"The administration put together a group of experts to review safety recommendations for offshore oil and gas exploration, " Barrasso said.

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Based in Houston, Forum Energy makes products and parts used in land-based and offshore oil-and-gas exploration and development.

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Oil and gas companies think it will facilitate offshore exploration and drilling.

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Six Greenpeace activists have boarded a Russian offshore oil rig in protest over gas and oil exploration in the Arctic, the group says.

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After going public in 2005, the company today contracts offshore rigs and inland barges for oil and natural gas exploration focused in the Gulf of Mexico.

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The offshore drilling debate boils down to an argument over leasing government waters for oil and natural gas exploration and production.

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