The U.S. offshore drilling safety agency on Wednesday issued five more citations against BP for its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year.
A majority of Americans say members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives should receive salary cuts, have their pensions discontinued and be required to spend more time on Capitol Hill.
Petroleum major BP has accused Halliburton Energy Services Inc., the U.S. and Dubai-based oilfield services corporation, of intentionally destroying crucial evidence related to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico last year.
Canada believes the United States will ultimately approve TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which Washington put on hold last month for more than a year, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said on Friday.
The business, which includes pipelines and processing stations that remove valuable crude-like liquids from gas, owns or has rights to about 4,000 kilometers of pipeline systems and 21 million barrels of storage capacity.
Enbridge Inc's proposed C$5.5 billion ($5.3 billion) pipeline to British Columbia poses a raft of environmental risks, according to a new report that signals the project will become the next battleground over the future of Canada's oil sands.
After a year of delays, U.S. prosecutors offered their opening arguments Tuesday in Anchorage at a hearing demanding that BP's probation be revoked.
The public relations campaign at end of year 2010 is proving to be a hard one for U.S. oil giant Chevron Corporation. Faced with an oil leak, the suspension of its drilling rights and severe public backlash all in Brazil, the company has now been labeled the most toxic energy company.
State readies a new ad campaign to reverse public opinion severely hurt by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010.
Several of the Blue Penguins rescued from an oil spill that occurred in October off of the coast of the New Zealand island of Tauranga have been returned to the wild.
Chevron Corporation announced it is taking full responsibility for the oil leak that occurred off the coast of Rio de Janeiro two weeks ago.
U.S. government attorneys have charged BP Exploration Inc. with violating the company's probation originating from a 2009 oil spill in Alaska, the second company spill in three years.
The beaches affected by the New Zealand oil spill reopen on Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier announced Monday Alabama and Louisiana may sue the oil company under general maritime law for punitive damage, negligence and product liability, but not for civil penalties under the Outer Continental Shelf Act as that is governed by federal law.
TransCanada agreed on Monday to reroute its Keystone XL oil pipeline around the Nebraska Sandhills in response to environmental concerns. The concession, which came on the heels of President Obama's decision to order a State Department re-review of the pipeline project, was a strategic move that divided the coalition of locals and environmentalists opposed the pipeline.
Efforts made by Chevron Brazil officials to control an ocean-floor oil leak off the coast of Brazil continue.
After weeks of pumping oil from Rena, a Liberian ship stranded off the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, salvage teams are still removing containers from the vessel in a desperate attempt to avoid an environmental disaster.
U.S. oil giant Chevron halted drilling of a well off the coast of Brazil as it looks into the possible causes of an oil spill in the region.
Tar Sands Action, an environmental organization responsible for organizing the massive Keystone XL pipeline protests, said the Obama administration's decision to delay approval for the project is a major success for the green movement.
Chevron's Brazilian outfit working to plug an ocean-floor oil spill off Brazilian coast.
Human rights group urges Shell to pay $1 billion for the clean up of two oil spills that date back to 2008. Company says continuing sabotage undermines clean-up efforts.
Fire broke out on Wednesday on the Okordia/Rumuekpe oil pipeline in Nigeria and some production has been shut down, but the blaze has since been put out, a spokesman for operator Royal Dutch Shell said.
