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Driller in Oklahoma Oil Well Explosion Has History of Fatal Accidents
Jan 25 2018 // Ten workers have died over the past decade at well sites linked to drilling contractor Patterson-UTI, the same driller involved in this week’s rig explosion in Oklahoma that killed five workers, federal records...
California Sues Trump Administration Fracking Rule Repeal
Jan 25 2018 // California on Wednesday sued the Trump administration over its repeal of Obama-era rules meant to address public safety concerns on hydraulic fracturing, the process known as fracking that is used to extract oil and...
Oklahoma’s High Court: Oil Company Can Be Sued After Worker Injury or Death
Jan 24 2018 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled that oil and natural gas companies can be sued when a worker is killed or injured on the job. The state’s highest court struck down a state workers’ compensation law that...
Five Bodies Recovered After Oklahoma Oil Well Explodes
Jan 24 2018 // The bodies of five people killed in an Oklahoma oil well explosion were recovered on Tuesday afternoon in a building adjacent to the drilling site outside of Quinton, Oklahoma, Pittsburg County Sheriff Chris Morris said at...
No Initial Sign that Sunken Iran Oil Tanker Breached Safety Protocols: Panama
Jan 22 2018 // The Iranian tanker that sank after a collision in the East China Sea, causing the worst oil ship disaster in years, had its paperwork in order, according an initial review by maritime authorities in Panama, whose flag it...
Fifth Circuit Court Says State, not Maritime, Law Applies in Drilling Services Injury Case
Jan 22 2018 // The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans has reversed the previous findings of its own panel and a lower court in ruling that state, not maritime, law applies in a case involving a worker injury at an oil and gas...
NTSB: Broken Wheel Caused 2015 North Dakota Oil Train Wreck
Jan 22 2018 // Federal investigators believe a broken wheel caused a May 2015 oil train derailment that prompted the evacuation of Heimdal, North Dakota. The National Transportation Safety Board says in a recently released report that...
Oil from Sunken Iran Tanker Diffuses into 4 Separate Slicks
Jan 18 2018 // Oil from an Iranian tanker that sank in the East China Sea has diffused into four separate slicks, covering a combined area of just over 100 square kms (39 square miles), Chinese authorites said late on Wednesday. Earlier...
Iran Oil Tanker Creates Oil Slicks Covering 42 Square Miles: Chinese Government
Jan 17 2018 // An Iranian oil tanker that sank in the East China Sea has left two oil slicks covering a combined 109 square km (42 square miles), the Chinese government said late on Tuesday, as maritime police scour for damage and...
NTSB: Broken Wheel Caused 2015 Oil Train Wreck in North Dakota
Jan 16 2018 // Federal investigators believe a broken wheel caused a May 2015 oil train derailment that prompted the evacuation of Heimdal, North Dakota. The National Transportation Safety Board says investigators found a mark on the...
BP Still Paying Gulf Oil Spill Claims as Court Battles Wind Down
Jan 16 2018 // BP Plc raised the amount it will pay this year for the Deepwater Horizon accident as thousands of lawsuits related to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history start to wind down. The 2010 explosion at a well in the Gulf of...
Update: Sunken Iranian Oil Tanker Causes Large Oil Slick in East China Sea
Jan 15 2018 // A stricken Iranian tanker that sank in the East China Sea on Sunday in the worst oil ship disaster in decades has produced a large oil slick, Chinese media and Japanese authorities said on Monday, as worries grew over...
Explosions Continue on Iranian Oil Tanker, Hampering Rescue Efforts
Jan 12 2018 // A stricken Iranian oil tanker continued exploding on Friday, hampering rescue efforts, Chinese state media reported, as Japan’s Coast Guard said the ship drifted away from the Chinese coast and into Japan’s...
Fifth Circuit: State, Not Maritime, Law Applies in Well Services Injury Case
Jan 12 2018 // The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans has reversed the previous findings of its own panel and a lower court, ruling that state, not maritime, law applies in a case involving a worker injury at an oil and gas...
Owner of Blazing Iran Oil Tanker Hopes Crew Alive in Engine Room
Jan 11 2018 // The crew of an Iranian oil tanker set ablaze at the weekend following a collision could still be alive, the vessel’s owner said, calling on the Chinese authorities working at the scene to prioritize a rescue...
New York Sues Fossil Fuel Majors, Plans Divestment from Pension Funds
Jan 11 2018 // New York City announced on Wednesday that it filed a multibillion dollar lawsuit against five top oil companies, citing their “contributions to global warming,” as it said it would divest fossil fuel...
Compensation for Iran Tanker Accident Could Be Complicated by U.S. Sanctions
Jan 11 2018 // The reluctance of foreign banks to deal with Iran could complicate any compensation payments resulting from the collision last week of an Iranian oil tanker and a Chinese cargo ship, sources say. The tanker Sanchi,...
Iranian Oil Tanker Continues to Burn in East China Sea; No Large Scale Spill Expected
Jan 10 2018 // The stricken Iranian oil tanker in the East China Sea could burn for as long as one month, South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries told Reuters on Wednesday, as the blaze raged for a fourth day following a...
Update: High Winds, Toxic Gases Hinder Efforts to Douse Iranian Oil Tanker Fire
Jan 9 2018 // Strong winds, high waves and toxic gases are hindering dozens of rescue boats struggling to locate missing sailors from a stricken oil tanker in the East China Sea and to extinguish a fire that has burned for the past...
Fire Rages on Iranian Oil Tanker After Collision in East China Sea; Crew Missing
Jan 8 2018 // Rescue crews wrestled to bring a blaze on an Iranian oil tanker off China’s east coast under control on Monday as fire raged for a second day following a collision with a grain ship, while the body of one of the 32...
