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MALAYSIA — Teacher Matziyah Mohd Ladar, 39, of Kangar, Perlis, today received RM25,603 (about US$7,060) in compensation following the drowning of her husband, Aladi Hasan, during a search-and-rescue operation (SAR) in the Kenyir Lake on June 16.

A cheque for the amount was presented to her by Fire & Rescue Department deputy director-general Datuk Wan Mohd Nor Ibrahim here.

The department had also presented an immediate donation of RM10,000 to the family earlier.

Wan Mohd Nor said the department strived to ensure that its personnel adhered to all international procedures to avoid risks in any SAR operation.

“We will not compromise on this issue. We follow the international standards,” he told reporters.

He said Aladi’s case, however, was clearly an accident.

Aladi, 41, a diver with the Terengganu Fire & Rescue Department diving squad, drowned in the operation to find a missing researcher in the lake.

He is survived Matziyah and their three children.

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By Steve Thompson, The Dallas Morning News

The death of a 27-year-old man who drowned while diving for golf balls Wednesday is being investigated as an industrial accident, authorities say.

Christopher Logan of Lewisville was hired to retrieve golf balls from the water traps around the Las Colinas Country Club golf course, Irving police say. Read the rest of this entry »

The Brazilian state-controlled Petrobras has said this week that production from the massive oil fields deep below the ocean floor off Brazil’s Atlantic coast was viable at $40 a barrel for benchmark Brent crude. The “pre-salt” reserves, so called because they are located under a thick layer of salt, can be extracted at a cost of less than $40 per barrel, Petrobras finance chief Almir Barbassa told reporters in Sao Paulo.

Brent, used as the benchmark for crude from the pre-salt layer, was trading today above $69 per barrel. “But we still have a lot to improve in terms of production and that is something we are working hard at. Our engineers are dedicated to developing a production method that is more adequate for the pre-salt zone,” the Petrobras executive said. Read the rest of this entry »

by Perry Williams, Senior Energy Writer, MEED

South Korean engineering, procurement and construction contractors are winning contracts based on their low fees, flexibility and willingness to take on risky, fixed-price projects.

Any international contractor questioning whether the global recession has scared off South Korean contractors from the region will have received an emphatic “no” in the past few months. Read the rest of this entry »

An extra 25 GW of offshore wind energy could be accommodated around the UK’s shores, in addition to the 8 GW already built or planned, Energy Minister Lord Hunt announced on Wednesday. The findings, a result of the Government’s Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) will enable the Crown Estate to proceed with the third round of leasing in UK’s waters for offshore wind farms.

Offshore wind has the potential to provide the UK with up to 70 000 new jobs and £8bn in annual revenues. The new licensing regime for the cables to connect offshore wind farms to the mainland also began on Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »

On Thursday, Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua granted amnesty to the militants operating in the Niger Delta region, giving them a period of 60 days to accept it.

The announcement was the fulfilment of the Federal Government’s pledge to grant pardon to militants in the oil-rich region. Read the rest of this entry »

StatoilHydro says the ramp-up is continuing apace for the Norwegian energy heavweight and its suppliers off the Sogne region of western Norway, with major subsea operations on both Gjøa and Vega – activities intended to prepare the two North Sea fields to start production next year.

“We have 20 units at work and are due to perform some 1,000 vessel days,” said Bjørn Midttun, head of subsea installations, pipelines and marine operations on Gjøa, talking about the impending summer work. Read the rest of this entry »

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By Joe Leahy and Varun Sood

BOMBAY — India’s cabinet is trying to resolve a dispute over whether to grant all operators in the oil and gas industry a seven-year tax holiday in an attempt to get its exploration industry off the ground again.

The finance ministry last year excluded natural gas from the tax holiday offered to other exploration companies in a step that affected Reliance Industries, controlled by billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani, which is developing the country’s biggest gas discovery, the KG Basin. Read the rest of this entry »

by Jennifer Larson, Forest Lake Times

Kevin Peters’ first commercial diving job of retrieving cars that almost always plunged through the frozen, murky waters in Minnesota during the middle of the night is a far cry from what he’s doing now.

Today, the Forest Lake native is co-owner of Florida-based Miami Divers, a stand-alone company part of a consortium with Subsea Solutions Alliance. His brother, Paul, a 1986 graduate of Forest Lake High School, has a stake in the business. Read the rest of this entry »