Nigerian Militants Blow Up Oil Pipeline, Seize Six Foreign Seamen
The main militant group in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), claimed Monday that its fighters have blown up a major oil pipeline belonging to US firm Chevron and have seized six foreign seamen from an oil tanker…. more

SC company in NC fireworks explosion fined in 2001
The South Carolina company that employed four workers who died following an explosion as they unloaded fireworks in North Carolina was fined after a previous accident…. more

NY natural gas production down 8 percent in 2008
State officials say natural gas production in New York dipped in 2008 to just more than 50 billion cubic feet, down 8 percent from 2007 and 9 percent from the all-time high of just more than 55 billion cubic feet in 2006…. more

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