However, industry body Oil and Gas UK, said it would have a damaging effect on investment and jobs.
Industry body Oil and Gas UK also indicated it was too early to say when full offshore helicopter operations could be reintroduced.
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Speaking after receiving industry body Oil and Gas UK's lifetime achievement award, he urged young people to get involved in the industry.
Industry body Oil and Gas UK said the keynote speaker would be Lord Cullen, who chaired the public inquiry into the disaster.
Industry body Oil and Gas UK said the report highlighted the need for more work to be done, despite recent investment in maintenance.
Earlier this week, industry body Oil and Gas UK released its own survey, which suggested confidence among companies operating in the North Sea was increasing.
Oil and Gas UK - the offshore industry body - said oil transported through the Brent pipeline system represented 10% of the UK's North Sea oil production.
With a body like an oil drum, and a retinue of gunmen around him, he prowls the streets of Kabul looking less like a banker than like a footballer lost in a war zone.
The aforementioned actions were at least spun very effectively to portray Congress as a sympathetic body demonstrating concern for escalating oil prices, a trap some Americans surely fell into.
Oil and Gas UK - the body representing operators and contractors in the North Sea - is using the 20th anniversary of the disaster to reinforce the safety message offshore.
Talking of wise words, Sir Ian Wood has picked up another award, this one for lifetime achievement and from Oil and Gas UK, the industry body.
Malcolm Webb of Oil and Gas UK, the industry body, said the JX Nippon decision demonstrates that tax incentives negotiated with the Treasury are making UK waters a more attractive region for investment.
There is no oil disaster to speak of in the body of water separating the U.K. and northern and central Europe, but BP 's outgoing chief executive Tony Hayward will nevertheless come under extra pressure from lawmaker Wednesday following a report that the oil giant had not been in full compliance with safety regulations for its North Sea operations.
The learned body noted that biofuels like E85 may spur economic development and help reduce oil imports, but they do little to combat climate change.
The United States Geological Survey, a government scientific body, reckons that the seas around Cuba hold 4.6 billion barrels of oil.
The menu includes a "grape elixir" facial with grape extracts and grape seed oil to refresh the skin, as well as a "salt glow" body peel, which uses a glass of sparkling wine for exfoliation.
Even if the oil never hits the coast in significant quantities, it remains in the Gulf of Mexico, a body of water that cannot be as easily overlooked as Prince William Sound, Alaska.
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