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Nigerian Oil Producer Sues Shell for More Than $2B Over Ownership of Wells
Oct 7 2021 // A Nigerian oil producer sued Royal Dutch Shell Plc for more than $2 billion over the ownership of oil wells, intensifying a dispute around an asset sale completed six years ago. Aiteo Eastern E&P Co. Ltd. claims that...
Slow Response to Report of California Oil Spill, Records Show
Oct 6 2021 // The U.S. Coast Guard received the first report of a possible oil spill off the Southern California coast more than 12 hours before a company reported the major leak in its pipeline and a cleanup effort was launched,...
Officials Probe If Ship Anchor Caused California Oil Spill as Cleanup Continues
Oct 4 2021 // More oil from a massive offshore spill landed on the southern California shore on Monday, with beaches closed and dead fish and birds washing up on shore as officials investigated whether a ship anchor striking a pipeline...
California Oil Spill Called ‘Environmental Catastrophe’
Oct 4 2021 // HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.— A large oil spill off the southern California coast left fish dead, birds mired in petroleum and wetlands contaminated, in what local officials called an environmental catastrophe. The U.S....
Company to Pay $15M in Fines in North Dakota Oil Spill Case
Sep 28 2021 // The company responsible for the largest oil field spill in North Dakota pleaded guilty to criminal charges after reaching an agreement with the federal government to pay $15 million in fines. Summit Midstream Partners...
Damage from Hurricane Ida to Cut Shell Oil Production Until Early Next Year
Sep 21 2021 // Royal Dutch Shell, the largest U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil producer, said damage to offshore transfer facilities from Hurricane Ida will cut production into early next year, slashing deliveries of a type of crude oil prized by...
After Ida Gulf Coast Oil Spill, Divers Put Containment Dome on Pipeline
Sep 10 2021 // The company overseeing the response to a large oil spill spurred by Hurricane Ida said that a containment dome has been placed over a broken undersea pipeline, stemming the flow into the Gulf of Mexico. Houston-based Talos...
Thanks to Oil Boom, N. Dakota County Sees Fastest Growth in US
Sep 8 2021 // First came the roughnecks and other oil field workers, almost all men. Lured by steady wages as the nation climbed out of the Great Recession, they filled McKenzie County’s few motel rooms, then began sleeping in...
State Recommends More Evacuations After Detroit-Area Fuel Leak
Sep 7 2021 // On Sept. 5, state officials in Michigan recommended more home evacuations in a Detroit suburb following an earlier fuel leak at the Ford Flat Rock Assembly Plant that spread flammable vapor in sewers. Response teams were...
U.S. Probing Nearly 350 Reports of Oil Spills in Hurricane Ida’s Wake
Sep 7 2021 // The U.S. Coast Guard said on Sept. 6 it was investigating nearly 350 reports of oil spills in and along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico in the wake of Hurricane Ida. Ida’s 150 mile-per-hour (240 kph) winds wreaked havoc on...
Black Slick Seen in Water Near Gulf Oil Rig After Ida
Sep 3 2021 // Photos show what appears to be a miles-long oil slick near an offshore rig in the Gulf of Mexico after Hurricane Ida, according to aerial survey imagery released Sept. 1 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
Floods, Outages Stall Oil Companies’ Efforts to Restart After Hurricane Ida
Aug 31 2021 // Widespread flooding from Hurricane Ida and power outages slowed efforts on Tuesday by energy firms to assess damages at oil production facilities, ports and refineries. Nearly all of Louisiana lost electrical power on...
Insurers Need to Accelerate Exit From Oil & Gas Industry to Meet Climate Goals: Report
Aug 26 2021 // For the insurance industry to fulfill its stated commitment to combat climate change, it may want to accelerate its efforts to exit the oil and gas industry. To date, just one insurer has promised to take...
Fire on Mexico’s Pemex Offshore Oil Platform Kills at Least 5 Workers, Cuts Production
Aug 24 2021 // MEXICO CITY – Five workers were killed and six injured in Sunday’s fire on an offshore platform in the southern Gulf of Mexico operated by Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) that cut about a quarter of Mexico’s oil...
Shell to Pay $111 Million to Resolve Long-Running Oil-Spill Dispute in Nigeria
Aug 17 2021 // Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s Nigerian unit agreed to pay a local community $111 million to resolve a long-running dispute over an oil spill that occurred more than half a century ago. The Anglo-Dutch energy giant will pay...
Panel Revives Jurisdictional Question in Louisiana Suits Against Oil Giants
Aug 9 2021 // The question of whether lawsuits blaming big oil companies for loss of vulnerable Louisiana coastal wetlands will be tried in state courts, as local parish governments want, or in federal courts, as the oil companies want,...
Shipwreck Cleanup Leaks Oil Onto Popular Georgia Beach
Aug 4 2021 // More oil gushed into the water Monday from the remains of an overturned cargo ship being dismantled along the coast of Georgia, where dozens of workers were still busy cleaning up thick bands of blackened sand from a...
Forgotten Oil and Gas Wells Lingering, Leaking Toxic Chemicals
Aug 3 2021 // Rusted pipes litter the sandy fields of Ashley Williams Watt’s cattle ranch in windswept West Texas. The corroded skeletons are all that remain of hundreds of abandoned oil wells that were drilled long before her...
A Week Later, Oil Well Fire Still Burns in North Dakota
Jul 29 2021 // The operator of an oil well pad where a fire has been burning since last week in McKenzie County has brought in a specialized emergency response crew to get a handle on the blaze. The well pad is located on federal land...
Worker Shortage Hampers North Dakota Oil Production
Jul 23 2021 // Oil production is flat in North Dakota due to a workforce shortage as the industry recovers from the coronavirus pandemic. Companies say they are in need of workers to inject water, sand and chemicals down wells to crack...
