country amid ongoing global financial woes. Officials estimate that the Galoc oil field ...
• N.J. vows to 'race to the sea' for wind power
Garden State Offshore Energy won a license to build a wind farm off New Jersey and says this illustration is indicative of what turbines would look like off the coast at various distances. The GSOE plan is to build turbines 16-20 miles offshore ...
• Dozens of migrants missing, feared drowned
Also, smugglers often force passengers to disembark offshore to avoid Yemeni coast guard patrols. "The way smugglers and traffickers treat people is absolutely outrageous and corresponds to one of the worst crimes that we can see in today's world ...
• Tropical storm hits Mexico's gulf coast
Mexico's state oil company said it had had evacuated 33 workers from four offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, closed six wells and shut down a natural gas processing plant in Veracruz state ahead of Marco's arrival. Mexico's Communications and ...
• Hurricane Norbert weakens as new storm forms
... has maximum sustained winds near 40 mph. But the storm is expected to strengthen. Odile is centered about 315 miles southeast of Puerto Angel. Forecasters expect Odile's center to head northwest, moving parallel to Mexico's Pacific coast but offshore