Tag: Oil

With Keystone XL looming, oil train crash ignites rail-versus-pipeline debate

Energy and Environment

With Keystone XL looming, oil train crash ignites rail-versus-pipeline debate

Zack Colman · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

A fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment Monday, Dec 30, 2013, in Casselton, N.D. The train carrying crude oil derailed near Casselton Monday afternoon. Several explosions were reported as some cars on the mile-long train caught fire. (AP Photo/Bruce Crummy)

Energy and Environment

Mayor: North Dakota town dodged a bullet in crude explosion

Washington Examiner · December 31, 2013 5:00 am

A Whiting Petroleum Co. pump jack pulls crude oil from the Bakken region of the Northern Plains near Bainville, Mont., on Nov. 6. A growing push to allow oil companies to export some of the crude oil that is being produced in greater volumes domestically is sparking debate as 2014 nears. The ban on exports stems from a 1975 law passed after the nation suffered crippling shortages of oil and gas. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

Beltway Confidential

Another hiring surge in North Dakota thanks to shale oil

Ashe Schow · December 31, 2013 5:00 am

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Domestic production to drive oil prices down, forecasters say

Washington Examiner · December 30, 2013 5:00 am

Mexico's President EnriqueÃÂ PeÃ±aÃÂ Nieto holds up the documents he signed to enact his proposed energy reforms at the National Palace in Mexico City on Dec. 20. The sweeping reforms approved by state legislators allow private companies to explore for and produce oil and gas, capping a remarkable series of legislative victories by the Mexican leader. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Overdue reforms boost Mexico — and the United States

Michael Barone · December 29, 2013 5:00 am

While some important uses for natural gas are falling, without the need to power or heat large office spaces and some non-essential manufacturing facilities, demand has picked up in other places, such as in feedstock for plastics used to make key health equipment.

Energy and Environment

Examiner Editorial: Obama should lead the U.S. to energy independence

Washington Examiner · December 26, 2013 5:00 am

The shoreline of Bay Jimmy, which was heavily impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, is seen in an area that has tar mats and oozing crude oil on the marsh platform, in Plaquemines Parish, La., on Sept. 27. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Energy and Environment

BP appeals ruling in dispute over spill settlement

Washington Examiner · December 26, 2013 5:00 am

One of several warning signs line the secured at Denbury Resources Inc.'s, Tinsley Field facility in Tinsley, Miss. (AP/Rogelio V. Solis)

Energy and Environment

To clean up coal, Obama pushes more oil production

Dina Cappiello · December 23, 2013 5:00 am

The American Petroleum Institute says the U.S. energy boom has made a 40-year crude oil export ban irrelevant, citing Energy Information Administration projections this week that domestic oil production would hit a near-record 9.5 million barrels per day by 2016. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Energy and Environment

Oil industry starts push to end ban on exports of crude oil

Zack Colman · December 21, 2013 5:00 am

Western states hit hard by budget deal’s tweak to oil, gas royalties

Western states hit hard by budget deal’s tweak to oil, gas royalties

Washington Examiner · December 20, 2013 5:00 am

$The incomes of those who live in the 28 New York counties above the Marcellus Shale have the potential to expand by as much as 15 percent over the next four years -- if the state's moratorium on hydro-fracturing is lifted. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)$ Energy and Environment

Pennsylvania gas drilling decision leaves future uncertain

Washington Examiner · December 20, 2013 5:00 am

A BNSF Railway train hauls crude oil west of Wolf Point, Mont. (AP/Matthew Brown)

Energy and Environment

Oil trains raise concerns in small towns, cities

John Funk · December 19, 2013 5:00 am