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#1 Wildfires Encircle Canada’s Oil-Sands City Amid Hot Weather
Jul 12 2024 // A ring of wildfires has erupted around Canada’s unofficial oil-sands capital of Fort McMurray, adding new threats to crude production from the world’s third-largest petroleum reserves. Eight out-of-control...
#2 Worsening Floods Pose Threat to US Dam Safety
Jul 5 2024 // ST. LOUIS (AP) — Early last week, floodwater in rural Minnesota pushed debris against a more than century-old dam and then carved a path around it, eroding so much of the riverbank that most of a house fell into the...
#3 Two Oil Tankers on Fire in Waters Near Singapore, Crew Members Rescued
Jul 19 2024 // Two large oil tankers were on fire on Friday after colliding near Singapore, the world’s biggest refueling port, with two crew members airlifted to hospital and others rescued from life rafts, authorities and one of...
#4 Canada Insurers Investing in Fossil Fuels as Climate Risks Grow: Shareholder Group
Jul 10 2024 // Canada’s top property and casualty insurers have invested more than C$19.5 billion ($14.30 billion) in fossil fuels production at a time when climate change is driving up risks for the industry, according to a report...
#5 Marathon Oil Reaches $241M Settlement for Air Quality Violations in North Dakota
Jul 16 2024 // The federal government announced a $241.5 million settlement with Marathon Oil last week for alleged air quality violations at the company’s oil and gas operations on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North...
#6 After Oil, Russia May Be Building a Shadow Fleet for Gas
Jun 28 2024 // In the months that followed its invasion of Ukraine and punitive Western restrictions imposed in response, Russia amassed a shadow fleet to ferry its oil around the world. Now there is growing evidence Moscow has begun to...
#7 Crew of Capsized Oil Tanker Off Oman Still Missing, Maritime Center Says
Jul 16 2024 // The 16-strong crew of a Comoros-flagged oil tanker that capsized off Oman are still missing, the country’s maritime security center said on Tuesday, a day after the sinking was reported. The crew of “Prestige...
#8 UK, EU States to Target Russia’s Shadow Oil Fleet With More Checks
Jul 15 2024 // The UK plans to launch a “call to action” this week with a group of European nations to target the so-called shadow fleet of oil tankers that Russia uses to skirt international sanctions, according to people...
#9 Russian Tactics Make Secret Tanker Oil Switching Harder to Trace
Jul 17 2024 // Two near-identical oil tankers trying to beat western sanctions. A secret transfer of Russian crude halfway between Iran and Oman. A supertanker giving a false location. Welcome to the modern trade in Russian petroleum as...
#10 Venezuela Resorts to Using Shadow Tankers to Supply Oil to Ally Cuba
Jun 27 2024 // Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA has begun using tankers that navigate off radar to supply its closest political ally, Cuba, as a fleet of state-owned vessels that have historically covered the route dwindles,...
