Louisiana Politicians Join Suits Blaming Big Oil for Coastal Ruin August 9, 2016 By Cain Burdeau The oil industry has left a big footprint along the Gulf Coast, where a Delaware-sized stretch of Louisiana has disappeared....
Alberta Wildfires Set to Veer from Oil Sands Operations, Spreading More Slowly May 9, 2016 By Rebecca Penty and Robert Tuttle Wildfires raging through Alberta are set to move away from the main oil-sands facilities north of Fort McMurray after knocking...
Alberta Wildfire Insured Losses Could Total $7.3B, Covering Area Bigger Than NYC May 6, 2016 By Rebecca Penty, Robert Tuttle and Scott Deveau The wildfires ravaging Canada’s oil hub in northern Alberta have rapidly spread to an area bigger than New York city,...
Shell: Insurers May Be Reluctant to Underwrite Carbon Capture Projects June 12, 2015 By Alex Morales Projects to capture carbon emissions from power plants and store them permanently underground face “large risk premiums” from insurers because...
Higginbotham Appoints Shell to Lead Transportation Insurance Unit February 17, 2012 Texas-based independent insurance and financial service firm, Higginbotham, has appointed commercial insurance broker Jack Shell to develop its new transportation...
Shell Singapore Refinery May Shut for a Month; Distillates Force Majeure September 30, 2011 By Francis Kan and Yaw Yan Chong Royal Dutch Shell’s Singapore refinery may remain shut for at least a month, industry sources said, and the company declared...
UPDATE: Fire Surges at Shell’s Singapore Refinery September 29, 2011 There has been a surge in the fire at Shell’s Singapore refinery, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said in...
Fire at Shell Singapore Refinery Contained September 28, 2011 By Yaw Yan Chong and Francis Kan A fire at Royal Dutch Shell’s petroleum complex offshore Singapore is still burning, but has been contained, although it was...
Shell North Sea Pipeline Leak – ‘Substantial’ August 15, 2011 By Sarah Young Royal Dutch Shell’s ruptured pipeline in the North Sea has already caused a “substantial” oil spill, with oil still leaking...