All the headlines from our Oil Gas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 9 2012 // A cargo ship grounded off the New Zealand coast since October has split in two, spilling sea containers and debris and sparking fears of a fresh oil spill, maritime officials said Sunday.The wreck of the Greek-owned Rena...
Jan 5 2012 // Ecuadorean plaintiffs who won an $18 billion environmental case against Chevron Corp will pursue legal action against the company overseas in a bid to collect the damages, their lawyer said on Wednesday.An appeals court in...
Jan 4 2012 // An Ecuadorean appeals court on Tuesday upheld a ruling that Chevron Corp should pay $18 billion in damages to plaintiffs who accused the U.S. oil giant of polluting the Amazon jungle and damaging their health.A local judge...
Dec 19 2011 // A drilling rig with 67 crew on board capsized and sank off Russia’s far eastern island of Sakhalin on Sunday while being towed through a winter storm, leaving more than 50 dead or missing in the icy Sea of...
Dec 16 2011 // A $10.6 billion lawsuit against U.S. oil company Chevron and rig contractor Transocean could further cool an increasingly chilly investment climate in Brazil’s natural resources industry.The lawsuit, filed as a...
Dec 14 2011 // Four people will spend five years on probation after being convicted of pocketing money from Gulf oil spill claims.The Press-Register reported that U.S. District Judge William Steele also ordered the four to pay back money...
Dec 6 2011 // BP Plc accused Halliburton Co. of destroying evidence that the oilfield services company did inadequate cement work on the Gulf of Mexico oil well that blew out last year, and asked a federal judge to punish...
Dec 5 2011 // Authorities in the city that serves as the hub for North Dakota’s oil activity say vehicle accidents are on the rise. Statistics released by police in Williston show there were nearly twice as many accidents reported...
Dec 5 2011 // BP has lost two big rulings in its fight to shield itself from potentially having to pay billions of dollars more in damages related to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.A federal judge ruled in mid-November...
Dec 5 2011 // A federal judge rejected BP Plc’s bid to use insurance coverage from Transocean Ltd to cover costs stemming from last year’s record oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.The decision by U.S. District Judge Carl...
Nov 23 2011 // Authorities in the city that serves as the hub for North Dakota’s oil activity say vehicle accidents are on the rise. Statistics released by police in Williston show there were nearly twice as many accidents reported...
Nov 23 2011 // Serafino Alfe was deep-frying turkeys for an annual fundraiser dinner recently and ended up at the Loyola Burn unit with third-degree burns – the worst – on his leg.“I tripped and fell right into the deep...
Nov 21 2011 // U.S. oil company Chevron will fully clean up a spill off Brazil’s coast, George Buck, the CEO of the local subsidiary said on Sunday, taking responsibility for an accident that has become a major test for one of the...
Nov 17 2011 // Federal safety regulators disclosed problems Tuesday with oil and other hazardous liquid pipelines at seven major river crossings and hundreds of smaller crossings in Montana and northern Wyoming, problems that could put...
Nov 16 2011 // Two oil spill compensation offices in the Florida Panhandle are closing.The Pensacola and Panama City Beach offices of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility closed Tuesday. Offices in Fort Walton Beach and Apalachicola will...
Nov 16 2011 // A federal judge rejected BP Plc’s bid to use insurance coverage from Transocean Ltd to cover costs stemming from last year’s record oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.Tuesday’s decision by U.S. District...
Nov 14 2011 // A federal judge Monday said Alabama and Louisiana may seek punitive damages from companies including BP Plc for damages arising from last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.The decision by U.S....
Nov 10 2011 // BP will no longer be responsible for cleaning up oil that washes up on the Gulf Coast unless officials can prove it comes from the company’s well that blew out in 2010, causing the worst offshore spill in U.S....
Nov 9 2011 // Federal researchers are looking for cleanup workers willing to participate in a $17.8 million study of long-term health effects from last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill.They want to interview more than 50,000...