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#1 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...
#2 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...
#3 Scientists Tally Oil Majors’ Climate Damage With Eye to Legal Liability
May 1 2025 // Over the last decade, scientists have rapidly developed the field of climate attribution research, teasing out the role played by global warming in individual natural disasters. Meanwhile, their ways of tracking a single...
#4 Trump Administration Sues Michigan to Halt State’s Fossil Fuel Lawsuit Plan
May 1 2025 // The Trump administration sued Michigan and Hawaii seeking to block the states from suing oil companies for damage caused by climate change, less than two months after the US Supreme Court rebuffed a Republican bid to...
#5 Chevron Says One Missing After Fire at Angola Offshore Oil Platform With 17 Injured
May 21 2025 // Chevron’s Angolan business said on Wednesday that there was one person missing after an early morning fire at its Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco (BBLT) offshore oil platform on Tuesday. Seventeen people were injured,...
#6 Authorities Are Cleaning Up an Oil Spill in Southeast Louisiana
May 7 2025 // Federal authorities are seeking to contain and clean up the damage from a decades-old oil well in southeast Louisiana that spewed crude and natural gas for more than a week. Upwards of 79,000 gallons (299,047 liters) of...
#7 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...
#8 EU Will Propose to G7 Nations a Reduction in Sanctions Price Cap for Russian Oil
May 20 2025 // The EU will propose to G7 finance ministers this week to lower the current $60 per barrel price cap on Russian seaborne oil as part of the new sanctions package against Moscow, European Economic Commissioner Valdis...
#9 EU to Propose More Sanctions on Russia’s ‘Shadow’ Oil Tankers
May 8 2025 // The European Union’s executive arm is set to propose a new package of sanctions targeting Moscow’s covert fleet of oil tankers as it seek to crank up pressure on Russia over its war against Ukraine. The...
