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Nabors Industries Ltd., the oil-drilling contractor whose chairman is set to receive $100 million for relinquishing his chief-executive title, said Wednesday the Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an investigation into perks received by its executives, including personal flights on company jets.

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They cite the slow pace of issuing new oil-drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico since last summer's oil spill.

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In India Shah has found a niche for himself by supplying fire suppression and alarm systems to offshore oil-drilling platforms, telecom data centers and outsourcing offices that need round-the-clock fire protection.

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Nabors said the U.S. has opened an investigation into perks received by the oil-drilling contractor's executives, including personal flights on company jets.

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Rangel is also accused of misusing a rent-controlled apartment for political purposes and preserving tax benefits for an oil-drilling company in exchange for donations to a project he supported at City College of New York.

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Economists point to an array of factors, including high energy prices that set off an oil-drilling frenzy, rising exports and a conservative banking industry that helped the state sidestep the housing crash.

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Associated Press Investors speculated about whether offshore oil-drilling company Pride International would be the subject of a bidding war.

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HANOI, Vietnam—Hundreds of demonstrators gathered Sunday in Vietnam's capital in a rare protest demanding that China stay out of their waters following a spat involving a Vietnamese oil-drilling research boat in the South China Sea.

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In fact the position at that point was that Denmark's navy and Greenland's police were considering boarding the ship Greenpeace clashes with Danish navy after boarding oil-drilling ship, 31 May, page 13, early editions.

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Nabors Industries said the SEC has opened an investigation into perks received by the oil-drilling contractor's executives.

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