Latest Energy Headlines
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7 Charged With Filing False Gulf Oil Spill Claims
Aug 29 2013 // Federal prosecutors are charging seven people with mail fraud and false claims related to the BP oil spill. U.S. Attorney Pamela Marsh said that five of those charged had been employees at a Pensacola Beach restaurant...
Judge Denies BP’s Bid to Halt Gulf Oil Spill Payments Pending Investigation
Aug 28 2013 // BP Plc lost a renewed bid to suspend payments from the court-supervised program administering its settlement of claims tied to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. An investigation of alleged wrongdoing at the Mobile,...
Arkansas Lawsuits Test Fracking Wastewater Link to Quakes
Aug 27 2013 // Tony Davis, a 54-year-old construction worker in central Arkansas, said he welcomed the boom in natural gas drilling that brought jobs and new businesses to his hometown starting about a decade ago. But that was before the...
Gulf Oil Spill Claims Chief Disputes BP Misconduct Charges
Aug 27 2013 // BP Plc’s allegations of misconduct in the program set up to pay claims in the settlement over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill were called unfounded by the administrator of the program. Patrick Juneau, the...
BP Oil Spill Claims Deadline Likely to Be Extended
Aug 23 2013 // The April 2014 deadline for compensation claims against BP over its U.S. oil spill is almost certain to be extended, say both side of the legal settlement that governs payouts, possibly into 2015. The last date for claims,...
Louisiana Flood Board Votes to Continue Oil, Gas Lawsuit
Aug 20 2013 // A New Orleans-area flood control board has refused to back down from its lawsuit seeking damages from nearly 100 oil and gas companies over coastal erosion allegedly caused by dredging and digging for canals and pipelines....
Philippine Death Toll Rises in Worst Sea Tragedy in Five Years
Aug 19 2013 // Philippine authorities said the death toll from the collision of a passenger ferry and a cargo ship in Cebu province has increased to 52, making it the worst such tragedy for the country since June 2008. Sixty-eight people...
Quebec Demands CP Railway Help Pay for Disaster Clean-up
Aug 16 2013 // The Canadian province of Quebec has ordered Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd to help pay clean-up costs after a train disaster that killed 47 people and said on Thursday the company has no choice in the matter. The disaster,...
Flood Official: Oil Companies ‘Trashed the Hotel Room’
Aug 15 2013 // A Louisiana flood control official is likening the oil and gas industry in coastal Louisiana to rock stars who bring a lot of money to the area but, in his words, “trashed the hotel room.” Stephen Estopinal was...
Evacuations Start at Some U.S. Gulf Offshore Operations on Storm Threat
Aug 15 2013 // Some Gulf of Mexico oil and gas operators began evacuating workers from offshore facilities on Thursday as a low-pressure system threatened to strengthen into a cyclone. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Thursday...
Iran Detains Tanker Carrying Iraqi Crude Oil to India
Aug 15 2013 // An Indian ship carrying Iraqi crude has been detained by Iran in its territorial waters due to pollution concerns, the head of the refiner buying the oil and India’s shipping directorate said on Thursday. The Desh...
Atlantic Hurricane Season to Enter Most Active Phase Next Week
Aug 14 2013 // The Atlantic hurricane season is about to enter its most active phase as conditions for the powerful storms improve across the basin. Wind shear that can tear budding storms apart has been decreasing, said Dan Kottlowski,...
India’s MRPL to Receive Iranian Oil Cargo after 4-Month Gap
Aug 13 2013 // India’s Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd said on Monday it expects to receive an Iranian oil cargo by the end of this week, the firm’s first purchase from the sanctions-hit nation since April. The...
Railway in Quebec Train Disaster Gets Canada Bankruptcy Protection
Aug 9 2013 // The U.S. railway whose runaway train killed 47 people in a tiny Quebec town last month was granted bankruptcy protection from a Canadian court on Thursday and took steps in that direction in a U.S. court as well. Montreal...
BP Ordered to Pay $130M Operating Costs of Gulf Oil Spill Claims Program
Aug 8 2013 // BP Plc must pay $130 million to a court-appointed administrator overseeing payments to thousands of people who claimed they were hurt by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday, in a fresh...
MMA Railway to Stop Transporting Oil after Quebec Crash
Aug 7 2013 // The Montreal, Maine and Atlantic (MMA) railway company will stop transporting oil after a runaway oil tanker train derailed and exploded in a small Quebec town last month, killing 47 people, MMA Chairman Ed Burkhardt said...
BP Says Rejection of Oil Spill Claims Appeals Could Scuttle Settlement
Aug 5 2013 // The settlement BP Plc reached last year with most private parties over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill could be scuttled if a U.S. appeals court doesn’t throw out the interpretation of payments being used by the...
Oil Explosion in Quebec Train Crash ‘Abnormal’ Says Investigator
Aug 2 2013 // As investigators seek reasons for the deadly train crash in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, last month and the huge “abnormal” fire it caused, they are focusing on the nature of the fuel cargo as well as the brakes,...
CP Rail Subcontracted to MMA in Quebec Train Crash; Coverage an Issue
Aug 1 2013 // Canadian Pacific Railway, hired to transport oil from North Dakota to New Brunswick, subcontracted part of the job to the small railroad involved in the deadly crash in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, the company that chose the...
U.S. Safety Rule for Oil Trains Delayed for Year
Jul 31 2013 // The Obama administration has delayed by nearly a year a plan to boost safety standards for the type of rail car involved in a fiery explosion that killed at least 47 people in Canada this month. Officials began work on the...
