All the headlines from our Oil Gas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 13 2016 // The oil and gas industry may not be to blame if northeastern Colorado tap water is so full of methane it can be set on fire, researchers say.Fewer than 5 percent of the region’s water wells that were checked for...
Jul 13 2016 // California Gov. Jerry Brown has launched a campaign to extend some of the most ambitious climate-change programs in the country and ensure his environmental legacy when he leaves office in two years.The centerpiece of the...
Jul 12 2016 // Global oil and shipping markets reacted nervously on Tuesday after an international arbitration court ruled against Beijing’s claims across large swathes of the South China Sea, fueling geopolitical tensions in the...
Jul 11 2016 // The Hudson River may still become a major corridor for the shipment of thick, tar sands oil from Canada despite moves last year by New York officials that attempted to halt those efforts.At issue is a key air permit needed...
Jul 5 2016 // Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) will resume sailing to Iran this month after a four-year gap, transporting an oil cargo for a state-run refiner, the chairman of India’s biggest shipping company said on...
Jun 30 2016 // North Dakota regulators have adopted new rules aimed at reducing spills by the oil industry.The state Industrial Commission approved rules that included bonding and increased inspections on pipelines. Another new rule...
Jun 24 2016 // Nearly $1.24 billion in punitive damages arising from BP’s 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill will become available to property owners and some fishermen affected by the spill under a pending settlement with two...
Jun 23 2016 // A worker was killed in a crane accident at an oil well site in western North Dakota, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said.The incident, which happened late on June 20 near Ross in Mountrail County, was...
Jun 21 2016 // One worker was killed and two others were seriously injured in an explosion and fire at an oil well in western North Dakota, authorities said.The McKenzie County Sheriff’s Department said 52-year-old Johnny Stassinos...
Jun 21 2016 // The Hudson River may still become a major corridor for the shipment of thick, tar sands oil from Canada despite moves last year by New York officials that many thought stopped those efforts.At issue is a key air permit...
Jun 20 2016 // The worst oil bust since the 1980s is putting Texas and other oil producing states on the hook for thousands of newly abandoned drilling sites at a time when they have little money to plug wells and seal off environmental...
Jun 10 2016 // Ironshore Inc. has added Oil Casualty Insurance, Ltd. (OCIL) as a subscribing insurer to Iron-Starr Excess Agency Ltd. for Financial Lines business. Iron-Starr currently underwrites on behalf of Ironshore Insurance Ltd....
Jun 3 2016 // BP Plc said it agreed to pay $175 million to settle claims by U.S. investors that its managers lied about the size of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill to prop up its stock price, removing the company’s last major...
Jun 2 2016 // Getting insurers to rid themselves of investments in fossil fuels, creating products to deal with climate change and helping the world better understand risk, were among the topics on Wednesday at a summit on the insurance...
May 27 2016 // North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple told industry and government officials on May 25 that the state’s unprecedented oil boom that made it the economic darling of the nation is far from going bust.“From our...
May 26 2016 // It may not be a climate change summit for the ages like last year’s Paris meeting in which world leaders hashed out a historic agreement to reduce carbon emissions, but it does have two things in common with the 2015...
May 26 2016 // A Williston, N.D.-based oil field service company will pay $250,000 to a worker it fired after he complained of harassment to settle a discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
May 25 2016 // Hazardous materials crews are cleaning up as many as 21,000 gallons of oil after a pipeline rupture in Northern California.The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Shell Pipeline Co. officials say a response team is...
May 25 2016 // All of the Canadian oil-sands facilities that workers fled last week as a wildfire spread are being allowed to prepare for restart as cool, humid weather has helped contain the inferno.Alberta lifted mandatory evacuation...
May 24 2016 // Leading U.S. insurers have nearly half-a-trillion dollars invested the fossil fuel energy and the electric and gas utility sectors, according to a report out today that urges state insurance regulators and board members of...