All the headlines from our Energy Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 12 2008 // A man who was seriously burned when an Anderson County, Tenn. oil well exploded as he was driving past is suing the company and its owner for $4.5 million, claiming negligence.The well near Oliver Springs, Tenn., ignited...
May 9 2008 // The “Marsh Power Forum” in Paris this week identified potential insurance problems for the industry. Marsh noted that “the combination of rising demand and insured costs in Europe’s electricity...
Apr 25 2008 // A cargo ship contracted by the U.S. military fired on an Iranian vessel in Gulf waters on Friday, raising tension between Washington and Tehran in a region vital to world oil shipments.In January, the United States said...
Apr 23 2008 // Zurich Financial Services Group (Zurich) announced that Zurich Global Energy, a unit of the Global Corporate division, has created a cross-functional team to address the insurance needs of the growing alternative energy...
Apr 17 2008 // Speaking at the recent World National Oil Companies Congress in London, Phillip Ellis, Chairman of Willis Energy, a division of Willis Group Holdings, presented hazard risk management as a guard against shocks that can...
Apr 8 2008 // Tennessee resident, Irene Daugherty, is home but still shaken after an oil well explosion just 60 yards from her front door melted the siding on her manufactured home and transformed the landscape into charred stumps and...
Apr 3 2008 // Arkansas truckers parked their rigs on April 1 to have their say in a national protest over high fuel prices that independent operators say is putting them out of business.Dale Burri of Greenbrier, a driver for J.B. Hunt...
Mar 31 2008 // The operator of an Anderson County, Tenn. oil well that burned for nearly a week has been cited by the state for five violations and fined $50,000.According to the citation, Dan Potts was drilling too deeply and...
Mar 27 2008 // A nearly week-old oil well fire in Anderson County, Tenn. was extinguished Tuesday, but officials worried about the danger of lingering natural gas vapors asked residents to stay away.A spokeswoman for the Environmental...
Mar 26 2008 // Singapore Airlines said on Wednesday that it had to ground an Airbus A380 on Monday and transfer passengers to two smaller Boeing 747s bound for Sydney, after a fuel pump failed to work.This was the fourth incident in...
Mar 24 2008 // A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official has told Anderson County residents that Tennessee officials did not inform them of an oil well fire in a timely manner.The well near Oliver Springs struck a huge pocket of...
Mar 24 2008 // While the oil and gas market can be seen as including pipeline and distribution operations, petroleum and petroleum product wholesalers, fuel oil dealers and even gas stations, the dominant North American Industry...
Mar 20 2008 // Tennessee authorities said at least one person has been burned and residents have been ordered to evacuate after an Anderson County oil well caught fire.Firefighters from several departments were working to put out the...
Mar 10 2008 // For many in the coastal town of Cordova, Alaska, the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster was an event so crushing that hard-bitten fishermen still get teary-eyed recalling ruined livelihoods, broken marriages and suicides.But...
Feb 27 2008 // For many in the coastal town of Cordova, Alaska, the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster was an event so crushing that hard-bitten fishermen still get teary-eyed recalling ruined livelihoods, broken marriages and suicides.But...
Feb 20 2008 // In a bulletin released in advance of Marsh’s National Oil Companies Conference to be held next week, the broker warned that oil companies run the risk of being under insured as world oil prices reach record...
Jan 31 2008 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has joined the American Council On Renewable Energy and the U.S. Green Building Council.Peter Thompson, vice president, Chubb & Son, and worldwide energy manager for Chubb...
Jan 15 2008 // In a controversial decision the government announced that it will approve “a building program for a new generation of nuclear power stations, citing environmental reasons and the need for energy security in a...
Jan 11 2008 // “GCube, the insurance entity spun out of Lloyd’s managing general agency WindPro, has opened its doors to business on both sides of the Atlantic,” notes a bulletin on the Lloyd’s web site...
Jan 9 2008 // Jurors sided with oil giant BP Corp. North America Inc. Monday in a pollution lawsuit filed by the city of Neodesha seeking to recover the costs of cleanup and damages caused by an oil refinery.Jurors hearing the case in...