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OSHA Investigating Kansas Oil-Drilling Blast That Injured 5
Dec 16 2016 // Federal workplace safety officials are investigating a western Kansas oil field explosion that injured five workers, two of them critically. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...
Possible Petroleum Contamination Prompts Tap Water Warning in Corpus Christi
Dec 16 2016 // Corpus Christi, a Texas Gulf Coast city, is warning its 320,000 residents not to use tap water because it might be contaminated with petroleum-based chemicals, prompting a rush on bottled water and the closure of local...
Cleanup Ongoing after North Dakota Pipeline Oil Spill
Dec 14 2016 // Roughly a third of the more than 3,000 barrels of oil that spilled into a North Dakota creek following a pipeline leak last week has been recovered, a local official said. An estimated 4,200 barrels of oil leaked from the...
Oklahoma Residents Sue Companies over Mag 5.0 Quake in Cushing
Dec 7 2016 // Five companies are being sued over a magnitude 5.0 earthquake at Cushing, Oklahoma. The lawsuit filed by David and Myra Reid, Valerie Branyan and Timothy Harris names White Star Petroleum, Crown Energy Company,...
Cleanup Costs of Oregon Train Derailment Along River Pilling Up
Dec 6 2016 // Six months after a train hauling Bakken crude oil derailed along the Columbia River Gorge, Washington, Oregon and other officials are still tabulating a bill to send to Union Pacific Railroad. Union Pacific said in a...
Residents, Pawnee Nation File Suits Following 5.8 Mag Quake
Dec 5 2016 // Residents of Pawnee, Okla., have filed suit in district court against 27 energy companies, saying they operate wastewater injection wells even though they know the method causes earthquakes. The lawsuit seeks an...
2 New Earthquakes Recorded near Oklahoma Oil Hub
Nov 23 2016 // Two earthquakes recorded within one minute of each other have shaken an area in north-central Oklahoma near the site near of a key oil hub. The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquakes occurred Nov. 22 in Cushing in...
Rejecting Science, Texas Still Denies Fracking Link to Quakes
Nov 22 2016 // A white Chevy Suburban with “Railroad Commission of Texas” emblazoned on its side rolled north on Interstate 35. Behind the wheel sat Milton Rister, the commission’s director. Trim and balding, Rister was...
27 Energy Companies Sued by Quake-Weary Oklahomans
Nov 21 2016 // Residents of a town hit by Oklahoma’s strongest earthquake have filed a class-action lawsuit against dozens of energy companies, accusing them of triggering destructive temblors by injecting wastewater from oil and...
Rising Earthquake Risks and Oklahoma’s Insurance Market
Nov 21 2016 // The 5.0 magnitude earthquake that struck near the oil and gas storage hub of Cushing, Oklahoma, on Nov. 6 put the nation on alert to the vulnerability of the country’s oil reserves to the significant increase in...
Will Rising Earthquake Risks in Oklahoma Shake Up the Insurance Market?
Nov 14 2016 // The 5.0 magnitude earthquake that struck near the oil and gas storage hub of Cushing, Oklahoma, on Nov. 6 put the nation on alert to the vulnerability of the country’s oil reserves to the significant increase in...
Oklahoma Orders the Shut Down of More Disposal Wells
Nov 10 2016 // The 5.0 magnitude earthquake that occurred near Cushing, Oklahoma on Nov. 6 has prompted state oil and gas regulatory officials to order the shutdown of more underground wastewater disposal wells in the surrounding...
Oklahoma Agency to Limit More Disposal Wells After Oil Hub Earthquake
Nov 8 2016 // Oklahoma’s oil and gas regulator plans to shut some disposal wells and reduce the volume of others as its initial response to Sunday’s earthquake near the oil hub of Cushing. “Other plans are being...
Oklahoma’s Fracking-Linked Earthquakes Raise National Security, Energy Concerns
Nov 8 2016 // Sunday night’s 5.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Cushing, Okla., is the latest and, in some ways, the most troubling in a series of temblors that has rocked the Sooner State over the past few years. Not only did it...
Property Damage Reported After 5.0 Mag Quake Hits Oklahoma near Cushing
Nov 7 2016 // A 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck Oklahoma on the evening of Nov. 6 near the town of Cushing, an area that has experienced increased seismic activity since 2015, the Oklahoma Geological Survey reported. Several...
Alabama Pipeline Explosion Update: 1 Death Reported, Pipeline to Restart Saturday
Nov 2 2016 // This story is an update to an earlier one updating the worker injuries and one fatality. The owner of the biggest U.S. fuel pipeline said it may resume service on its gasoline line at noon local time Saturday after an...
Oil Spill Shuts Down Pipeline in Cushing, Oklahoma
Oct 27 2016 // A Seaway Crude Pipeline Co. pipeline that spilled oil at a storage hub in Oklahoma remained closed on Oct. 25, according to a spokesman for Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners, a 50 percent owner of...
Exxon Heads for Courtroom Faceoff With New York in Climate Change Probe
Oct 25 2016 // Exxon Mobil Corp. is headed to a courtroom in New York for the first time to try to block the state’s demand for accounting documents about how climate change will affect its finances. New York Attorney General Eric...
Western Insurers Slowly Re-Enter Deals with Iran – a Market Valued at $9B
Oct 21 2016 // Western insurers are slowly reaching deals with Iran as they seek to re-enter a multi-billion dollar market although the pace of business is hampered by banking restrictions 10 months on from the lifting of international...
International Shipping Lanes Could Be at Risk from Escalating Yemen Conflict
Oct 11 2016 // Missile attacks from Yemen on Western military craft risk spilling over into nearby busy sea lanes which could disrupt oil supplies and also other vital goods passing through the tense area, shipping and insurance sources...
