Worldwide distribution of confirmed or inferred offshore gas hydrate-bearing sediments, 1996. Source: USGS

Worldwide distribution of confirmed or inferred offshore gas hydrate-bearing sediments, 1996. Source: USGS

In 1996 the platform set the Guinness World Record for ' largest offshore gas platform '.

Fidelity Investments Ireland was established in 1996 as the European offshore development centre for Fidelity Investments and now employs over 300 people with offices in Dublin and Galway.

A sub-division in Guernsey was established in February 1996, handling offshore savings and investment accounts.

However, an oil for food program was established in 1996 to ease the effects of sanctions.

* 1996 – The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.

The December 1996 signing of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium agreement to build a new pipeline from western Kazakhstan's Tengiz Field to the Black Sea increases prospects for substantially larger oil exports in several years.

In 1996, the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act ( ILSA ) was enacted, seeking to penalize non-U. S. companies which invest more than $ 40 million in Libya's oil and gasoline sector in any one year.

In November 2007, a ship named COSCO Busan collided with the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge and spilled over 58, 000 gallons of bunker fuel, creating the largest oil spill in the region since 1996.

* 1996 – The Julie N. tanker ship crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil.

On 9 December 1996 the UN allowed Saddam's government to begin selling limited amounts of oil for food and medicine.

NYMEX sweet crude oil | light-sweet crude oil prices 1996 – 2009 ( not adjusted for inflation )

In 1996, two large consortiums signed contracts to explore for oil and gas off the northeast coast of the island, Sakhalin-I and Sakhalin-II.

In 1996, three units of the Bolivian state oil corporation ( YPFB ) involved in hydrocarbon exploration, production, and transportation were capitalized, facilitating the construction of a gas pipeline to Brazil.

The Northern Territory, since 1996, adults found in possession of up to 50 grams of marijuana, one gram of hash oil, 10 grams of hash or cannabis seed, or two non-hydroponic plants can be fined $ 200 with 28 days to expiate rather than face a criminal charge.

In an article on July 29, 1996, he revealed that many signers, including Chauncey Starr, Robert Balling, and Patrick Michaels, have received funding from the oil industry, while others had no scientific training or could not be identified.

Also in 1996, the Iraqi ruling regime agreed to the terms of United Security Council Resolution 986, an oil-for-supplies agreement in which Iraq was allowed to sell $ 2 billion worth of oil every six months as a ways to purchase supplies for its increasingly impoverished and malnourished population.

In Waguespack and Cantor ( 1996 ), the authors point out that JIT would require a significant change in the supplier / refiner relationship, but the changes in inventories in the oil industry exhibit none of those tendencies.

* Kung Ling-chieh ( 孔令傑 ), male, also known as Louis C. Kung, was later an American oil executive and married to actress Debra Paget, died in Houston, Texas 1996 He was married to Paget from 1964 – 1980, with one son Gregory Teh-chi Kung ( b. 1964, businessman )

Due to this development and an oil spill off the coast of Wales, in 1996, questions about the Common Scoter population have been asked in the UK Parliament.

The Khobar Towers bombing was a terrorist attack on part of a housing complex in the city of Khobar, Saudi Arabia, located near the national oil company ( Saudi Aramco ) headquarters of Dhahran on June 25, 1996.

Franks worked for and later became president of Liberty Petroleum Corporation, a small oil exploration company established in 1996.

The first field to be discovered was Garoupa in 1974 at a shallow depth of 120 m. The first oil production started in 1977 from Enchova field at the depth of 124 m. The largest fields ( discovery year ) include Albacora ( 1984 ), Marlim ( 1985 ), Albacora Leste ( 1986 ), Marlim Sul ( 1987 ), Marlim Leste ( 1987 ), Barracuda ( 1989 ), Caratinga ( 1989 ), Espadarte ( 1994 ), Roncador ( 1996 ), Jubarte ( 2002 ) and Cachalote ( 2002 ).

He rose to prominence after Boris Yeltsin's reelection in 1996 as co-owner and chairman of Tyumen Oil ( TNK ), one of Russia's largest oil and gas companies.

The Drinker, oil painting, 1996.

* In July 1996, Consumer Reports published the results of a two-year motor oil test involving a fleet of 75 New York taxi cabs and found no noticeable advantage of synthetic oil over regular mineral oil.

Their lower level Minor League Baseball teams began play in 1996 ; the expansion draft was held that year as well.

The first round of mass privatisation finally began in January 1996, and auctions began toward the end of that year.

Modell's team was named the " Baltimore Ravens " after a fan contest and began play in the 1996 season.

Cyprus ratified the new world trade agreement ( General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, GATT ) in 1995 and began implementing it fully on 1 January 1996.

In 1996, Love began obtaining small acting parts again in Basquiat and Feeling Minnesota ( 1996 ), before landing the co-starring role of Larry Flynt's wife, Althea, in Miloš Forman's 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, against Columbia Pictures ' reluctance due to her low profile and " troubled " past.

After Cobain committed suicide in 1994, Love began using heroin again regularly, but quit using the drug in 1996 at the insistence of director Miloš Forman when she landed a starring role in The People vs. Larry Flynt.

In 1996, Love began a relationship with actor Edward Norton and were at one point engaged, but separated in 1999.

Starting in 1996, Guest began writing, directing and acting in his own series of heavily improvised films.

When the Zairian government began to escalate its massacres in November 1996, the Tutsi militias erupted in rebellion against Mobutu.

The two recent conflicts ( the First and Second Congo Wars ), which began in 1996, have dramatically reduced national output and government revenue, have increased external debt, and have resulted in deaths of more than five million people from war, and associated famine and disease.

EverQuest began as a concept by John Smedley in 1996.

Development of EverQuest began in 1996 when Sony Interactive Studios America ( SISA ) executive John Smedley secured funding for a 3D game much like text-based MUDs following the successful launch of Meridian 59 the previous year.

Radio station WKTU began to hold " Freestyle Free for ALL " live concerts in 1996, and formerly held weekend freestyle nights hosted by Judy Torres.

Faced with the potential decrease or cessation of some of the assistance programs upon the Compact's financial provisions ' expiry in 2001, the Government of the FSM in 1996 began to implement a program of economic reforms designed to reduce the role of the public sector in the economy.

The series began as an open specification, then tyres were standardized from 1986 onwards, followed by engines and chassis in 1996.

Gibnet Limited, a private company, began internet services in January 1996, with a 64kbs circuit to Spain.

In 1996, Arlington's campus began its first phase in a three phase campus redevelopment project.

The project began in early January 1996, with a program that ran on i386 computers.

The horror film style has changed over time, but in 1996 Scream set off a " chain of copycats ", leading to a new variety of teenage, horror movies .< ref name = Stack > This new approach to horror films began to gradually earn more and more income as seen in the progress of Scream movies ; the first movie earned six million and the third movie earned one-hundred and one million.

Then, ~ 150, 000 years later ( i. e. around 50, 000 years ago ), sub-groups of this population began to expand our species ' range to regions outside of, and ( later ) within, this continent ( Tishkoff, 1996 ).

These moves along with others saw the Colts began to turn around their fortune with a playoff appearance in 1995 and 1996.