Massive Minnesota Oil Spill Raises Questions about Safety of Transporting Oil...
As oil exports from Canada to the United States expand, so do the risks associated with rail transport. Early in the morning of March 27, 2013, a mile-long Canadian Pacific train hauling Canadian...
View ArticleArkansas Oil Spill Not Deadly, Yet
Long-term effects of oil spills remain uncertain, with studies working to provide some answers to the exact health hazards such toxic accidents cause. The recent ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline spill in...
View ArticleArkansas Oil Spill Not Deadly, Yet
Long-term effects of oil spills remain uncertain, with studies working to provide some answers to the exact health hazards such toxic accidents cause. The recent ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline spill in...
View ArticleOil Spills Are More Common Than You May Think
Everyone notices an oil spill as big as BP’s Deepwater Horizon. But oil-related accidents occur much more often than the public may be aware of, with oil seeping into the ground and sometimes...
View ArticleWhich Method is Safest? We May Not Know
President Obama’s decision regarding the Keystone XL pipeline, which transports oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, may have substantial effects on the industry. The debate over a safe alternative...
View ArticleSouth Texas Oil and Gas Companies’ Safety Violations Result in Workers’ Deaths
Julio Barrera, a 25-year-old father with another baby on the way, noticed the derrick tower he was supposed to climb for work was moving, but he was told he would be fired if he didn’t go up. The tower...
View ArticleOutdated Welding Caused Exxon Oil Spill in Mayflower, Arkansas
A recently released report found that the Arkansas oil spill that leaked thousands of barrels of oil in March was caused by an outdated welding process. Exxon Mobil Corp.’s pipeline had cracks that...
View ArticleCommon Causes of Oilfield Accidents
The fiancé of a man who was fatally electrocuted at a West Texas drilling site filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company that employed him and its subcontractor. KeAndre Lamon Ross was...
View ArticleWhat Should I Do After an Oilfield Accident?
Two men died in separate oilfield accidents in West Texas within the same week recently, bringing attention to Big Spring for all the wrong reasons. The first man was killed when the rig he was working...
View ArticleBP to Pay $130 Million to Deepwater Horizon Victims
A federal judge recently ruled that BP must pay $130 million in damages to victims of its 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill, which killed 11 rig workers. BP has already paid more than...
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