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Iran’s Gulf smugglers feel blowback from tensions (AP)

In this Jan. 18, 2012 photo, Iranian smugglers leave the  port on a speedboat loaded with goods to cross the Strait of Hormuz to reach Iranian coastal areas, in Khasab, Oman. Even as sanctions squeeze Iran ever tighter, there's one clandestine route that remains open for business: A short sea corridor connecting a rocky nub of Oman with the Iranian coast about 35 miles (60 kilometers) across the Gulf. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)AP – Even as sanctions squeeze Iran ever tighter, there’s one clandestine route that remains open for business: A short sea corridor across the Persian Gulf connecting a rocky nub of Oman and the Iranian coast about 35 miles (60 kilometers) away.


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Iran warns Gulf Arabs on oil (AP)

In this photo released by Saudi Press Agency, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, center, is welcomed by an unidentified Saudi official, left, as Saudi crown prince Nayef bin Abdel-Aziz, right, looks on prior their meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012. China's premier visits Saudi Arabia as part of six-day Mideast trip that also takes him to the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. The visit to the region runs from Jan. 14-19. Wen Jiabao is slated to discuss the Arab Spring uprising and talks are likely to also focus on the latest U.S. sanctions on Iran, a major oil exporter to China. (AP Photo/HO) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALESAP – Iran warned Gulf Arab oil producers against boosting production to offset any potential drop in Tehran’s crude exports in the event of an embargo affecting its oil sales, the latest salvo in the dispute between the West and the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program.


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Deep Gulf drilling thrives 18 mos. after BP spill (AP)

In this Oct. 27, 2011 photo, an underwater robot is lowered into the water to work on equipment on the sea floor, 8,000 feet below. Two hundred miles off the coast of Texas, ribbons of pipe are reaching for oil and natural gas deeper below the ocean's surface than ever before. (AP Photo/Jon Fahey)AP – Two hundred miles off the coast of Texas, ribbons of pipe are reaching for oil and natural gas deeper below the ocean’s surface than ever before.


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Gulf spill blamed on poor management decisions (AP)

Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon, off Louisiana, in this handout photograph taken on April 21, 2010 and obtained on April 22. REUTERS/U.S. Coast Guard/HandoutAP – A key federal report laid much of the blame on BP for the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history and the deaths of 11 rig workers, particularly with regard to the cement seal that was put in place the day before the explosion that triggered the spill.


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7 oil workers found alive in Gulf of Mexico (AP)

A fisherman casts his net into the waters of Chachalaca Beach, in the gulf coast state of Veracruz, Mexico, Saturday Sept. 10, 2011. Tropical Storm Nate is headed west, threatening new areas of Mexico's gulf coast where hurricane conditions are expected by early Sunday afternoon. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP – Seven of 10 oil workers missing in the Gulf of Mexico were found alive Sunday, according to Mexico’s state oil company, three days after evacuating their disabled rig in a tropical storm and escaping in an enclosed life raft.


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Lee drenches Gulf Coast, could cause inland floods (AP)

A band of dark rain clouds approaches the shore Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011 in Dauphin Island, Ala. as the center of slow crawling Tropical Storm Lee made landfall Sunday on the Louisiana coast. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)AP – Tropical Storm Lee dumped more than a foot of rain in New Orleans and spun off tornadoes elsewhere Sunday as its center came ashore in a slow crawl north that raised fears of inland flash flooding in the Deep South and beyond.


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Lee lashes Gulf coast, flood threat expands inland (AP)

This NOAA satellite image taken Friday, September 2, 2011 at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows clouds cover most of the Gulf of Mexico.  Tropical Depression Thirteen is now located about 240 miles southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River with maximum sustained winds up to 35 mph.  The system is expected to intensify as it continues moving northward and over the northern Gulf Coast. To the east, Katia has decreased to a Tropical Storm with maximum sustained winds at 70 mph.  The storm is now located about 830 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands and continues moving northwestward at 16 mph.  (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)AP – The center of Tropical Storm Lee made landfall Sunday on the Louisiana coast, bringing up to a foot of rain, spinoff tornadoes and fears of inland flash flooding to the Deep South and beyond.


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