Latest Energy Headlines
All the headlines from our Energy Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Update: Tennessee Oil Well Fire Doused, Residents Asked to Stay Away
Mar 27 2008 // A nearly week-old oil well fire in Anderson County, Tenn. was extinguished Tuesday, but officials worried about the danger of lingering natural gas vapors asked residents to stay away. A spokeswoman for the Environmental...
Singapore Air Again Grounds A380 for Fuel Pump Fault
Mar 26 2008 // Singapore Airlines said on Wednesday that it had to ground an Airbus A380 on Monday and transfer passengers to two smaller Boeing 747s bound for Sydney, after a fuel pump failed to work. This was the fourth incident in...
Feds Say Tennessee Failed to Give Timely Notice on Oil Well Fire
Mar 24 2008 // A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official has told Anderson County residents that Tennessee officials did not inform them of an oil well fire in a timely manner. The well near Oliver Springs struck a huge pocket of...
Oil and Gas Extraction Market Holds Solid Potential
Mar 24 2008 // While the oil and gas market can be seen as including pipeline and distribution operations, petroleum and petroleum product wholesalers, fuel oil dealers and even gas stations, the dominant North American Industry...
Oil Well Ignites in Tennessee; Flames Seen for Miles
Mar 20 2008 // Tennessee authorities said at least one person has been burned and residents have been ordered to evacuate after an Anderson County oil well caught fire. Firefighters from several departments were working to put out the...
Alaska Fishing Town Braces for Court Look at Exxon Valdez Spill
Mar 10 2008 // For many in the coastal town of Cordova, Alaska, the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster was an event so crushing that hard-bitten fishermen still get teary-eyed recalling ruined livelihoods, broken marriages and suicides. But...
Alaska Fishing Town Braces for Court Look at Exxon Valdez Spill
Feb 27 2008 // For many in the coastal town of Cordova, Alaska, the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster was an event so crushing that hard-bitten fishermen still get teary-eyed recalling ruined livelihoods, broken marriages and suicides. But...
Oil Companies May be Under Insured as Prices Rise, Notes Marsh
Feb 20 2008 // In a bulletin released in advance of Marsh’s National Oil Companies Conference to be held next week, the broker warned that oil companies run the risk of being under insured as world oil prices reach record...
Chubb Joins Renewable Energy, Green Building Groups
Jan 31 2008 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has joined the American Council On Renewable Energy and the U.S. Green Building Council. Peter Thompson, vice president, Chubb & Son, and worldwide energy manager for Chubb...
UK to Relaunch Nuclear Power Plants
Jan 15 2008 // In a controversial decision the government announced that it will approve “a building program for a new generation of nuclear power stations, citing environmental reasons and the need for energy security in a...
Lloyd’s GCube Promotes Growth in Renewable Energy Sector
Jan 11 2008 // “GCube, the insurance entity spun out of Lloyd’s managing general agency WindPro, has opened its doors to business on both sides of the Atlantic,” notes a bulletin on the Lloyd’s web site...
Kan. Jury Sides with Oil Company in Pollution Lawsuit
Jan 9 2008 // Jurors sided with oil giant BP Corp. North America Inc. Monday in a pollution lawsuit filed by the city of Neodesha seeking to recover the costs of cleanup and damages caused by an oil refinery. Jurors hearing the case in...
Environmental Groups sue Shell for Excess Pollution at Texas Refinery
Jan 9 2008 // Environmental groups have sued Shell Oil Co. and several of its affiliates, claiming the oil giant has for years released pollutants from its suburban Houston refinery that are well above state and federal limits. In their...
Workers’ Comp Dividend Earned by Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Group
Dec 21 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $129,320 dividend to the Texas Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association (TPCA) workers’ compensation purchasing group today. The group’s first dividend...
Sloan Mason Offers Oil and Gas Contractors Program
Dec 13 2007 // Sloan Mason based in San Diego is offering access to a new program for land-based oil and gas contractors nationwide. The company is providing general liability/auto/workers’ compensation with an “A” XV...
Federal Government Sues Ship Owner, Pilot, Insurer over Bay Oil Spill
Dec 3 2007 // The Justice Department filed a lawsuit accusing the pilot and the Hong Kong-based owners of the container ship Cosco Busan of breaking environmental laws when the ship struck a bridge support in San Francisco Bay, spilling...
Cargo Ship Crashes into San Francisco Bay Bridge, Causes Oil Spill
Nov 12 2007 // A cargo ship sideswiped a support on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge last Wednesday, leaving a gash nearly 100 feet long on the side of the 926-foot vessel, and spilling fuel into the bay. The crash ruptured two fuel...
Supreme Court to Decide on Exxon Valdez Punitive Damages
Oct 31 2007 // The Supreme Court this week agreed to decide whether Exxon Mobil Corp. should pay $2.5 billion in punitive damages in connection with the huge Exxon Valdez oil spill that fouled more than 1,200 miles of Alaskan coastline...
British Petroleum to Pay More Than $370M for Violations in U.S.
Oct 26 2007 // British Petroleum and several of its subsidiaries have agreed to pay approximately $373 million in fines and restitution for environmental violations, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. The sanctions stem from a...
S.C. Clam Farmers Settle for $1.8 Million Following Oil Spill
Oct 22 2007 // More than a dozen South Carolina clam farmers who claimed most of their crop was spoiled by an oil spill five years ago have settled a lawsuit with a shipping line and a dredging firm for nearly $1.8 million. Under the...
