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• Husky partially evacuates White Rose ship
  Husky Energy sent 33 offshore workers ashore Sunday because of a buildup of sour gas in a pair of storage tanks aboard White Rose production ...
• Setting new standards
  Researchers in St. John’s are in their fourth and final phase of testing how immersion suits perform in cold water, wind and waves.Tuesday was ...
• SAR chopper hangar delayed
  Construction of a new search and rescue facility at St. John’s airport for the offshore oil industry won’t meet a year-end deadline.The dedicated ...
• Setting a new course
  Inquiry commissioner Robert Wells calls it his most important recommendation — a separate, independent agency to oversee all safety issues in the ...
• The trouble with Seamus
  A gap no wider than a human hair is allowing natural gas to migrate through a cement barrier that was supposed to seal Nalcor Energy’s first ...
• The Chinese connection
  For Altius Minerals, the road to developing iron ore projects in western Labrador leads to China. Altius president and CEO Brian Dalton told ...
• Legal wrangling
  Cougar Helicopters can drop a helicopter parts company from its $27-million lawsuit against Sikorsky Aircraft, a Newfoundland and Labrador ...
• White Rose restarts
  The White Rose oilfield resumed production early Friday morning — wrapping up a 16-day shutdown for scheduled maintenance.It will take ...
• Companies target west coast
  Shoal Point Energy and Canadian Imperial Venture Corp. (CIVC) have an oil target on the province’s west coast, a drill rig en route and a tight ...
• Voisey's Bay impasse continues as deadline looms
  A last-ditch effort aimed at ending the Voisey’s Bay strike broke down in less than an hour Wednesday morning. It mirrored almost two years of ...
• Chopper lawsuit gets technical
  Lawyers for Cougar Helicopters and Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. were in court Monday to debate a procedural issue in Cougar’s $27-million lawsuit ...
• Smallwood returns today
  Marine Atlantic expects the ferry Joseph and Clara Smallwood to resume sailing the Cabot Strait today. Friday, the ferry was en route to ...
• No Party Bus for Nova Scotia
  The Party Bus ran into an open-liquor charge in Newfoundland, but it ran into even bigger problems in Nova Scotia — it was refused a licence to ...
• Voisey’s Bay union unbowed
  The union for striking Voisey’s Bay workers will ask Premier Danny Williams to change binding arbitration rules — allowing an arbitrator to ...
• Contract wars
  Fourteen months after Voisey’s Bay workers hit the picket lines, the union and the company appear no further ahead in settling the contract ...
• Turbulent times ahead
  The global energy industry is poised for the perfect storm — but the Calgary university professor who is forecasting the turbulence says this ...
• Voisey’s Bay talks off, again
  Talks to end the 14-month-old Voisey’s Bay strike ended Sunday the same way every other round of talks have stalled — with the company ...
• Hibernia reconfiguring lifeboats
  The Hibernia consortium is looking for an exemption from regulations that require the production platform to have twice as many lifeboat seats as ...
• The next big play
  Kevin Keats is taking one financial analyst’s words to heart — the province is “one hill away” from an area play.It’s the kind of optimism ...
• Deal replaces Hebron work
  Construction of $20 million worth of barges built in the province will replace the value of the Hebron pre-drilling work that was cancelled last ...
• Riding out the storm
  Husky Energy says the White Rose production ship rode through the storm as expected with half its usual crew of 90 people.“It was within our ...
• East-end condos revived
  Developers will resubmit a proposal for a 24-unit condominium building in the east end of St. John’s — once the city realigns a portion of New ...
• Cougar helicopter in Greenland hitches boat ride ashore
  An S-92 helicopter operated by Cougar Helicopters in Greenland was pulled from service last week following a problem with an over-inflated fuel ...
• Union lambastes offshore board
  The lawyer for unionized offshore workers has levelled a barrage of criticism at the board that regulates the province’s oil ...
• Wells inquiry resumes this week
  Inquiry commissioner Robert Wells expects to have his report done by the end of this month — but he won’t be ready to submit it by the Sept. 30 ...
• Hebron topsides contract awarded
  WorleyParsons Canada has landed the contract to design and build the steel topsides modules for the multibillion-dollar Hebron production ...
• Chevron wraps up deepwater well
  The drillship Stena Carron plugged and abandoned the well 106 days after spudding it May 10.“We drilled the well safely and without any lost-time ...
• Pilots’ families push for helmets
  Kate O’Brien, lawyer for the families of the Cougar Flight 491 pilots, made that case in a July 30 submission to the Wells inquiry into offshore ...
• Cougar suing Sikorsky
  Also named as defendants in the lawsuit are Helicopter Support Inc., which is Sikorsky’s parts and repair subsidiary, and Transport Canada.The ...
• Rising from the ashes
  Andrew Corbett was working in his downtown St. John’s shop last August when he heard the distinctive sound of fire engine sirens at about 5 ...