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U.S. Offers States $1.15B to Clean Up Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells

Feb 1 2022 // The Biden administration on Monday said it would make $1.15 billion available to states to clean up abandoned oil and gas wells as part of a broad effort to reduce U.S. climate warming emissions and improve health and...

People Moves: Chubb Hires Global Aerospace’s Abbott; Brit Names Chaganty as Chief Data Officer; WTW Taps Marsh’s Gardner for GB Renewable Energy & Power Team

Feb 1 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Chubb Global Markets, Brit Ltd. and Willis Towers Watson.A summary of these new hires follows here. Chubb Global Markets Appoints Abbott as Product Head...

Chaucer Forms Renewable Power Team in Move to Expand Energy Division

Feb 1 2022 // Specialty re/insurance group Chaucer announced the creation of a dedicated team for Renewable Power as part of plans to broaden its Energy Division and provide dedicated support to oil and gas clients as they transition...

Oklahoma Oil Tank Battery Explosion and Fire Injures 2

Jan 26 2022 // Two workers were injured Jan. 24 in an explosion and fire at a central Oklahoma oil tank battery, officials said.The incident happened shortly before 2 p.m. at a Devon Energy oil well pad in Okarche, Oklahoma, about 35...

California Bill Would Require Insurers to Disclose Fossil Fuel Dealings

Jan 25 2022 // California Assemblyman Marc Levine (D-Marin County) on Tuesday introduced a bill to require insurance companies operating in California to disclose investments in fossil fuel-related entities as well as the fossil...

UAE Bans Flying of Recreational Drones After Fatal Attack on Oil Facility

Jan 25 2022 // DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – The United Arab Emirates has banned the flying of drones in the country for recreation after Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed a fatal drone attack on an oil facility and major...

Two Oil Tankers Lose Safety Certification Over Claims They Violated Iran Sanctions

Jan 21 2022 // Two tankers have had their environmental and safety classification withdrawn by a U.S. company that provides such certification, after accusations by a U.S. advocacy group that they had shipped cargoes of Iranian oil,...

Shell Appeals $2 Billion Court Judgment in Nigerian Oil-Spill Case

Jan 21 2022 // A Nigerian court will hear Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s appeal to overturn an almost $2 billion award against the company for allegedly spilling oil in the West African country.The energy giant is challenging a November...

Appeals Court Clears The Hartford on Most BP Oil Spill Cleanup Workers’ Injury Claims

Jan 20 2022 // Navigators Insurance, part of The Hartford, does not have to cover most medical and injury claims from 2,000 workers who cleaned beaches after the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a federal appeals court decided...

Oil Spill Caused by Massive Waves From Tonga Is ‘Ecological Disaster’ for Peru

Jan 20 2022 // An oil spill at a refinery in Peru during high waves caused by the explosion last weekend of a volcano in Tonga is an “ecological disaster,” the Peruvian government said on Wednesday.The foreign ministry said...

Houston Oil and Gas Exploration Companies to Settle $54,500 Disability Claim

Jan 20 2022 // Two oil and gas explor­ation companies — Vantage Energy Services, Inc. and Vantage International Management Company Pte. Ltd. — will pay $54,500 and provide training to its managers and human resources staff...

UK High Court Throws Out Case Brought by Climate Activists Against Oil Regulator

Jan 19 2022 // A UK High Court on Tuesday threw out a case brought by climate activists against the country’s oil and gas regulator OGA, rejecting their argument that the OGA’s actions amount to a type of unlawful subsidy of...

Harmful Soot Unchecked as Big Oil Battles EPA Over Testing: INSIGHT

Jan 7 2022 // A deadly form of soot pollution from U.S. refineries has gone unregulated for decades because of a dispute between the U.S. oil industry and federal environmental officials over how to measure it, according to documents...

Family Sues Oil Company After Fatal Louisiana Tank Explosion

Dec 28 2021 // Relatives of a 14-year-old girl who died when an oil storage tank exploded in February have sued the company that operated the tank.The suit against Urban Oil & Gas Group and its insurer was filed in federal court in...

New Orleans-Based Oil Company Agrees to $475M Settlement over Oil Spill

Dec 27 2021 // A New Orleans-based oil company has agreed to turn over a $432 million cleanup trust fund and pay an additional $43 million to settle a federal lawsuit over cleaning up abandoned wells leaking since 2004, federal...

Lloyd’s Asia Launches Renewable Energy Consortium

Dec 27 2021 // Lloyd’s has launched a new renewable energy consortium, to respond to the growing needs of the Asia-Pacific region and supporting countries, as they transition to greener energy solutions.Developed by the...

Grand Jury Charges Oil Company in California Spill

Dec 17 2021 // A Los Angeles federal grand jury charged an oil company and two subsidiaries for an oil spill off the California coast in October.Federal prosecutors said Amplify Energy Corp. in Houston, Texas and its two subsidiaries...

EPA Orders Louisiana Fuel Plant to Clean Up Emissions

Dec 16 2021 // Federal regulators have announced plans to make Louisiana and a suburban New Orleans fuel plant clean up emissions that have violated air quality standards since at least 2013.The Environmental Protection Agency says a...

Safeguards for Leaking California Oil Pipe’s Not Fully Working

Dec 10 2021 // The ruptured offshore pipeline that spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil off the Southern California coast this fall did not have a fully functioning leak detection system at the time, according to a report...

Texas Barge Company to Pay More Than $15 Million Over Oil Spill

Dec 2 2021 // Houston, Texas-based Kirby Inland Marine LP has agreed to pay $15.3 million in damages and assessment costs under the Oil Pollution Act to resolve federal and state claims for injuries to natural resources resulting from...