All the headlines from our Oil Gas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 27 2019 // The backlash against shale drilling in earthquake-prone regions — a thorn in the side of U.S. energy companies for the past decade — reached China this week after a series of temblors killed two people and...
Feb 25 2019 // The National Transportation Safety Board says a plane crashed into an apartment building in Massachusetts, killing a former mayor, had fuel tank issues months before the fatal crash.The Eagle-Tribune reports that...
Feb 22 2019 // Federal transportation officials are requiring railroads to establish regional response teams along oil train routes following a series of fiery derailments.The new rule is aimed at having crews and equipment ready in the...
Feb 5 2019 // Crews are working to contain thousands of gallons of crude oil that leaked into a creek in northern Oklahoma.Oklahoma Corporation Commission spokesman Matt Skinner said oil extends for about five miles in Black Bear Creek...
Feb 5 2019 // Shell Offshore Inc. has agreed to pay a $2.2 million civil fine to the federal government to settle charges that the company violated the Clean Water Act by spilling 1,900 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico in May 2016...
Feb 1 2019 // Crews are working to contain thousands of gallons of crude oil that leaked into a creek in northern Oklahoma.Oklahoma Corporation Commission spokesman Matt Skinner said the oil extends for about 5 miles in Black Bear Creek...
Jan 23 2019 // Two ships ablaze in the Black Sea region, leaving at least 10 crew dead, caught fire while transferring fuel mid-sea after one vessel was barred from using its usual port in southern Russia due to U.S. sanctions risk, two...
Jan 23 2019 // Volvo Cars, which is owned by China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, is voluntarily recalling about 200,000 cars after it found an engineering issue that could potentially cause fuel leakage in the engine compartment...
Jan 14 2019 // Wetland ecologist Scott Nesbit drove down a gravel oil field road in Louisiana in an all-terrain utility vehicle, zipping under a heavy forest canopy toward what he says is the source of it all.Nesbit’s target was a...
Jan 10 2019 // An explosion on an oil tanker in Hong Kong on Tuesday killed one crew member and left two others missing at sea, authorities said.The Vietnam-registered tanker burst into flames just before 11:30 a.m. as it prepared to...
Jan 4 2019 // Thailand’s south is bracing for the country’s most powerful tropical storm in decades, which is expected to disrupt oil and gas production and force thousands of international tourists to flee its beaches and...
Dec 31 2018 // A Maltese-flagged oil tanker caught fire and ran aground near a fishing village, forcing several crew members to jump overboard, Cypriot authorities said Saturday [Dec. 29].Cyprus’ Joint Rescue Coordination Center...
Dec 28 2018 // Parker Waldridge had worked in the Oklahoma oilfields since he was 16 and acquired the traits that make a good driller: fortitude, intellect and a healthy respect for the power of a runaway gas well.And so, when...
Dec 27 2018 // Spain’s Supreme Court has ruled that the captain and the insurer of the Prestige oil tanker must pay more than 1.5 billion euros ($1.7 billion) in compensation for Spain’s biggest environmental disaster, when...
Dec 20 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones continues to push the fossil fuel divestment hot button right to the end of the year and his tenure as the state’s head insurance regulator.Jones this week released the...
Dec 13 2018 // A hack on Italian oil services firm Saipem that crippled more than 300 of the company’s computers used a variant of the notorious Shamoon virus, Saipem said, a development that links the case to a massive attack in...
Dec 12 2018 // An “ineffective” safeguard failed to prevent an explosive mixing of air and fuel at a Husky Energy refinery in Superior, Wisconsin, leading to a blast and fire in the plant’s gasoline-producing unit in...
Dec 11 2018 // The Italian oil-services company Saipem SpA is still assessing the scope and impact of a cyber attack that targeted its servers in the Middle East, according to the company’s head of digital and...
Dec 6 2018 // Texas is considering new restrictions on how shale explorers dispose of wastewater from oil drilling as earthquakes rattle the largest oil-producing American state.The new rules would target how much and at what pressure...
Dec 5 2018 // Denmark and Britain are the top countries when it comes to implementing measures to fight climate change, although Britain has lagged in phasing out fossil fuel subsidies, a report published by academics said on...