USA TODAYOil spill, high waves: A Great Lakes disaster scenarioUSA TODAYDETROIT — Imagine an oil slick quickly growing through the Straits of Mackinac from a rupture of the 62-year-old, twin pipelines known as Line 5 traversing the bottom of where Lakes Mi …

ReutersAzerbaijan says 29 missing after oil platform fire feared deadReutersBAKU Azeri state energy company SOCAR said that 29 workers missing after its oil platform in the Caspian Sea caught fire on Friday were feared dead, and President Ilham Aliyev decl …

Moneycontrol.comUPDATE 2-Global risks bolster gold, oil after Paris attacksReutersSINGAPORE, Nov 16 Gold and oil edged up in nervous trading on Monday following the deadly attacks on Paris and large-scale French airstrikes in Syria, although broader commod …

Business InsiderRPT-Sewage flow becomes Williston's oil bust indicatorReutersCrude oil has fallen more than 50 percent in the past year and hurt many companies' finances, leading to massive cost cutting, including the cancellation of projects and l …

UPDATE 2-Work at site of Nexen spill done on tight schedule -engineering firm ...ReutersThe engineering firm, French-based ITP Interpipe, said in a June 2014 presentation to the Society of Petroleum Engineers in Calgary that field work at the site at Nexen …

UPDATE 2-Work at site of Nexen spill done on tight schedule -engineering firmReutersThe engineering firm, French-based ITP Interpipe, said in a June 2014 presentation to the Society of Petroleum Engineers in Calgary that field work at the site at Nexen Ene …

New ScientistGenetic engineering creates rice strain that makes less methane - New ScientistNew ScientistIt's food for climate conscious consumers. A strain of rice has been genetically engineered to produce less methane. Rice agriculture is responsibl …

CBC.caUPDATE 1-Nexen pipeline leaks 31500 bbls of emulsion at oil sands siteReutersIn terms of volume, the incident is one of the largest environmental spills on land in North American history, greater than the estimated 20,082 barrels of crude oil release …

INSIGHT-With options dwindling, BP seized a chance to settle oil spill caseReutersToward the end of an over hour-long conversation about the claims, Juneau, a mediator by trade, steered it toward the bigger cases BP still faced from the 2010 disaster that …

BBC NewsUPDATE 2-UK slams Argentine plan to seize Falklands oil driller assetsReutersOn Saturday, a federal judge in Tierra del Fuego ordered the seizure of $156 million in bank accounts, boats and other property belonging to six European and U.S. oil comp …