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• Drilling comes up dry
  ConocoPhillips' first exploration well in Newfoundland waters came up dry. Work wrapped up last week on the well dubbed East Wolverine G-37, ...
• Port of St. John's weathers storm
  The St. John's Port Authority says the city's 500-year-old port continues to be a crucial economic engine for the province - contributing $255 ...
• Deepwater drill ship heading to Orphan Basin
  ConocoPhillips wrapped up work this week at its first exploration well in Newfoundland waters. In the coming days, it will hand over the drill ...
• Big workers, small lifeboats
  People are getting bigger and it's affecting everything from the size of airplane seats to how many offshore workers can fit into a lifeboat. ...
• Bay Bulls boatbuilder lands barge contract
  C&W Industrial Fabrication has landed a one-year, $2.5-million contract from the federal government to build 15 barges at its Bay Bulls yard. ...
• N.L. Hydro seeks rate hike due to rising oil prices
  The price of electricity could increase by as much as two per cent for the average residential customer starting July 1. Newfoundland and ...
• The times they are a-changin' for community groups
  A year ago, Harbour Breton's first Internet cafe opened its doors at the site of a former fishing premises. For volunteer groups in the south ...
• Convenience stores finding it tough
  It's not easy running a convenience store these days. The Atlantic Convenience Store Association says a variety of pressures are squeezing the ...
• A short-range mountain of oil production
  Thirteen years of oil production off Newfoundland and Labrador resembles a small mountain range of peaks and valleys when plotted on a chart. ...
• Scotiabank warns of over-regulation of industry
  Scotiabank CEO Rick Waugh told shareholders the bank's arrival in Newfoundland in 1894 was one of its first forays into international banking. ...
• Engineers investigating condo collapse
  Structural engineers are investigating why a St. John's condo development partially collapsed Friday. Craig Foley, vice-president of Gibraltar ...
• Ottawa collects millions in Hibernia interest
  An 8.5 per cent equity stake in the Hibernia oilfield isn't the federal government's only source of petro dollars - it also collected $237.5 ...
• Contractors hired to build Long Harbour camp
  A Norwegian company that builds accommodations camps for the oil and gas industry landed a $52-million contract this month to build the ...
• Offshore R&D spending dispute continues
  A $65-million NAFTA dispute between the federal government and a pair of oil companies is slowly wending its way through international ...
• Ice that burns
  Methane gas hydrates are the next frontier in fossil-fuel energy - and they're believed to be in abundance off Canada's East Coast and in the ...
• The next frontier: buying Ottawa's Hibernia stake
  The province is still setting its sights on the federal government's equity stake in Hibernia, the largest producing oilfield off Newfoundland. ...
• Technip bidding on Hebron topsides
  It's been almost 13 years since Technip Canada Ltd. landed in St. John's, working steadily on all three offshore oilfields on the Grand Banks. ...
• Pair of gold mines for Baie Verte Peninsula
  St. John's-based Tenacity Gold Mining Co. wants to start up a pair of small gold mines on Baie Verte Peninsula this summer. The company expects ...
• Nalcor leapfrogs smaller partners in Hibernia South
  The final numbers are in, and Nalcor Energy's 10 per cent equity stake in Hibernia South has sent ripples through all the ownership interests ...
• Post-crash chronology
  Seventeen people - 15 offshore workers and two air crew - were killed March 12, 2009, when a Cougar Helicopters Sikorsky S-92A plunged into the ...
• 'It's hard to believe a year has passed'
  The one-year anniversary of the crash of Cougar Flight 491 is a sombre reminder for oilfield workers of the perils of flying to their jobs off ...
• Flight 491 remembered
  A special memorial service for the victims of Flight 491 will be held Friday in St. John's at the Basilica of St. John the Baptist. The ...
• Business as usual for Pennecon
  Pennecon says it's business as usual at Long Harbour where the company and its financially troubled partner, Atcon Construction Inc., are ...
• St. John's dockyard sold
  Newdock has a new owner - businessman Ches Penney has sold the 120-year-old ship repair yard in St. John's to businessman Paul Antle. Neither ...
• Newfoundland sets poor example in oil royalties for...
  A University of Calgary economist says Alberta has the least competitive oil and gas royalty system on the continent - but he wouldn't recommend ...
• It's a wrap, for now
  It was a day of last words at the Wells Inquiry as public hearings wrapped up Thursday. Randell Earle, the lawyer for unionized offshore ...
• A hard day's questioning
  Lawyers for the families of offshore workers who died March 12 and unionized offshore workers grilled the top safety official with the ...
• How is equipment tested?
  The lawyer for the families of the pilots of Cougar Helicopter Flight 491 have raised questions Wednesday about the safety equipment used by ...
• Hibernia South deal finalized
  The Hibernia South deal was officially signed Tuesday - giving the province a 10 per cent equity stake in the southern part of the oilfield for ...
• Still waiting for Cougar incident reports
  Randell Earle, the lawyer for unionized offshore workers at the Wells inquiry, is still waiting for documents about a handful of helicopter ...