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Storage Tank Spills At Least 1K Gallons of Oil Into North Carolina River
Feb 9 2018 // At least 1,000 gallons of petroleum fuel has spilled into a river in North Carolina. The Asheville-Citizen Times reports authorities have warned people to stay out of the French Broad River following Sunday’s spill...
Group Urges SEC Probe of California, Cites Climate Hypocrisy
Feb 7 2018 // California officials are downplaying the risks of climate change to bond investors while citing those same risks as the basis for a lawsuit against oil companies, according to a conservative think tank that has asked...
Oklahoma’s Supreme Court Says Oil Company Can Be Sued After Worker Injury or Death
Feb 5 2018 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled that oil and natural gas companies can be sued when a worker is killed or injured on the job. The state’s highest court struck down a state workers’ compensation law that...
Louisiana Oil Spill Near Where Young Whooping Cranes Released
Feb 2 2018 // The Coast Guard says nearly 1,300 gallons of oil spilled from an oil production facility into southwest Louisiana wetlands near the areas where young endangered whooping cranes are released into the wild None of...
Study Finds Oklahoma’s Earthquakes Strongly Linked to Wastewater Injection Depth
Feb 2 2018 // A huge increase in the number of man-made earthquakes in Oklahoma, is strongly linked to the depth at which wastewater from the oil and gas industry is injected into the ground, according to a new study involving the...
Legal Marijuana Worries Canadian Oil Companies with Strict Drug Testing Regimes
Feb 1 2018 // Once recreational marijuana becomes legal in Canada, Garnet Amundson says it will get a lot harder to find the workers he needs at Essential Energy Services Ltd. And he isn’t the only employer who’s...
Oil Tanker Disaster to Be Probed by Maritime Authorities from China, Panama, Iran & HK
Jan 26 2018 // The maritime authorities of China, Panama, Iran and Hong Kong on Thursday signed an agreement to jointly investigate a collision in the East China Sea that caused the worst oil ship disaster in decades, according to...
Driller in Oklahoma Oil Well Explosion Has History of Fatal Accidents
Jan 25 2018 // Ten workers have died over the past decade at well sites linked to drilling contractor Patterson-UTI, the same driller involved in this week’s rig explosion in Oklahoma that killed five workers, federal records...
California Sues Trump Administration Fracking Rule Repeal
Jan 25 2018 // California on Wednesday sued the Trump administration over its repeal of Obama-era rules meant to address public safety concerns on hydraulic fracturing, the process known as fracking that is used to extract oil and...
Oklahoma’s High Court: Oil Company Can Be Sued After Worker Injury or Death
Jan 24 2018 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled that oil and natural gas companies can be sued when a worker is killed or injured on the job. The state’s highest court struck down a state workers’ compensation law that...
Five Bodies Recovered After Oklahoma Oil Well Explodes
Jan 24 2018 // The bodies of five people killed in an Oklahoma oil well explosion were recovered on Tuesday afternoon in a building adjacent to the drilling site outside of Quinton, Oklahoma, Pittsburg County Sheriff Chris Morris said at...
No Initial Sign that Sunken Iran Oil Tanker Breached Safety Protocols: Panama
Jan 22 2018 // The Iranian tanker that sank after a collision in the East China Sea, causing the worst oil ship disaster in years, had its paperwork in order, according an initial review by maritime authorities in Panama, whose flag it...
Fifth Circuit Court Says State, not Maritime, Law Applies in Drilling Services Injury Case
Jan 22 2018 // The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans has reversed the previous findings of its own panel and a lower court in ruling that state, not maritime, law applies in a case involving a worker injury at an oil and gas...
NTSB: Broken Wheel Caused 2015 North Dakota Oil Train Wreck
Jan 22 2018 // Federal investigators believe a broken wheel caused a May 2015 oil train derailment that prompted the evacuation of Heimdal, North Dakota. The National Transportation Safety Board says in a recently released report that...
Oil from Sunken Iran Tanker Diffuses into 4 Separate Slicks
Jan 18 2018 // Oil from an Iranian tanker that sank in the East China Sea has diffused into four separate slicks, covering a combined area of just over 100 square kms (39 square miles), Chinese authorites said late on Wednesday. Earlier...
Iran Oil Tanker Creates Oil Slicks Covering 42 Square Miles: Chinese Government
Jan 17 2018 // An Iranian oil tanker that sank in the East China Sea has left two oil slicks covering a combined 109 square km (42 square miles), the Chinese government said late on Tuesday, as maritime police scour for damage and...
NTSB: Broken Wheel Caused 2015 Oil Train Wreck in North Dakota
Jan 16 2018 // Federal investigators believe a broken wheel caused a May 2015 oil train derailment that prompted the evacuation of Heimdal, North Dakota. The National Transportation Safety Board says investigators found a mark on the...
BP Still Paying Gulf Oil Spill Claims as Court Battles Wind Down
Jan 16 2018 // BP Plc raised the amount it will pay this year for the Deepwater Horizon accident as thousands of lawsuits related to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history start to wind down. The 2010 explosion at a well in the Gulf of...
Update: Sunken Iranian Oil Tanker Causes Large Oil Slick in East China Sea
Jan 15 2018 // A stricken Iranian tanker that sank in the East China Sea on Sunday in the worst oil ship disaster in decades has produced a large oil slick, Chinese media and Japanese authorities said on Monday, as worries grew over...
Explosions Continue on Iranian Oil Tanker, Hampering Rescue Efforts
Jan 12 2018 // A stricken Iranian oil tanker continued exploding on Friday, hampering rescue efforts, Chinese state media reported, as Japan’s Coast Guard said the ship drifted away from the Chinese coast and into Japan’s...
