Details have yet to be released but a work-place death occurred early Wednesday at the ExxonMobil plant in Beaumont, Texas. The company said it happened around 12:30 a.m.. “We regret that a contractor was fatally injured in an incident at a unit under maintenance at the Beaumont refinery,” explained Exxon in a statement. “We have …
France is considering a total ban of U.S. shale gas because of hydraulic fracking, according to a report this week by Reuters. The wire service quoted French Energy Minister Segolene Royal who has started an investigation to determine any legal way for the ban since France has banned shale gas exploration using hydraulic fracturing. She …
Wednesday was the 40th anniversary of a deadly anhydrous ammonia spill that left seven dead and nearly 200 injured in Houston, Texas. It happened May 11, 1976 when an 18-wheeler carrying 7,000 gallons of the ammonia fell from a freeway ramp, according to the Houston Chronicle. The fumes proved deadly for those too close to …
With his signature on a bill, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has suspended his state’s work on a plan to comply with the controversial efforts of the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce carbon emissions using the Clean Power Plan. The law signed by Brownback suspends the state’s work and makes Kansas the third state to take such …
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has been joined by attorneys general from five other states in supporting the lawsuit filed by TransCanada challenging President Obama’s blocking of construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Texas joined Oklahoma in filing the Amicus Brief. It argues the President does not have the …
Government leaders in Canada declare they have saved most of the city of Fort McMurray from the devastating wildfire that destroyed hundreds of homes in Canada’s oil sands city. An estimated 2,400 homes were destroyed but according to the Associated Press, another 25,000 others were saved including the city’s hospital, municipal buildings and …
Short and to the point—-Newfield Exploration’s announcement this week that 50 of its employees in Oklahoma would be laid off and nearly 150 others would be transferred from the Tulsa offices back to the firm’s headquarters in Houston, Texas. Blame the oil and gas downturn and Newfield’s loss of millions in the first quarter of …
Recovering from Monday’s stumble and buoyed by new government data anticipating a rise to $50 a barrel by next year, oil futures turned the corner on Tuesday to recoup recent losses, according to Bloomberg MarketWatch. June West Texas Intermediate crude on the New York Mercantile Exchange rose $1.22, or 2.8%, to end trade at $44.66 …
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