All the headlines from our Oil Gas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 12 2018 // An environmental group says oil and gas companies drilling off Southern California violated state regulations nearly 400 times in the past three years.Records obtained by The Associated Press that were released Wednesday...
Apr 4 2018 // A contract worker has pleaded guilty to violating the federal Clean Water Act in connection with a deadly oil platform explosion off Louisiana’s coast.Prosecutors said in court documents that Don Moss, of Groves....
Apr 2 2018 // Marathon Petroleum Corp. has agreed to pay $335,000 for a 2016 spill where nearly 36,000 gallons of diesel fuel leaked into the Wabash River near the Indiana-Illinois border.The company’s settlement with the U.S....
Apr 2 2018 // As Louisiana lawmakers scrounge for money, state senators are eyeing an annual stream of Gulf oil spill recovery money tied to economic losses from the disaster.Louisiana is expected to receive yearly payments of $53.3...
Mar 27 2018 // A Texas-based oil field service company has settled a lawsuit with more than 100 southern Oklahoma residents who allege their homes and businesses were damaged by groundwater contamination caused by the company.Halliburton...
Mar 26 2018 // A Chevron attorney said in court last Wednesday that the company supports scientific conclusions that humans are causing climate change, a response to a lawsuit that accuses five major energy producers of misleading the...
Mar 26 2018 // A toxic onslaught from the nation’s petrochemical hub was largely overshadowed by the record-shattering deluge of Hurricane Harvey as residents and first responders struggled to save lives and property.More than a...
Mar 23 2018 // Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb has signed a bill that allows for the widespread sale of a cannabis-derived oil.Cannabidiol, commonly referred to as CBD, is derived from marijuana and hemp and is believed to have therapeutic...
Mar 21 2018 // Five of the world’s biggest energy producers will be questioned by a federal judge on Wednesday about climate change science, part of a lawsuit that accuses the companies of misleading the public for years about...
Mar 8 2018 // Papua New Guinea faces a long road to recovery after the powerful earthquake that hit the nation’s rugged highlands more than 10 days ago, with the death toll now believed to have climbed to more than 100, its leader...
Mar 5 2018 // A company building a crude oil pipeline in Louisiana has asked a federal appeals court to lift a judge’s order that temporarily halts pipeline construction work in a swamp.Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC asked the 5th U.S....
Mar 2 2018 // State Auto Insurance is continuing its exit from the specialty insurance business, selling off more of the business of its excess and surplus lines subsidiary, Rockhill Insurance Group.The buyer this time is specialty...
Mar 1 2018 // The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has developed new requirements for oil and natural gas operators in the event of an earthquake.The commission announced the new protocol for operators in the newest and largest areas of...
Feb 26 2018 // Exxon Mobil Corp. has shut production platforms and a processing plant in the highlands of natural gas exporter Papua New Guinea after an earthquake struck the Pacific nation.The U.S. oil giant closed the facilities to...
Feb 22 2018 // Gov. Bill Walker’s administration has asked the Alaska Legislature for permission to spend $10 million on seismic surveying in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.The seismic survey funding was...
Feb 20 2018 // A 13-year-old oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico remains a “long-term problem” without a clear solution for eliminating chronic slicks that often stretch for miles off Louisiana’s coast, a government lawyer...
Feb 20 2018 // A Kansas House committee has rejected a bill that was designed to prevent earthquakes that experts say are caused by oil and gas production wastewater disposal methods.The Sierra Club and several Kansas residents who say...
Feb 15 2018 // As climate-change lawsuits against the oil industry mount, Exxon Mobil Corp. is taking a bare-knuckle approach rarely seen in legal disputes: It’s going after the lawyers who are suing it.The company has targeted at...
Feb 9 2018 // The oil prospectors of Oklahoma, it appeared, finally had a solution to their earthquake problem.Ordered by regulators to curb the wastewater they were dumping deep into the ground, they watched with satisfaction as...
Feb 9 2018 // At least 1,000 gallons of petroleum fuel has spilled into a river in North Carolina.The Asheville-Citizen Times reports authorities have warned people to stay out of the French Broad River following Sunday’s spill in...