61.   Environmental authorities slapped a multimillion dollar fine on the state-run oil company for ecological damage caused by two recent accidents on offshore oil platforms.

62.   EPMI employees on an oil platform typically work for seven days and then get the next seven days off.

63.   European Union environmental commissioner Ritt Bjerregaard urged Norway during a visit to this country to ban the dumping of obsolete oil platforms in the ocean.

64.   Filipino crew members who managed to send faxed messages about the ordeal to their government said the ship was seized shortly after leaving an oil platform.

65.   Fires on offshore oil platforms are especially dangerous because of the inflammable materials aboard and the distance from land.

66.   Four Greenpeace activists on Tuesday were aboard the giant floating oil storage platform in an attempt to block the move.

67.   German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel said North Sea nations should formulate common guidelines for disposing of oil platforms without sinking them.

68.   Greenpeace activists cheered and celebrated a victory over Shell oil Tuesday and vowed to try to stop all dumping of oil platforms at sea.

69.   Greenpeace said the protesters were sprayed with water cannons from vessels involved in the operation to dump the redundant Shell-owned oil platform.

70.   Greenpeace sent its largest vessel to the north Atlantic on Monday to try to prevent Shell from dumping an offshore oil platform this week.