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#1 The Secretive World of Russian Oil Tanker Insurance Revealed
Oct 22 2024 // One of the energy market’s open questions since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been who’s insuring the tankers moving Moscow’s petroleum against the risk of a catastrophic oil spill. The answer is...
#2 Study Links Fracking Wastewater Injection to Surface Blowouts in West Texas Oil Wells
Aug 7 2024 // Fracking wastewater, injected underground for permanent disposal, traveled 12 miles through geological faults before bursting to the surface through a previously plugged West Texas oil well in 2022, according to a new...
#3 Pressure Mounts on Texas Regulator as ‘Zombie’ Oil Wells Spill Toxic Fluids
Aug 15 2024 // PECOS COUNTY, Texas – On a sprawling ranch in Pecos County in late July, oil well control specialist Hawk Dunlap used a backhoe to uncover an abandoned or so-called zombie well that had sprung back to life despite being...
#4 Driver Says He Smoked Pot Oil, Took Meds Before Florida Crash That Killed 8 Workers
May 17 2024 // OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A man with a long record of dangerous driving told investigators he smoked marijuana oil and took prescription drugs hours before he sideswiped a bus, killing eight Mexican farmworkers and injuring...
#5 Zombie Ships Are Fast Becoming a Feature of Venezuelan Oil Trade
Apr 30 2025 // On Good Friday, an aging supertanker fully laden with oil and calling itself Varada arrived in the waters to the east of Malaysia after a two-month voyage from Venezuela. The vessel raised some red flags: it was 32 years...
#6 Oil and Gas Power Lines Suspected of Causing Texas Panhandle Wildfires
Aug 1 2024 // When a spate of wildfires tore across the Texas Panhandle in February and scorched 20,000 acres of Craig Cowden’s ranch near Skellytown, he decided he had had enough. Cowden took on a second unofficial job: looking...
#7 West Texas Lawmakers Want to Divert Oil and Gas Taxes to Address Oil Patch Repairs
Mar 27 2025 // The fracking boom that resuscitated the Texas oil fields has also beaten up the infrastructure in the Permian Basin, the state’s biggest oil and gas drilling region. More heavy trucks drove through small towns,...
#8 Zombie Tanker Turns Up at Northern Chinese Port Laden With Oil
Sep 30 2024 // Singapore-flagged oil tanker EM Longevity made its final voyage almost three years ago, after more than two decades at sea. Earlier this month, ship-tracking data showed it arriving at a Chinese port, loaded with crude and...
#9 Leaked Files Raise Fears About Shell Oil Production Fleet, Years After Devastating Spill
Apr 4 2025 // Off the coast of Nigeria, one of the world’s largest oil production ships, called the Bonga, was taking oil from a field on the ocean floor and transferring it to a tanker ship. Such transfers are routine in the...
#10 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...
#11 Russia Faces Impending Oil Tanker Crisis as Sanctions Pile Up: Bloomberg Oil Strategist
Feb 7 2025 // Russia appears to be on the cusp of a debilitating oil-freight transportation problem because of US sanctions, writes Bloomberg oil strategist Julian Lee. On Jan. 10, the US Treasury sanctioned 161 oil tankers for their...
#12 Shell Settles Lawsuit Against Greenpeace Over Activists Boarding Oil Vessel
Dec 11 2024 // British oil and gas major Shell on Tuesday settled a London lawsuit it brought against environmental group Greenpeace after activists boarded a Shell oil production vessel last year. Greenpeace said it had agreed to pay...
#13 Biden to Ban More Offshore Oil Drilling Before Trump Arrives
Jan 3 2025 // President Joe Biden is preparing to issue a decree permanently banning new offshore oil and gas development in some US coastal waters, locking in difficult-to-revoke protections during his final weeks in the White...
#14 Growing Shadow Fleet of Tankers, Shipping Sanctioned Oil, Are Burning Dirty Fuel
May 29 2024 // The growing shadow fleet of tankers transporting sanctioned Iranian, Venezuelan and Russian oil is filling up with the cheapest fuel available, hindering industry efforts to use cleaner fuel to cut shipping emissions,...
#15 How Iran Oil Link Could Complicate Insurance Claims After Tankers Collide Off Singapore
Aug 5 2024 // A collision between two tankers off Singapore in July raises questions over insurance claims, as one of the vessels previously shipped Iranian oil, potentially complicating payments due to Western sanctions, ship-trackers...
#16 Appeals Court Says Experts Must Show Causal Relationship in BP Oil Workers’ Suits
Oct 22 2024 // A federal appeals court has underscored the high bar that expert witnesses must meet before a court can connect the dots between exposure and illness, a ruling that could have an impact on insurance claims and toxic tort...
#17 Deadly US Oil Blast Exposes Risks of Pushing Profits Over Safety
May 17 2024 // The explosion that rocked Marathon Petroleum Corp.’s Galveston Bay oil refinery one year ago trapped Rigoberto Guillen 75 feet in the air. Stranded on a metal platform, he and a colleague crouched low as black smoke...
#18 Firm Issued Fake Insurance for Russian Oil Tankers, Norway’s Regulator Says
Apr 2 2025 // The insurance issued to dozens of aging oil tankers used by Russia to skirt international sanctions was bogus, according to Norwegian authorities now investigating the small firm behind the forged...
#19 Russian Oil Finds New Site for Controversial Cargo Switching
Jun 4 2024 // Under pressure from Greece’s navy, traders of Russian oil have found a new place to switch cargoes of crude in the Mediterranean sea, a sign of how hard it will be to clamp down on an activity that has alarmed...
#20 Texas is Close to Adopting Revised Oil and Gas Waste Rules
Sep 13 2024 // Texas is inching closer to adopting revised oil and gas waste management rules for the first time in four decades. The Railroad Commission of Texas announced the draft rule at its Aug. 15 meeting and is now soliciting...
