Houston, home to oil workers and executives is seen as friendly to oil companies.
The end to a oil workers' strike in also contributed to the drop in crude prices.
That spend is good news for those supplying the industry, including oil workers and their wages.
The rig exploded in April, killing 11 oil workers and leading to a huge oil spill.
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The perception of risk for foreign oil workers and their families in north Africa, has soared.
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North Sea oil workers forced to remain on offshore platforms after last week's helicopter ditching are being picked up by boat.
Kazakhstan has extended a state of emergency in the Caspian Sea town of Zhanaozen, where oil workers have been protesting for months.
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Mayor Loschke opened a pub catering to all those thirsty oil workers.
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The situation with oil workers taken hostage in Algeria puts a "dark cloud" over the country's production, an international energy body has said.
Local activists in the Niger Delta, which produces most of Nigeria's oil, regularly kidnap oil workers for ransom or smash installations, sometimes seriously cutting production.
Police in Colombia have blamed the Farc for the disappearance of three oil workers on Wednesday, but there has been no confirmation from the rebels.
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The Chinook had been carrying oil workers from the Brent Field.
In the past week there have been two attacks on oil workers near Angola's only onshore oil installation at Soyo, and one on the fringes of the capital, Luanda.
In the cafe you can instantly pick out the "neftyaniki", the oil workers, with their weather beaten faces, heavy clothes and the air of "don't mess with me" about them.
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As for pensions, the government wants to raise both contributions and the retirement age, and to eliminate special regimes for members of Congress, teachers, oil workers and the armed forces.
So, Ofeibea, the group that's holding the oil workers is called the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, and it's fairly new in Nigeria, but well organized, I gather.
"The 16 January kidnapping and murder of foreign oil workers at the In Amenas gas field has cast a dark cloud over the outlook for the country's energy sector, " it said.
But a strike by oil workers in Norway and heavy maintenance at North Sea fields has exacerbated the shortage this year and sent the price of Brent for immediate delivery much higher.
And a shelter in Lafayette, an inland city heavy with oil workers, got 200 more calls in the eight weeks after the oil disaster started than it did in the eight weeks before.
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Kidnappings of expatriate oil workers in the Niger Delta region by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) earlier this year have also increased concerns surrounding the security of the county's energy infrastructure.
Oil workers had said they would cut production in Africa's biggest producer starting from Sunday, but it is not clear if this threat was carried out, as some strikes were called off over the weekend to allow for more talks.
Separately, Chavez and Morales hold other grudges with the Garcia regime when it gave asylum to top Venezuelan dissidents, including Manuel Rosales, who ran against Chavez for president in 2006, and Carlos Ortega, the oil workers union boss who crossed Chavez.
This has caused a fury on the political left, which complains that the study included estimates of direct and indirect jobs (such as equipment suppliers) but also "induced" jobs, or jobs created when oil workers spend their salaries at, say, hotels, restaurants or bowling alleys.
To keep the thousands of oil field workers from clogging the one artery to the oil sands, 500 buses run in a continuous loop from Fort McMurray to the oil fields.
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The head of the truculent oil-workers' union, Carlos Romero Deschamps, is a PRI candidate for the Senate.
With improved transportation, the need for company towns largely disappeared, though communities built for oil rig workers are still active today.
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But many a president has buckled before the mighty oil-workers' union.
She is vague as to what she would do to improve it when it reaches the Senate, but she will doubtless stick up for farmers, truckers and oil-workers.
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