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#1 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...

#2 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...

#3 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...

#4 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...

#5 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...

#6 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...

#7 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...

#8 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...

#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 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...

#11 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...

#12 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...

#13 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...