Latest Energy Headlines
All the headlines from our Energy Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Louisiana Won’t Disclose Oil Train Transport Records
Jul 9 2014 // Louisiana officials are refusing to disclose the details of crude oil shipments railroads haul through the state. The state Department of Public Safety and Corrections says the information freight railroads are required to...
Kansas Court: Travel ‘Intrinsic’ to Oil Field Work, Comp Benefits Apply
Jul 7 2014 // Kansas’ highest court reversed a state appeals court finding that an oil field worker was not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits after he was injured while riding home from his workplace. The nature of...
North Dakota Regulator Urges State Monitoring of Oil Trains
Jun 30 2014 // North Dakota should employ its own railroad safety inspectors to help the federal government monitor crude oil shipments coming from the state’s booming oil patch, a state regulator said. Public Service Commissioner...
BP Wants Business to Repay ‘Windfall’ Oil Spill Claim Overayments
Jun 30 2014 // BP Plc has asked a U.S. judge to direct what it called a “vast number” of businesses to repay hundreds of millions of dollars it says were wrongly awarded as compensation on claims stemming from the 2010 Gulf...
Surge in Oklahoma Quakes Has Residents Seeking Answers
Jun 27 2014 // Oklahoma residents whose homes and nerves have been shaken by an upsurge in earthquakes want to know what’s causing the temblors — and what can be done to stop them. Hundreds of people were expected to turn out in...
Oklahoma Insurance, Commerce Commissioners to Be Decided in Primary
Jun 23 2014 // Voters in the Republican primary in Oklahoma will decide who will be the state’s next regulators of both the insurance industry and a wide range of other businesses overseen by the three-member Oklahoma Corporation...
New Ohio Drilling Policy May Be Good for Oil & Gas, Insurance Industries
Jun 20 2014 // Ohio in mid-April 2014 enacted stricter regulations for oil and gas drilling near faults or areas of past seismic activity, a move that some, including insurers, may view as a step in the right direction. The Ohio...
Pennsylvania Sues Oil Companies for MTBE Pollution
Jun 19 2014 // Pennsylvania accused oil companies of polluting the state’s groundwater with a gasoline additive, joining states including New York, Vermont and New Hampshire that have brought similar lawsuits. Two complaints filed...
Kansas Court: Travel ‘Intrinsic’ to Oil Field Work, Comp Benefits Apply
Jun 19 2014 // Kansas highest court reversed a state appeals court finding that an oil field worker was not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits after he was injured while riding home from his workplace. The nature of oil...
If Fracking Is the Question, Insurers May Ask – What Is the Answer?
Jun 19 2014 // When it comes to the use of evolving technologies such as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in oil and gas production one big question insurance companies are faced with is: to insure or not to insure? That is a key...
Top Loss Leaders in the Oil Patch? Commercial Auto, Workers’ Comp
Jun 18 2014 // There’s no doubt that new advancements in the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, are driving the current production boom in the oil patch. The technique, which is used to retrieve oil and gas reservoirs...
Federal Oil Well Inspections Lag in Dakotas
Jun 17 2014 // Federal oilfield inspectors are hustling to clear a backlog of hundreds of uninspected well sites on public and tribal lands in North Dakota, amid the explosion of drilling activity. The Bureau of Land Management, which...
Insurance Capacity for Oil & Gas Is Plentiful but Contract Wording May Be Tricky
Jun 16 2014 // The insurance capacity is there to cover the risks associated with the current oil and gas boom in Texas and the nation, experts say, but agents and their customers should be vigilant in their efforts to understand the...
Judge Sets May 2015 Date for BP Investors’ Suit Over Oil Spill
Jun 16 2014 // A U.S. judge set a May 2015 trial date on Friday for BP Plc to face claims in a lawsuit accusing the company of misleading investors about the severity of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. U.S. District Judge Keith...
Faulty Blowout Preventer Contributed to Deadly BP Spill
Jun 16 2014 // A faulty blowout preventer and weaknesses in how companies analyze potential hazards in offshore oil and gas operations contributed to BP’s deadly Gulf of Mexico oil spill more than four years ago, the U.S. Chemical...
BP, Andarko Must Face Fines for Gulf Oil Spill
Jun 16 2014 // A U.S. appeals court on June 4 said BP Plc and Anadarko Petroleum Corp must face penalties under federal pollution laws in connection with the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which could expose the companies to billions of...
Ohio Requires Seismic Monitors in New Drilling Operations
Jun 16 2014 // The New Policy May Be Good for Drillers and Insurers, Alike Ohio in mid-April 2014 enacted stricter regulations for oil and gas drilling near faults or areas of past seismic activity, a move that some, including insurers,...
BP Engineer Gets New Trial Over Oil Spill Evidence
Jun 13 2014 // A former BP Plc senior engineer found guilty last year of destroying evidence related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill was granted a new trial based on his claim of juror misconduct during deliberations. Kurt Mix was...
Vermont AG Sues 2 Dozen U.S. Refiners Over Pollution
Jun 6 2014 // BP Plc, Chevron Corp. and Exxon Mobil Corp. are among two dozen U.S. refiners sued by Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell and accused of polluting the state’s groundwater with a gasoline additive. Sorrell filed...
Louisiana AG: Governor Should Veto Bill Killing Oil Lawsuit
Jun 5 2014 // Louisiana’s top attorney has recommended that Gov. Bobby Jindal veto a bill aimed at killing a lawsuit filed by a southeast Louisiana levee board against 97 oil and gas companies over damage to the state’s...
