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After slowly climbing up for two weeks, the number of offshore rigs in the U.S. stopped its upward movement and remained flat at 13 last week, based on Baker Hughes’ weekly rig count report from last Friday.
Norwegian oil and gas company Aker BP has started drilling operations on its Mugnetind exploration well located offshore Norway, using a Maersk Drilling-owned jack-up rig.
Once the fire is out we'll go out and determine the cause of the fire. >> eric: casey stiegel live with the details. any indication what may have caused this explosion? >> we have a little better idea. officials believe there were some type of cleaning chemicals on the surface of that massive offshore rig that somehow ignited and caught fire. but now that the sun is up the investigators are back out on the scene this morning to get a better idea of what happened collecting evidence and looking for clues. the rig out in the lake north of new orleans. it is used for storing oil until it is ready...
Fighter jets to the military. deciding it wouldn't be appropriate to move forward with the delivery given everything going on with egypt right now. democratically elected mohamed morsi was thrown out of office after violent protests. there is concern among allies in that region the move will be seen as indirect support for morsi's party, the muslim brotherhood and concern there will be more violence. breaking news this time from the gulf coast where a drilling rig is on fire. the well partially collapsed tod today. it caught fire following a blowout that led to the evacuation of 44 workers. ...
Lieberman is an independent who often votes with democrats and he said moments ago he also want dead know what rules govern off duty agents on assignment, and that was the status of a dozen secret service agents and officers who met with prostitutes ahead of president obama's visit this month. six have been ousted and another dozen have also in the military have been implicated. >> former b.p. worker now faces the first criminal charges, the oil spill in the gulf of mexico two years ago. you will recall the explosion at the offshore rig killed 11 people, injured more than a dozen others and un...