All the headlines from our Oil Gas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 22 2023 // Chubb Ltd. announced new underwriting criteria for oil and gas extraction projects that will require clients to reduce methane emissions, a by-product of oil and gas production that are among the most severe greenhouse...
Mar 21 2023 // Canada’s federal government is stepping up environmental oversight in Alberta’s oil sands after Imperial Oil Ltd. and the provincial regulator were slow to report toxic spills.Environment Minister Steven...
Mar 17 2023 // California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he wants state regulators to decide whether to impose the nation’s first penalty on oil companies for price gouging, pivoting after months of negotiations with legislative leaders...
Mar 16 2023 // Federal investigators found an oil and gas company employee suffered fatal exposure to hydrogen sulfide while working near a sump pit in September 2022.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...
Mar 16 2023 // Citgo Petroleum Corp. may move forward with an attempt to collect more than $40 million it claimed from insurers after Venezuelan authorities in 2020 seized almost a million barrels of its oil.US District Judge Gregory...
Mar 15 2023 // Six environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday over the Biden administration’s approval of ConocoPhillips’ Willow oil and gas project in Alaska, which they claimed could be a stepping stone to more...
Mar 15 2023 // The Philippines is grappling with the fallout of an oil spill south of Manila, with a contractor describing the cleanup as a “logistical nightmare” amid questions on why the ship carrying industrial fuel was...
Mar 14 2023 // Philippine authorities have increased efforts to contain an oil spill from a sunken fuel tanker that has affected coastal towns and was still spreading, the environment ministry said on Tuesday, as the country grapples...
Mar 8 2023 // A defunct company that spilled more than a million gallons of crude oil and wastewater in California must pay more than $65 million in penalties and cleanup costs, federal prosecutors announced.A federal court entered a...
Mar 7 2023 // Connecticut lawmakers are considering imposing a surcharge on insurers’ premiums from the fossil fuel industry.The proposal (SB-1115) calls for a tax of 5% of any premiums any insurer licensed in the state receives...
Mar 6 2023 // Indonesia will relocate residents living near a fuel-storage fire that killed 16 people or remove the depot owned by state energy company Pertamina to a safer location, President Joko Widodo said on Sunday.The decision...
Mar 3 2023 // Shell Plc won a bid to limit a British lawsuit over an oil spill off the coast of Nigeria after a judge ruled that a group of thousands of Nigerians couldn’t prove that the disaster continued to wreak devastation on...
Mar 3 2023 // Shipping companies will pay nearly $97 million to settle a lawsuit with a pipeline operator over a 2021 oil spill off the coast of Southern California, the pipeline company said Wednesday.Amplify Energy, the Houston-based...
Feb 27 2023 // A cargo of Russian oil is heading for storage tanks in Ghana, a nation that exports crude itself and is on the doorstep of two regional supply powerhouses.The development suggests that traders could be scouring the market...
Feb 20 2023 // The Rhode Island Supreme Court for the first time has found the definition of pollution in a commercial policy ambiguous enough to justify vacating a lower court’s summary judgment in favor of the insurer.The...
Feb 14 2023 // WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – One person was severely burned in an explosion and fire at an oil field in western North Dakota, fire officials said.The explosion was reported about 10:30 p.m. Friday at a saltwater disposal site...
Feb 13 2023 // TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – A faulty weld at a bend in an oil pipeline contributed to a spill that dumped nearly 13,000 bathtubs’ worth of crude oil into a northeastern Kansas creek, the pipeline’s operator said last...
Feb 6 2023 // The “shadow fleet” of ships that transport Russian oil around the world has expanded to around 600 tankers, according to trading giant Trafigura.About 400 crude oil vessels, or 20% of the global fleet, have...
Feb 6 2023 // The Group of Seven rich nations, the European Union and Australia have set price caps for Russian diesel and other refined petroleum products to keep markets supplied while limiting Moscow’s revenues when an EU...
Feb 6 2023 // European Union countries agreed to set price caps on Russian refined oil products to limit Moscow’s funds for its invasion of Ukraine, the Swedish presidency of the EU said on Friday.EU diplomats said the price caps...