All the headlines from our Energy Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 4 2023 // Three people are dead after a Philippine fishing boat collided with an oil tanker in what the nation’s coast guard described as an accident near a disputed South China Sea shoal.Survivor accounts of the tanker fit...
Oct 3 2023 // (Bloomberg) — Semi trailer-sized machines could provide a unique solution to a major source of the fossil fuel industry’s methane problem. Rather than flaring or venting the planet-warming gas into the...
Sep 29 2023 // On a sunny day off the southern coast of Greece last week, two aging tankers nestled next to each other while one pumped oil to the other. As far as global satellite tracking systems could tell, it never happened.The...
Sep 27 2023 // Ariel Re, the Bermuda-based re/insurer, has relaunched its Clean Energy division as “Ariel Green,” in recognition of the increasingly crucial role of technology performance insurance in accelerating innovation...
Sep 25 2023 // Russian crude oil supplies increased 50% this spring despite the G7 countries imposing sanctions due to war in Ukraine, the Financial Times reported on Sunday citing data from analytics company Kpler.The European Union, G7...
Sep 18 2023 // The state of California filed a lawsuit against some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, claiming they deceived the public about the risks of fossil fuels now faulted for climate change-related storms and...
Sep 6 2023 // The U.S. Coast Guard is continuing to investigate the source of an oil spill that contaminated more than 19,000 gallons of water at Port Manatee in Tampa Bay.The spill was reported last week and crews have worked since...
Sep 1 2023 // European Union countries are preparing to push for a global deal on phasing out fossil fuels at the United Nations COP28 climate summit which begins in November, a draft of the EU’s negotiating position...
Sep 1 2023 // Two months after a railroad bridge collapse sent carloads of hazardous oil products plunging into Montana’s Yellowstone River, the cleanup workers are gone and a mess remains.Thick mats of tarry petroleum asphalt...
Aug 28 2023 // GARYVILLE, La. (AP) – Crews were still working to suppress flare-ups Saturday as a fire at a Louisiana oil refinery burned for a second day along the banks of the Mississippi River, while residents worried about health...
Aug 28 2023 // A P&O cruise ship with thousands of passengers on board collided with an oil tanker off the coast of Palma de Mallorca in Spain on Sunday, injuring a small number of people.Videos posted to social media showed the...
Aug 24 2023 // NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The Biden administration on Tuesday finalized tighter rules for complex devices meant to prevent catastrophic blowouts on offshore oil and gas drilling rigs, reversing some Trump administration...
Aug 23 2023 // Insurance companies have notified charterers of ships operating in Russia’s Black Sea ports of an increase in additional payments known as “war risk premiums,” four traders said.A war risk premium was...
Aug 22 2023 // The price of Russia’s flagship oil may have jumped above a Group of Seven imposed cap but that has done little to impede the provision of western services for the trade.The number of ships calling at the...
Aug 16 2023 // New York City pension funds filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed in May that alleged the plans breached their fiduciary duties by selling billions of dollars of fossil fuel assets. The lawsuit was filed by plaintiffs...
Aug 8 2023 // U.S.-based insurers have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in fossil fuel-related assets which in turn contribute to the risk of climate-related damage to the underwriting side of their businesses, a new report said...
Aug 8 2023 // A drone attack on a Russian oil tanker and a warning from Kyiv that more could follow has so far had little impact on insurance costs for oil and commodity carriers in the key Black Sea region, as rates were already...
Aug 3 2023 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced the settlement in a 2022 federal court lawsuit. Belle Fourche Pipeline Company and Bridger Pipeline LLC will pay the $12.5 million to resolve the claims made...
Jul 27 2023 // An international team began siphoning oil out of a decrepit oil tanker off the coast of Yemen on Tuesday, the United Nations chief said, a crucial step in a complex salvage operation aiming to prevent a potential...
Jul 27 2023 // The Biden administration is poised to increase outreach to western trading houses, insurers and tanker owners to remind them to abide by the Group of Seven’s price cap on Russian oil as the crude trades over that...