Article: Brent Spar may be sunk.(Royal Dutch/Shell Group may sind offshore oil storage buoy in North Sea)(Briefs)

Article: Still sparring. (controversy between Greenpeace and Royal ...
The Economist (US);  July 20, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Greenpeace clashed in the Atlantic, and Brent Spar, the oil platform they were fighting ... for oil companies operating in the North Sea. For there is a queue of giant platforms ... better choice (as Shell was over the Brent Spar), should they pursue it in the ...

Article: Greenpeace admits goof on Brent Spar, still opposes ...
The Oil Daily;  September 6, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... retreat on its plans to dispose of its Brent Spar platform at sea, experienced a reversal ... Ocean -- admitted its estimate that Brent Spar contains 5,000 tons, or about 36 ... showed a particular quantity of oil on the Brent Spar," Melchett wrote. "That was wrong ...

Article: Brent Spar Affair: Two days that sealed fate of ...
The Independent - London;  June 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... At the end of April Greenpeace boarded the Brent Spar in the North Sea. It was the start of an escalating, semi-chaotic campaign which followed the Brent Spar across the North Sea into the Atlantic with ships and helicopters ...

Article: Two days that sealed fate of redundant rig : THE BRENT ...
The Independent - London;  June 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... At the end of April Greenpeace boarded the Brent Spar in the North Sea. It was the start of an escalating, semi-chaotic campaign which followed the Brent Spar across the North Sea into the Atlantic with ships and helicopters ...

Article: Brent Spar bid by yard.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  February 14, 1997 ;     282 words ... ... yard is in the running to scrap the controversial Brent Spar oil platform. BARMAC, of Nigg, Easter Ross ... job since owners Shell ditched plans to dump the Brent Spar in the North Sea two years ago. The platform has been moored in ...

Article: Sea of trouble engulfs Shell/Exxon's plan to dump Brent ...
The Oil Daily;  June 20, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... disposal of the North Sea Brent Spar storage and loading ... protest because the Brent Spar disposal would ... precedent for further North Sea disposals. There ... Scotland -- from its North Sea location. Greenpeace ... storage tanks on the Brent ...

Article: Brent Spar row opens door to U.S. leaders in rig ...
The Oil Daily;  June 30, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... platforms in the North Sea can learn from U ... plans to sink its Brent Spar storage and loading ... Mexico] to the North Sea and explain it to ... permission to park the Brent Spar -- now under tow in the North Sea -- in Erfjord in ...