Oil company BP has indefinitely shut down the United State’s biggest oilfield after finding a pipeline leak, removing about 8% of US oil production and stoking fears that already high oil prices will shoot up further. Steve Marshall, president of BP Exploration Alaska, said on Sunday night that the eastern side of Prudhoe Bay would be shut down first, an operation anticipated to take 24 to 36 hours.
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/ 7 December 2004
It was a romance that really had legs: young Aurora, a female giant octopus, and her aging cephalopod suitor J-1 were thrown together for a blind date seven months ago by aquarists who hoped the two would mate. By all appearances, their fling was a success, but the resulting eggs seemed sterile — until the aquarists started draining Aurora’s tank.