All the headlines from our Energy Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 22 2012 // Energy companies began evacuating non-essential personnel from operations in Gulf of Mexico on Friday due to the threat of a weather system in the region developing into a tropical cyclone.Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and...
Jun 18 2012 // In less than two weeks, Iran’s biggest oil buyers will lose access to the London-based insurance market that protects 95 percent of the world’s tanker shipments against oil spills or catastrophic...
Jun 18 2012 // Thousands of victims of BP’s 2010 Gulf oil spill will participate in a new process for economic-loss and medical claims associated with the accident.The Deepwater Horizon Claims Center, run by court-appointed...
Jun 18 2012 // Every few years there are predictions of a new type of claim that threatens to engulf carriers. In the 1980s and 1990s it was environmental clean up claims and SuperFund, followed shortly by asbestos, the fear of Y2K...
Jun 18 2012 // Thousands of victims of BP’s 2010 Gulf oil spill can participate in a new process for economic-loss and medical claims from the accident.The Deepwater Horizon Claims Center, run by court-appointed administrator...
Jun 15 2012 // A former BP Plc engineer who is the first individual to face criminal charges related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been scheduled to face a jury trial on Feb. 25, a U.S. federal judge decided.Kurt Mix, the...
Jun 14 2012 // Japan’s lower house is set to pass a bill on Friday to provide government guarantees on insurance for Iranian crude cargoes, making it the first of Iran’s big Asian buyers to find a way to keep the oil flowing...
Jun 13 2012 // Iran’s oil exports have fallen by an estimated 40 percent since the start of the year as Western sanctions tear into the country’s vital oil industry, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday.The...
Jun 13 2012 // Iran’s biggest tanker operator, NITC, has $1 billion in ship insurance cover to keep its fleet on the water and serve clients in Asia despite Western sanctions on the Islamic Republic’s oil trade, a senior NITC...
Jun 12 2012 // Kevin Costner has testified he never saw actor Stephen Baldwin contribute anything to their company’s efforts to sell oil cleanup devices to BP in the aftermath of the 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico.Baldwin and...
Jun 12 2012 // The United States extended exemptions from its tough, new sanctions on Iran’s oil trade to seven more economies on Monday, leaving China the last remaining major importer exposed to possible penalties at the end of...
Jun 8 2012 // A days-long fire at the Iowa City Landfill has created a combustible substance that officials are sending to western Nebraska for incineration.The Iowa City Press-Citizen said that the pyrolytic oil is a byproduct of the...
Jun 8 2012 // The United States will announce a new list of countries that will receive exceptions to financial sanctions on oil trade with Iran as soon as early next week, a government official said on Thursday.Not all of Iran’s...
Jun 6 2012 // Thousands of victims of BP’s 2010 Gulf oil spill will participate in a new process for economic-loss and medical claims associated with the accident.The Deepwater Horizon Claims Center, run by court-appointed...
Jun 5 2012 // Jury selection began June 4 in a legal fight between two Hollywood stars over investments in a device used to try to clean up BP’s 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.In his lawsuit, actor Stephen Baldwin claims...
May 25 2012 // Gloom infects the hard-working shrimp and crab docks of this gritty fishing town as the second full year of fishing since BP’s catastrophic oil spill kicks into high gear.Usually folks are upbeat and busy in May,...
May 25 2012 // Every few years it seems that there are predictions a new type of claim that threatens to engulf carriers. In the 1980s and 1990s it was environmental clean up claims and SuperFund, followed shortly by asbestos, the fear...
May 23 2012 // Officials say three workers are dead following an explosion at an abandoned oil well near El Dorado in southern Arkansas.Union County Emergency Manager Jerry Thomas says three workers at Long Brothers Oil Company were...
May 22 2012 // The U.S. Senate unanimously approved on Monday a package of new economic sanctions on Iran’s oil sector just days ahead of a meeting in Baghdad between major world powers and Tehran.The sanctions add to a raft of...