Latest Oil Gas Headlines
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Trump Administration Seeks to Ease Offshore Drilling Safety Rules
Dec 29 2017 // The U.S. Interior Department on Thursday proposed eliminating some safety regulations for offshore oil and gas drilling that the Obama administration put in place after BP’s massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a move...
Oil Company Destroyed by Fire in International Falls, Minnesota
Dec 20 2017 // A massive fire in northern Minnesota has destroyed a heating oil and fuel company near the Canadian border. Rainy Lake Oil Co. erupted in huge balls of fire fueled by eight or nine tanks inside the company’s...
A.M. Best Upgrades Outlooks for Petroleum Marketers Management Insurance
Dec 13 2017 // A.M. Best has revised the outlooks to positive from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating “a-” of Des Moines, Iowa-based Petroleum Marketers...
Judge Orders Creation of Spill Response Plan for Dakota Access Pipeline
Dec 6 2017 // A federal has judge ordered Energy Transfer Partners LP to coordinate with local tribes and the Army Corps of Engineers to create an oil-spill response plan for the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline by next April, a...
Exxon Takes Climate-Change Probe Fight to Massachusetts Top Court
Dec 6 2017 // Exxon Mobil Corp urged Massachusetts’ top court on Tuesday to block the state’s attorney general from obtaining records to investigate whether the company for decades concealed its knowledge of the role fossil...
New Sensors Tracking Earthquakes Across Texas
Nov 29 2017 // Note: This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune. Three years ago, a series of quakes rattled North Texas — and some residents’ nerves. Larry Walden, a Parker County commissioner, remembers a public...
Michigan, Enbridge Reach Deal to Boost Pipeline Safety
Nov 29 2017 // Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and Canadian oil transport company Enbridge Inc. announced a timeline for determining the future of twin pipelines beneath the channel where Lakes Huron and Michigan converge. Options include...
Supreme Court Conservative Justices Raise Doubts About U.S. Patent Review Process
Nov 28 2017 // U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared divided over whether a federal agency’s in-house process for challenging patents violates the constitutional rights of patent owners, leaving the fate of a system that...
Testimony: Former Oklahoma Seismologist Felt Pressured not to Link Quakes, Oil and Gas
Nov 16 2017 // Oklahoma’s former lead seismologist says he felt pressured by an official at the University of Oklahoma to not link the state’s surge in earthquakes to oil and gas production. The Tulsa World reports that...
Coast Guard: 2 Workers Injured in Fire on Oil Platform off Louisiana Coast
Nov 9 2017 // Two workers were injured when a fire broke out on an oil production platform in the Gulf of Mexico early Wednesday, according to a Coast Guard spokeswoman. Coast Guard Petty Officer Lexie Preston said 46 workers were...
Company Wants More Time to Settle Suit Over 13-Year-Old Oil Leak in Gulf
Nov 6 2017 // A New Orleans-based company that has failed to stop a 13-year-old oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is asking for more time to negotiate a settlement that could allow it to recover millions of dollars it set aside for work to...
Despite Earthquake Risk, UK Ready to Begin Fracking – Again
Nov 6 2017 // Six years after Britain’s first fracking operation was stymied by earth tremors, its shale gas industry is poised to try again with a technology that could transform the UK gas market and drastically reduce its...
Study Links Colorado, New Mexico Quakes to Oil and Gas Fluid Injections
Oct 26 2017 // A rash of earthquakes in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico between 2008 and 2010 was likely due to fluids pumped deep underground during oil and gas wastewater disposal, according to a study from Colorado...
In ‘Energy City’ USA, Hurricane Harvey’s Fury Lingers
Oct 19 2017 // It took five weeks for the largest U.S. oil refinery to get back to normal after Hurricane Harvey. It’s taking Port Arthur, Texas, a lot longer. Nearly two months after Harvey inundated Port Arthur, a crucial hub of...
Fire at Large California Oil Refinery Doused
Oct 19 2017 // A fire that erupted at the West Coast’s largest oil refinery threatened storage tanks and sent huge flames into the sky and black smoke across neighborhoods before crews quickly smothered it. Dozens of firefighters...
New Rules for Oil-Gas Lines Proposed Following Colorado Blast
Oct 19 2017 // Colorado energy regulators are proposing tighter rules for shutting down oil and gas pipelines after a fatal explosion blamed on natural gas leaking from a line that was thought to be out of service but was still connected...
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Stirs Comparison to BP Disaster
Oct 17 2017 // An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last week may be the largest in the U.S. since the 2010 blowout at BP Plc’s Macondo well that sank the Deepwater Horizon rig. The Delta House floating production facility about 40...
Louisiana Oil Platform Explodes; Search Continues for Missing Worker
Oct 16 2017 // The search continued for a worker missing from an oil production platform in Louisiana’s Lake Pontchartrain that exploded and caught fire late Sunday, sending six others to hospital with injuries, the U.S. Coast...
Estimated $2.5 Billion Gulf Coast Damage from Nate Less Than First Feared
Oct 7 2017 // Oil companies were heading back into the Gulf of Mexico and working to restore operations after Hurricane Nate fizzled out over the U.S. South on Sunday. While an estimated 93 percent of U.S. oil production in the Gulf was...
Gulf Coast on Hurricane Watch As Tropical Storm Nate Strengthens
Oct 6 2017 // Tropical Storm Nate, which has already shut oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, strengthened as it continued north on a path that’ll bring it ashore in the U.S. by week’s end. Nate was about 115 miles...
