All the headlines from our Oil Gas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 13 2024 // Plains All American Pipeline has agreed to pay $72.5 million to settle a lawsuit over the 2015 Refugio Beach oil spill in Santa Barbara, a filing showed on Tuesday.The spill occurred after a pipeline, which ran across...
Nov 7 2024 // About 17% of crude oil production and 7% of natural gas output in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico was shut in response to Hurricane Rafael, the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said on Wednesday.Energy producers...
Oct 24 2024 // A dark-fleet oil tanker that was recently involved in a crash in Southeast Asia is now on its way to China.Ceres I, an aging very-large crude carrier that’s suspected of transporting sanctioned oil, is en route to...
Oct 23 2024 // Honda is recalling 780,000 vehicles in North America over concerns that a high-pressure fuel pump may crack and leak fuel.A fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source could increase the risk of a fire, the automaker...
Oct 22 2024 // One of the energy market’s open questions since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been who’s insuring the tankers moving Moscow’s petroleum against the risk of a catastrophic oil spill.The answer is...
Oct 22 2024 // The US is paying close attention to the “dark fleet” of tankers carrying restricted oil and doing ship-to-ship transfers in Southeast Asian waters, the State Department’s top energy official...
Oct 22 2024 // A federal appeals court has underscored the high bar that expert witnesses must meet before a court can connect the dots between exposure and illness, a ruling that could have an impact on insurance claims and toxic tort...
Oct 18 2024 // The UK said three government bodies are working together to challenge Russian shadow fleet oil tankers if it perceives they have dubious insurance.An announcement from the country’s Foreign, Commonwealth and...
Oct 17 2024 // Oil field service companies Bigfoot Energy Services and Iron Mountain Energy Services, operating as a single employer, violated federal law by failing to prevent widespread sexual and racial harassment in their workforce,...
Oct 16 2024 // Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland, has added the state’s largest natural gas utility to its $51.5 billion climate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies over their role in the region’s deadly...
Oct 15 2024 // DEER PARK, Texas (AP) — Two employees killed when hydrogen sulfide leaked at a Houston-area oil refinery were employees of a subcontractor performing maintenance work, the director of Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned...
Oct 10 2024 // The Lloyd’s of London market is undermining climate action and should impose binding rules to prevent insurers supporting fossil fuel expansion, NGO Reclaim Finance said on Wednesday.Some European insurers, including...
Oct 1 2024 // An explosive-laden drone boat slammed into an oil tanker as it sailed past the coast of Yemen, a sign Israeli airstrikes haven’t deterred the country’s Houthi militants from attacking commercial shipping.The...
Sep 30 2024 // Singapore-flagged oil tanker EM Longevity made its final voyage almost three years ago, after more than two decades at sea. Earlier this month, ship-tracking data showed it arriving at a Chinese port, loaded with crude and...
Sep 20 2024 // Russia’s state-run oil tanker company Sovcomflot PJSC said that western sanctions on ships moving the nation’s petroleum oil are only serving to heighten environmental risks by forcing some vessels out of...
Sep 18 2024 // Russian insurers are playing a growing role facilitating the country’s oil shipments to India, its biggest buyer, data obtained from trade and shipping sources shows, helping to protect Moscow’s export revenue...
Sep 18 2024 // Marine insurance markets face significant risk from the growth of a shadow fleet of ships hauling oil from sanctioned producers like Russian and Iran, an industry group said.The opaque nature of the ownership of those...
Sep 17 2024 // Several oil companies including Exxon Mobil and Chevron defeated an appeal on Monday by consumers who accused them of colluding with former U.S. President Donald Trump, Russia and Saudi Arabia to cut oil production,...
Sep 16 2024 // The European Union’s naval force said it managed to connect tug boats to a burning oil tanker in the Red Sea, and that the vessel is now being towed away.“The tug boats have successfully connected to the vessel...
Sep 13 2024 // Texas is inching closer to adopting revised oil and gas waste management rules for the first time in four decades.The Railroad Commission of Texas announced the draft rule at its Aug. 15 meeting and is now soliciting...