Latest Oil Gas Headlines
All the headlines from our Oil Gas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
More Russian Insurers Seek Indian Nod for Oil Tanker Coverage
Apr 25 2025 // Four new Russian companies have sought India’s approval to provide insurance for crude oil tankers docking at ports in the South Asian nation, according to people familiar with the matter. India’s shipping...
Lawsuits Against BP Over Health Impacts of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Stalled
Apr 22 2025 // Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation’s worst...
Estonia Detains and Boards Russia-Bound Oil Tanker Over Insurance Status
Apr 14 2025 // Estonia’s navy stopped and boarded a sanctioned, Russia-bound vessel in the Baltic Sea on Friday over its insurance status and suspicions that the vessel belonged to Moscow’s shadow fleet, which facilitates the...
Keystone Pipeline Operator Ordered to Take Corrective Actions After Oil Spill
Apr 14 2025 // Federal regulators have ordered the operator of the Keystone Pipeline to take several corrective actions after a rupture caused 147,000 gallons of oil to spill onto farmland in North Dakota, and the company said its goal...
Cleanup Underway in Keystone Oil Pipeline Spill in North Dakota
Apr 11 2025 // Trucks and workers started cleaning up the Keystone oil pipeline spill in rural North Dakota, though its cause and the project timing is unclear. The pipeline ruptured Tuesday morning in southeastern North Dakota and was...
California’s Effort to Hold Oil Companies Liable for Natural Disasters Stalls
Apr 11 2025 // California lawmakers have blocked a bill to make oil and gas companies liable for damage to homes from natural disasters caused by climate change, warning it could raise gas prices. The bill would have allowed victims of...
West Texas Prepares for Oil Downturn Amid Trump Tariffs
Apr 10 2025 // When President Donald Trump boasted about falling oil prices on social media early Monday, the Texas oil and gas industry didn’t cheer along with him. Trump’s latest round of tariffs set off unease among...
What Two Oil Firm Ads Show About Where UK Regulator Draws Line on Greenwashing
Apr 10 2025 // An ad for TotalEnergies SE inflated the oil company’s investments in renewable energy, misleading consumers, the UK’s advertising regulator ruled on Wednesday. Another commercial for Shell, which promoted its...
Texas Oil Executives Are Frustrated at Trump for Crushing Crude Prices
Apr 9 2025 // The angry mutterings at the Permian Basin Petroleum Association’s “Spring Swing” golf tournament this week weren’t all about missed putts or lost balls. The Texas oilmen on the fairways had a more...
Keystone Oil Pipeline Is Shut After a Spill in North Dakota
Apr 9 2025 // South Bow Corp.’s Keystone oil pipeline has been shut after a spill in southeast North Dakota, curtailing a conduit that carries as much as 15% of Canada’s crude exports to the US. The pipeline was shut within...
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...
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...
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,...
Greenpeace to Pay $660 Million in Damages to Texas Oil Firm
Mar 20 2025 // Greenpeace has been ordered to pay more than $660 million in damages to Energy Transfer Partners LP after the Texas-based oil company accused the environmental group of defamation in connection with protests against an oil...
Transportation Firm Faces Fines, Remediation Costs for Connecticut Oil Tanker Spill
Mar 20 2025 // Soundview Transportation faces a series of penalties and payments totaling $350,000 over a November 2022 oil tanker accident in Norfolk, Connnecticut, announced state Attorney General William Tong. In addition to the...
Four Sailors Involved in Major Singapore Oil Spill Plead Guilty, Straits Times Reports
Mar 14 2025 // Four Dutch crew members involved in a ship collision in Singapore have pleaded guilty for their role in the city-state’s worst oil spill in a decade, the Straits Times reported Wednesday. Richard Ouwehand, Martin...
China State Firms Curb Russian Oil Imports on Sanctions Risks, Sources Say
Mar 14 2025 // Chinese state oil companies are shying away from Russian oil this month, with two importers halting purchases while two others scaled back volumes as they assess compliance following recent U.S. sanctions on Moscow,...
Stricken Oil Tanker in North Sea Smolders With Hole in Side
Mar 11 2025 // A US oil tanker that was struck by a container ship in the North Sea on Monday was smoldering with a gaping hole in its side, footage broadcast by BBC News showed. Focus is now shifting to the environmental impact of the...
Supreme Court Nixes Challenge to State Climate Suits Against Oil Firms
Mar 10 2025 // The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday a bid by 19 Republican-led states led by Alabama to block five Democratic-led states from pursuing lawsuits accusing major oil companies of deceiving the public about the role...
