All the headlines from our Oil Gas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 20 2014 // Southern Illinois landowners are suing the state for failing to implement hydraulic fracturing, calling the long-running process for adopting rules governing the oil and gas extraction method tantamount to illegal...
Oct 20 2014 // A federal appeals court has upheld the fraud conviction of man who pretended to be a shrimp-boat captain and alleged he lost his livelihood to collect oil spill recovery money.A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Court of...
Oct 17 2014 // Three Mississippi businessmen argue in a federal lawsuit that Texas attorneys owe them $7.9 million for steering to them thousands of people seeking to resolve claims against BP from the 2010 Gulf oil spill.Gulf Coast...
Oct 16 2014 // A new study suggests fracking triggered hundreds of small, unnoticeable earthquakes in eastern Ohio late last year, months before the state first linked seismic activity to the much-debated oil-and-gas extraction...
Oct 16 2014 // Federal prosecutors said three people have been convicted of fraudulently filing Gulf Oil Spill Fund loss claims.Officials said 53-year-old Marcella Truss, her 42-year-old husband Martee Davis and the woman’s...
Oct 14 2014 // Millions of gallons of crude oil are passing through western Pennsylvania — up to 75 trains each week on their way to refineries in the East — according to records released by state emergency management...
Oct 9 2014 // American International Group Inc., the largest commercial insurer in the U.S. and Canada, introduced a policy to help railroads handle losses from catastrophic accidents as more crude oil is shipped by trains.The insurer...
Oct 8 2014 // A state judge in Baton Rouge ruled that Louisiana’s Legislature missed its mark when it passed a bill seeking to halt a south Louisiana flood board’s lawsuit against dozens of oil, gas and pipeline companies...
Oct 8 2014 // Firefighters contained the blaze triggered by the derailment of a Canadian National Railway Co. train carrying petroleum products and toxic material in a rural area in Saskatchewan yesterday.While there were still flames...
Oct 8 2014 // A Vietnamese oil tanker missing for five days may have been hijacked after sailing from Singapore last week, say maritime officials searching for the vessel.The Sunrise 689 vanished from radar at 1:21 p.m. Vietnam time on...
Oct 6 2014 // BP Plc is seeking to undo payments to some victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill in a move opposing lawyers warn could open the floodgates to challenging hundreds of thousands of individual damage-claim awards.BP, which...
Oct 6 2014 // The number of auto accidents involving three or more deaths has more than doubled in Texas since 2010, with more fatalities occurring along roads seeing increased traffic because of the oil and gas boom.An investigation by...
Oct 2 2014 // Proposed federal rules to make hauling crude oil by rail safer and avoid fiery wrecks would drive up costs and put the U.S. energy revival at risk, the head of an oil industry trade group said today.The American Petroleum...
Sep 24 2014 // BPlc can’t recover hundreds of millions of dollars it claims to have overpaid some victims for economic losses from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a U.S. judge said.After the court revised the method for...
Sep 24 2014 // A supporter of a lawsuit against the oil industry was re-nominated to a seat on a south Louisiana flood control board, despite Gov. Bobby Jindal’s vehement opposition to the lawsuit.The nominating committee for the...
Sep 24 2014 // North Dakota oil producers told the state’s energy regulators that existing field practices used to prepare Bakken crude for rail transport are safe and that tougher rules could do more harm than good.The comments,...
Sep 23 2014 // The Canadian government is looking at extending the insurance burden for crude-by-rail disasters beyond just railways and is weighing the idea of a special fund similar to one once set up for maritime oil spills, a...
Sep 22 2014 // The number of auto accidents involving three or more deaths has more than doubled in Texas since 2010, with more fatalities occurring along roads seeing increased traffic because of the oil and gas boom.An investigation by...
Sep 22 2014 // While U.S. President Barack Obama and more than 100 other world leaders will meet in a summit devoted to climate change, the most tangible action on global warming this week may come from companies.Mars Inc. and others...
Sep 16 2014 // Vehicle crash deaths are significantly up in parts of Texas where oil and gas production is booming the most.The Houston Chronicle reports that deaths rose more than 50 percent in the West Texas counties located on the...