All the headlines from our Oil Gas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 8 2014 // Despite efforts to improve roads and safety enforcement, traffic fatalities in North Dakota’s drilling regions keep climbing while the rest of the state’s roads are getting safer.Traffic deaths in six western...
May 8 2014 // The U.S. Transportation Department issued an emergency order designed to reduce the risks of transporting crude from North Dakota’s booming Bakken region by rail, a week after an oil train derailed and burned in...
May 7 2014 // Severe winter weather during the last three months of the year affected key industries tied to oil extraction, slowing North Dakota’s taxable sales and purchases in 2013, the state tax commissioner said.North...
May 5 2014 // Another bill pushed by Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration to undermine a lawsuit filed by a south Louisiana flood protection board against oil and gas companies is advancing in the state Senate.Senate Bill 469 by...
May 1 2014 // A CSX Corp. crude train derailed in Lynchburg, Virginia, Wednesday, sparking a fire in at least three tank cars, spilling oil into a river and forcing a partial evacuation of the city’s downtown.No injuries were...
Apr 29 2014 // A divided U.S. appeals court revived efforts by oil companies to force the federal government to reimburse them for the cost to clean up a Southern California site where they had dumped toxic sludge during World War II.By...
Apr 25 2014 // Spurred by a series of fiery train crashes, a push by government and industry to make safer tank cars used for shipping crude oil and ethanol has bogged down in squabbling and finger-pointing over whether they’re...
Apr 24 2014 // The next hacker playground: the open seas – and the oil tankers and container vessels that ship 90 percent of the goods moved around the planet.In this internet age, as more devices are hooked up online, so they...
Apr 23 2014 // Warren Buffett, chairman of conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, said on Wednesday that safety is a major priority for the rail industry, after a recent spate of accidents raised concerns about how to transport oil...
Apr 22 2014 // Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler has sued BP plc. for allegedly making false and misleading statements regarding its commitment to safety reforms and oil spill prevention and response capabilities. Ganlser...
Apr 22 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Exxon Mobil Corp.’s appeal of a $105 million jury verdict it was ordered to pay for contaminating underground water in New York City with a gasoline additive.The Irving, Texas-based...
Apr 21 2014 // Four years after the Deepwater Horizon spill, oil is still washing up on the long sandy beaches of Grand Isle, Louisiana, and some islanders are fed up with hearing from BP that the crisis is over.Jules Melancon, the last...
Apr 17 2014 // The Louisiana Senate sided with Gov. Bobby Jindal and the oil industry, agreeing to void a lawsuit that a south Louisiana flood board filed against more than 90 oil and gas companies for coastal damage.Senate Bill 553 by...
Apr 7 2014 // There has been much discussion regarding the increasing frequency and intensity of storms around the world. While both underwriters and insurance buyers are concerned with exposure to potential catastrophic losses from...
Apr 4 2014 // Governments should require companies shipping crude oil by rail to carry enough liability insurance to make up for shortfalls in coverage carried by railways, the president of Canada’s second-largest rail operator...
Apr 3 2014 // The U.N.’s climate chief called on the oil and gas industry on Thursday to make a drastic shift to a clean, low-carbon future or risk having to leave three-quarters of fossil fuel reserves in the ground.“The...
Mar 26 2014 // Canadian National Railway Co. will phase out its fleet of 183 older tank rail cars used to transport diesel fuel over the next four years, as it works to improve safety following a string of industry accidents involving...
Mar 21 2014 // Before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, there was the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska, at the time the largest oil spill in the U.S.The 987-foot (300-meter) tanker, carrying 53 million gallons...
Mar 18 2014 // U.S. Special Forces seized a tanker that fled with a cargo of oil from a Libyan port controlled by anti-government rebels, halting their attempt to sell crude on the global market.Gunmen demanding regional autonomy and a...
Mar 11 2014 // BP Plc’s bid to temporarily halt payments under its $9.2 billion oil-spill settlement so that heightened accounting and fraud safeguards can be established was rejected by a federal judge in New Orleans.U.S. District...