EcoWatchBP Platform Leaks Oil Into North Sea With No Plans to Clean It UpEcoWatchAbout 95 metric tons of oil leaked into the North Sea on Sunday from BP's Clair platform, and it will be left in the ocean. BP says the oil is moving away from land and di …

Flooding flushes oil, chemicals into Texas riversAustin American-StatesmanEL PASO, Texas — Recent floods across Texas have inundated oil wells and fracking sites, flushing crude oil and toxic fracking chemicals into the state's rivers. State emergency …

CNNMoneyKeystone pipeline leak estimate grows to 16800 gallons of oilCNNMoneyTransCanada now believes the Keystone pipeline has leaked about 16,800 gallons in South Dakota, a dramatic increase from initial estimates. The leak was discovered on Saturday and …

NPROne Of The Sierra Club's Biggest Funders Got Indicted For Trying To Rig Oil PricesDaily CallerThe indictment alleges Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy, colluded with another unnamed oil company to keep oil and gas bid prices at rock bottom …

Wall Street JournalNew Oil Players Line Up to Bid on a Piece of MexicoWall Street JournalMEXICO CITY—Former Mexican finance minister Pedro Aspe has an unusual collection on the walls of his offices here: stock and bond certificates from some of the Mexican …

Judge to Consider Request to Suspend Federal Oil, Gas RulesABC NewsFour states and two petroleum industry groups are suing the U.S. Interior Department, saying the rules announced in March are unnecessarily burdensome for oil and gas developers. The rules …

Wall Street JournalOil Companies Show Active Interest in Mexican Energy TractsWall Street JournalMEXICO CITY—More than 40 oil companies have sought access to geological data under Mexico's first oil auction in eight decades, showing interest in the pro …

FuelFix (blog)Warburg Pincus to Invest $500 Million in Oil and Gas Firm IRMNew York TimesBy deploying money from its new energy fund, along with its 11th private equity fund, Warburg Pincus has become one of the few private equity firms to strike into an o …

FT.com (registration) (blog)Fall in Oil Prices Fails to Deter Mexico's Sierra Oil & GasWall Street JournalMEXICO CITY—Sierra Oil & Gas, a company born out of the liberalization of Mexico's energy sector, is aggressively participating in the …