Latest Energy Headlines
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Court Ruling on Well Co-Ownership Could Cost BP, Anadarko Billions in Fines
Jun 5 2014 // BP Plc and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. could face billions of dollars in fines after an appeals court ruled they were automatically liable for pollution-law violations as co-owners of the well that blew out and started the...
Hawaii Ahead Of Many States On Obama Climate Goal
Jun 4 2014 // Hawaii is ahead most other states in accomplishing President Barack Obama’s goals to cut carbon levels. The Obama administration announced a plan Monday to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants nationwide by...
Hash Oil Suspected Behind Blaze at California Complex
Jun 3 2014 // A hash oil operation is suspected in an explosion that burned a man and several units of a Redding, Calif. apartment complex during the weekend. The Record Searchlight newspaper reported the 9:30 a.m. Sunday blast and...
Bill to Derail Louisiana Levee Board’s Oil Lawsuit Heads to Governor
Jun 2 2014 // The oil and gas industry won a significant victory in the Louisiana Legislature, receiving final passage of a bill that seeks to kill a lawsuit filed by a New Orleans area levee board against nearly 100 oil and gas...
CN Rail Sees U.S. Banning Older Rail Tank Cars for Oil in 3-5 Years
May 30 2014 // Canadian National Railway Chief Executive Claude Mongeau said on Thursday he expects U.S. regulators to phase out use of DOT-111 tank cars in three to five years, following a deadly explosion in Quebec last year. Mongeau...
North Dakota Tornado Tears Through Oil Patch, Injures 9, Destroys Trailers
May 28 2014 // Investigators headed to western North Dakota on May 27 to assess the strength of a tornado that injured nine people, including a 15-year-old girl who suffered critical injuries, and damaged or destroyed 15 trailers at a...
North Carolina Senate Votes to Make Disclosure of Fracking Chemicals Illegal
May 23 2014 // The North Carolina Senate on Thursday voted to make it a crime to disclose the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, even as big U.S. oil companies elsewhere consider releasing more information about the...
BP to Appeal Oil Spill Claims Settlement to Supreme Court
May 22 2014 // BP Plc, seeking to avoid paying what it says would be billions of dollars in unjustified claims, will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a court order on a settlement tied to its 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. “No...
ProSight Specialty Expands Energy Market Coverage with Three New Programs
May 21 2014 // ProSight Specialty Insurance is expanding its reach in the energy market with the launch of three new insurance programs designed for the business needs and exposures of solar energy contractors, propane and fuel dealers,...
Appeals Court Won’t Rehear BP Gulf Settlement Issue
May 21 2014 // A federal appeals court has refused to reconsider its previous ruling that businesses don’t have to prove they were directly harmed by BP’s 2010 Gulf Of Mexico oil spill to collect settlement payments. The...
Court Rejects BP Bid to Limit Oil Spill Claims
May 20 2014 // BP Plc faces billions of dollars in additional payments after failing to convince an appeals court that the company is being forced to pay claims that aren’t directly related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. A...
Safety Agency to Probe Fracking Risks After Deaths of 4 Workers
May 20 2014 // The Obama administration is investigating the health risks of hydraulic fracturing after at least four deaths among oilfield workers since 2010 in North Dakota and Montana. The National Institute for Occupational Safety...
Broken Pipeline Spills Crude Into Los Angeles Neighborhood
May 16 2014 // A faulty valve at a petroleum pipeline pump station ruptured early on Thursday in an industrial corner of Los Angeles, spewing crude oil 40 feet (12 meters) into the air, onto the roof of a strip club next door, and...
Canada Imposes ‘Absolute Liability’ Rules on Pipeline Spills
May 16 2014 // Canada unveiled new rules on Wednesday to enhance pipeline safety and spill response, ahead of the development of new projects proposed to carry crude from Alberta’s oil sands to coastal ports for export. The new...
‘Degassing’ North Dakota Crude Oil Before Shipping Among Safety Ideas
May 14 2014 // After a spate of fiery derailments, the scramble to make North Dakota’s Bakken crude oil safer when it’s being transported on trains has focused on better tracks, slower speeds, and reinforced railcars that...
Vietnam Protests Over China Oil Rig Damage Taiwan-Owned Factories
May 14 2014 // Anti-China rallies sparked by the placement of an oil rig in waters near Vietnam damaged factories owned by Taiwanese companies, with some plants closing as Vietnam detained hundreds of protesters. Vietnam’s...
Following Derailment Union Pacific Line in Colorado Up and Running
May 12 2014 // U.S. railroad company Union Pacific Corp said on Monday that a rail line on which a train derailed near the town of LaSalle in northern Colorado was back in service. The train, which was heading to an East Coast...
North Dakota Oil Boom Brings Surge in Worker Fatalities
May 12 2014 // Oil and gas workers in North Dakota are six times more likely to die on the job than their peers in other states as inexperienced workers join the state’s oil and gas boom, according to a report by a labor group. In...
North Dakota Tries to Stem Oil Region Traffic Deaths
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...
Railroads Now Required to Alert States When Shipping Oil
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...
