August 6, 2015
Plains All American Pipeline LP’s ruptured California oil pipeline may have spilled 41 percent more crude than currently estimated, the company said on Wednesday. In a presentation accompanying Plains’ quarterly earnings call with analysts, the company said the May rupture …
May 7, 2015
A BNSF train carrying crude oil owned by Hess Corp derailed and caught fire in North Dakota on May 6, forcing the evacuation of a nearby small town just days after the United States and Canada announced reforms to improve …
April 2, 2013
Arkansas on Tuesday launched an investigation into an Exxon Mobil pipeline rupture that spilled thousands of barrels of crude oil into a housing development last week, just as forecast rain was expected to complicate the clean-up. Arkansas Attorney General Dustin …
March 1, 2013
BP Plc’s investigation of its disastrous 2010 Gulf of Mexico blowout did not address the impact of cost overruns on the well, a BP executive said on Thursday, in the final day of testimony this week in the massive civil …
February 27, 2013
BP Plc took chances drilling its doomed Macondo well long before it ruptured in 2010, a well design and pressure expert said on Wednesday in the second day of testimony in the civil trial over the Gulf of Mexico oil …
February 26, 2013
A long-awaited trial over the biggest U.S. offshore oil spill began on Monday, with governments, businesses and individuals blaming BP Plc mostly for the 2010 disaster that killed 11 rig workers and spilled 4 million barrels of oil into the …
February 25, 2013
BP executives more focused on cost-cutting and oil production than safety should be held responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, a lawyer told a courtroom …
February 21, 2013
Nearly three years after a deepwater well rupture killed 11 men, sank a rig and spewed 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, BP and the other companies involved are scheduled to face their judge in court. …
June 22, 2012
Energy companies began evacuating non-essential personnel from operations in Gulf of Mexico on Friday due to the threat of a weather system in the region developing into a tropical cyclone. Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and Murphy Oil Corp. said they were …
May 16, 2011
Waters unleashed by the opening of a key Mississippi River floodway crept through the Louisiana bayou Monday in a surge that could leave thousands of homes and farms under as much as 20 feet of water. The U.S. Army Corps …