Latest Energy Headlines
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Workplace Deaths Rise In North Dakota Oil Patch
Dec 26 2012 // North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency is offering safety training to companies in the state’s booming oil patch, an effort to decrease job-related deaths and injuries happening most often to...
Montana Lawmakers Want Pipeline Study Finished
Dec 26 2012 // Two U.S. senators from Montana are urging federal safety regulators to wrap up a yearlong study into whether oil spills into rivers, lakes and other water bodies across the U.S. have resulted from inadequately buried...
Conocophillips Reaches Deals Over Alaska Spills
Dec 20 2012 // ConocoPhillips has agreed to federal and state civil penalties of about $200,000 for spills of crude oil and contaminated water from corroded pipe in Alaska’s Kuparuk Oil Field in 2006 and 2007. ConocoPhillips Alaska...
Louisiana Levies More Fines Against Texas Brine over Sinkhole
Dec 19 2012 // The Louisiana Office of Conservation has levied an additional $160,000 fine against Texas Brine Co. LLC. over a massive sinkhole. Commissioner James Welsh said the fine levied Dec. 17 is for continued failure to comply...
States Plan to Sue EPA Over Greenhouse Gas Regulations
Dec 12 2012 // A coalition of seven eastern states led by New York plans to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to issue new guidelines to curb methane emissions, a greenhouse gas that may be linked to climate...
Gas Marketers Sue To Block Wyoming School’s Fuel Sales
Dec 11 2012 // Petroleum retailers are suing a western Wyoming school district for selling compressed natural gas as fuel. The Colorado Wyoming Petroleum Marketers Association argues that Sublette County School District 1 in Pinedale is...
SEC Charges Oil CEO in Insider Trading With Colorado Insurance Exec
Nov 28 2012 // The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday announced charges against the former CEO of a Denver, Colo.-based oil-and-gas company at the center of an insider trading scheme involving a Colorado insurance executive...
BP to Pay $4.5 Billion to U.S. for Gulf Oil Spill
Nov 15 2012 // BP Plc will pay $4.5 billion in penalties and plead guilty to felony misconduct in the Deepwater Horizon disaster that caused the worst offshore oil spill in the country’s history, the company said on Thursday. The...
Iran Oil Liability Fears Grow as Insurance Ban Bites
Nov 15 2012 // A ban on European Union insurers covering Iranian oil exports has forced ship owners to fall back on new, untested insurance providers, raising fears that governments may have to pay in the event of an oil spill. The July...
Alabama Groups Share $8 Million in BP Oil Spill Funds
Nov 12 2012 // Nearly two dozen groups in Alabama will share more than $8 million in oil spill funds to promote Gulf Coast tourism and seafood. The administrator of the claims process for the 2010 oil spill, Patrick Juneau, announced the...
Plaintiffs, BP Urge Judge to Approve $7.8 Billion Oil Spill Settlement
Nov 9 2012 // BP Plc and lawyers representing over 100,000 individuals and businesses claiming economic and medical damages from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill on Thursday urged a U.S. judge to approve a proposed $7.8 billion...
Election Gamble Backfires for Financial, Energy Firms: Commentary
Nov 7 2012 // “Elections have consequences, and Eric, I won,” President Barack Obama famously told House Republican Whip Eric Cantor shortly after his first inauguration in January 2009. Four years later, Wall Street as well...
Driver of Oil Pipe Truck Charged in Arkansas Death
Nov 5 2012 // The driver of an oil field truck has been charged with negligent homicide for the death of a 95-year-old woman who was killed when she drove into a length of pipe that protruded behind the rig. Authorities on Friday...
BP Oil Spill Trial Delayed Until February
Nov 5 2012 // A federal judge has delayed until February 2013 the start of a massive trial to determine liability from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, citing tourist events that will keep New Orleans’ hotels booked. U.S....
Hotel Shortage Means Delay in BP Oil Spill Trial
Nov 5 2012 // A federal judge delayed until February 2013 the start of a massive trial to determine liability from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, citing tourist events that will keep New Orleans’ hotels booked. U.S....
Oil Spill Claims Process May Sink Gulf Coast Shrimp Processors
Nov 1 2012 // With looming legal deadlines related to the 2010 BP oil spill, dozens of shrimp processors along the Gulf Coast face a difficult dilemma, with either decision having the potential to jeopardize the future of their...
BP Oil Spill Settlement Unlikely Before Election
Oct 29 2012 // For a president locked in a tough re-election fight, it may look like political gold: a settlement between the U.S. Justice Department and BP Plc over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that could send billions of dollars to...
Hotel Shortage Means Delay in BP Oil Spill Trial Until February
Oct 26 2012 // A federal judge on Friday delayed until February 2013 the start of a massive trial to determine liability from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, citing tourist events that will keep New Orleans’ hotels...
U.S. Trial Set in Chevron Fraud Case Against Ecuador Lawyers
Oct 22 2012 // A U.S. trial has been set for next fall in a Chevron Corp lawsuit that accuses Ecuadorean residents, their lawyers, and advisers of fraud in obtaining a $19 billion pollution award against the U.S. oil company. U.S....
Trial Underway for 4 Accused of Sinking Oil Tanker, Polluting Spain Coast
Oct 19 2012 // Four people went on trial this week for their role in the sinking of an oil tanker in Spain’s northwestern coast in 2002, triggering one of Europe’s biggest environmental catastrophes. The defendants include...
