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Nabors' labor
18-Nov-01
Edition/Page:Final/E1: During Alaska's oil boom in 1981, Dan Collie flew from the North Slope to Anchorage and paid cash for a new $10,000 van..... Collie was one of thousands making big money in the oil fields. As a driller on an oil rig, he...

Nabors roughnecks plan work stoppage
30-Mar-02
Edition/Page:Final/H1: Some union oil workers upset with pay and benefits are plotting a major protest against Nabors Alaska Drilling Inc., the likes of which hasn't been seen since Nabors employees went on strike in 1979..... On Friday at th...

State probes Nabors safety allegations
11-Apr-02
Edition/Page:Final/E1: State safety regulators are investigating the state's largest oil drilling company after a union alleged that Nabors Alaska Drilling Inc. is misreporting worker injuries to the state..... The Alaska Occupational Safety...

UNION TRYING AGAIN
17-May-00
Edition/Page:Final/E1: Employees at oil drilling firm Nabors Alaska Inc. are moving toward a vote on whether to join a union..... Saying their pay is low compared with other jobs on the North Slope, some Nabors workers are passing out pamphlet...

Nabors crews threaten strike
27-Mar-02
Edition/Page:Final/E1: Frustrated with deteriorating wages and benefits, union workers of Nabors Alaska Drilling Inc. are threatening to strike as early as this weekend, claiming the company has resisted negotiations..... The tension among wor...

Long-fought union vote passes at Nabors Alaska Inc.
11-Oct-00
Edition/Page:Final/E1: Among eligible voters, 146 voted to join the AFL-CIO and 122 voted against. Eleven questioned ballots are too few to affect the outcome, said Norm Hayashi, an officer with the National Labor Relations Board in Anchorage....

Saw may have sparked fire on platform
25-Apr-02
Edition/Page:Final/E1: A federal safety agency and two oil companies are investigating whether a power saw caused a stream of natural gas to ignite on a Cook Inlet oil platform Saturday and injure four workers..... Officials at Nabors Alaska D...

DRILLING FIRMS EXPAND
31-Jan-98
Edition/Page:Final/D8: Two oil-well drilling companies are expanding in Alaska because of increased development at North Slope oil fields..... Pool Arctic Alaska is upgrading one drilling rig, planning to upgrade another and said it will build a third r...

Earnings
01-Aug-01
Edition/Page:Final/E3: NABORS INDUSTRIES INC.: The global oil-drilling firm and the largest drilling company in Alaska, reported second-quarter profits of $104 million on revenue of $585 million. Profits were 101 percent higher than during the...

INSIDE ALASKA BUSINESS
25-Nov-99
Edition/Page:Final/F1: NABORS BUYS POOL ENERGY.... Nabors Industries Inc. said Wednesday it had completed its purchase of rival global oil driller Pool Energy Services Inc. The $730 million deal combines two of the larger drilling companies wo...

Mud spill cleanup nearly complete
21-Aug-01
Edition/Page:Final/E4: Workers have cleaned up most of the drilling mud spilled Sunday on the North Slope..... At 8 a.m. Sunday, workers with Nabors Alaska Drilling Inc. discovered used drilling muds and rock cuttings spilling near a drilling...

Resources In Brief
27-Jan-01
Edition/Page:Final/D4: NABORS INDUSTRIES INC..... Drilling profits soar in fourth quarter.... Nabors Industries Inc., a global oil-drilling firm with operations in Alaska, reported fourth-quarter profits of $54.9 million on revenue of $435 mil...
 

Inside Alaska Business
29-Jan-02
Edition/Page:Final/F1: MEETING.... Nabors chief speaks to Alliance.... The Alliance will meet at 7 a.m. Thursday at the Petroleum Club of Anchorage, 3301 C St. Jim Denny, president, Nabors Alaska Drilling, will present "Nabors Neighborhood." R...

Alaska poised for prosperity
16-Feb-01
Edition/Page:Final/A1: For Nabors Industries, this feels like boom times..... Last year, revenue more than doubled. The company's stock price has tripled. In the past 20 months, the number of employees in Alaska has septupled..... Yup....

Platform Likely Crippled Until May
23-Apr-02
Edition/Page:Final/E1: Federal safety regulators are investigating what caused Saturday's fire on a Cook Inlet oil platform that injured four workers and has shut down one-fifth of the inlet's oil production..... As investigators began probi...

Rig fire injures 2 on Slope
19-Jul-01
Edition/Page:Final/B1: A North Slope oil rig caught fire Tuesday night, injuring two workers and sending thick gray smoke billowing into the sky over Prudhoe Bay, said a spokesman for BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc..... The two Nabors Alaska Dril...

COOK INLET RIG MISHAP INJURES PAIR
11-Sep-97
Edition/Page:Final/D1: Two Soldotna men were hospitalized Wednesday after a midmorning accident on a Cook Inlet offshore oil and gas platform..... Neither Unocal Corp., operator of the Granite Point platform, nor Nabors Alaska Drilling Inc., which emplo...

EYES ON THE PRIZE
28-Aug-00
Edition/Page:Final/E1: Think "venture capital" and it ain't conjuring up images of a wind-blasted arctic plain. This is the North Slope. There's little silicon and no valley for almost 100 miles..... Despite its definite lack of new-economy...

Inside Alaska Business
21-Nov-00
Edition/Page:Final/D1: Parker sells last land rig.... Parker Drilling Co. said Monday that it sold its last U.S. land oil rig to Nabors Alaska Drilling Co. for $20 million. Parker Drilling said it will use the proceeds in the Gulf of Mexico an...

Drilling rig heading out
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21-Oct-00
Edition/Page:Final/D1: Longshoremen working with North Star Terminal and Stevedore Co. at Anderson Dock on Friday load the crown section of an oil drilling rig onto a supply boat headed to Redoubt Shoal in Cook Inlet. The Nabors Alaska Drillin...

ARCO, BP INCREASE BUDGETS
29-Jan-00
Edition/Page:Final/D6: Arco Alaska Inc. and BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. said Friday they plan to spend $1.08 billion on developing the North Slope this year..... About half of the money -- and it's a big budget by Slope standards -- will go...

NO GAIN IN OIL DRILLING
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27-Jul-00
Edition/Page:Final/E1: Oil prices are high, but the number of drilling rigs working on the North Slope remains near historic averages..... Eight rotary drilling rigs are active in Alaska's northern oil fields, officials with BP Exploration (A...

OIL PRICES RISE, BUT NOT DRILLING
29-Sep-99
Edition/Page:Final/A1: Oil prices have hit the highest level in almost three years, but Alaska's big oil companies are moving slowly to pick up drilling and exploration activity on the North Slope..... BP Amoco announced this week that it wil...

FRESH OIL, FAMILIAR GROUND
14-Dec-97
Edition/Page:Final/A1: Fifty-two-year-old Dearl Gladden is a toothpick-chewing point man in the effort to reverse what was once regarded as the inexorable decline of Alaska's North Slope oil fields..... As superintendent of the Parker Drilling Rig. No....

HEARD ON THE STREET
26-Jun-97
Edition/Page:Final/C1: Badami drilling team named.... BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. announced Wednesday that it has selected five companies to provide drilling services for development of its Badami oil field: Nabors Alaska Drilling Inc., Dowell-Schlumbe...

BP dials down hunt for oil in Alaska
20-Nov-01
Edition/Page:Final/A1: BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. is curtailing its search for new oil in the state..... The Anchorage exploration arm of the state's second-largest oil producer is being downsized and moved to Houston, Texas. Thirty to 35 e...