Most Popular Oil Gas Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Oil Gas Topic Page over the last year.
#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 The Biggest US Oil Field Is at Risk of Poisonous Water Leaks, Texas Warns
May 23 2025 // Texas regulators are warning that wastewater from fracking in the biggest US oil basin is causing a “widespread” increase in underground pressure — a development that risks hindering crude output and harming...
#3 Energy Transfer Fuel Leak in Pennsylvania Lasted 16 Months, PHMSA Says
Feb 28 2025 // A pipeline operated by Energy Transfer LP leaked jet fuel for at least 16 months, contaminating residential water wells in Pennsylvania, and the conduit may be at risk for further incidents, according to a preliminary...
#4 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...
#5 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...
#6 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...
#7 Oil Tankers Rocked by Mystery Blasts After Trips to Russia
Feb 20 2025 // At least four oil tankers have been hit with explosions so far this year — all of them having visited Russia’s territorial waters in the weeks prior to the blasts happening. Nobody has claimed responsibility for...
#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 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...
#10 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...
#11 Trump Inflames California Over Oil Drilling Plan for Pacific Coast
Nov 21 2025 // President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday unveiled a plan for a dramatic expansion of oil and gas drilling rights auctions in U.S. waters, including in California, where state officials strongly oppose...
#12 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...
#13 Ex-Shell US Oil Trading Boss Claims He’s Owed $29 Million Bonus
Jun 20 2025 // Shell Plc’s former head of oil trading in the US was stiffed on his 2020 bonus by more than $29 million, he claims in a lawsuit that shines a light on compensation inside the oil major’s lucrative trading...
#14 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,...
#15 Reuters: Iran, Russia and the New Zealand Insurer That Kept Sanctioned Oil Flowing
Oct 28 2025 // Last Christmas, the tanker Yug cruised out of the Chinese port of Qingdao after offloading 2 million barrels of sanctioned Iranian oil. Near the Arctic, a vessel carrying Russian crude churned through icy seas, bound for...
#16 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...
#17 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...
#18 Wildfires in Alberta Pose Growing Threat to Canada’s Oil
May 30 2025 // Wildfires are threatening about 5% of Canada’s crude output as a blaze in Alberta’s oil sands region spreads and approaches major production sites. A total of 26 out-of-control fires are burning in the province...
#19 Delay in Federal Permits Hinders Texas Oil Companies’ Carbon Capture Projects
Feb 11 2025 // Texas oil companies and regulators have waited years for federal permits that would allow those companies to suck carbon dioxide — the largest contributor to climate change — from the atmosphere and inject it...
#20 Toxic Water From Texas Oil Production Is Set to Be Treated and Pumped Into Rivers
Dec 12 2025 // Texas is about to deploy a potential solution to the oil industry’s toxic wastewater problem — but it’s a move that carries environmental risks of its own. State regulators are working to issue permits that...
