Harry R. Weber
Veteran newsman currently covering energy for The Houston Chronicle. Spent 12 years at The Associated Press covering energy, airlines, general business news, legal affairs, politics and state and federal government issues. Won or shared numerous awards and award nominations for coverage of the Gulf oil spill, Delta Air Lines, the Atlanta courthouse shootings and the murders of two Dartmouth College professors. Prior to AP, worked at two daily newspapers in the Boston area.
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Marathon Oil ends talks to sell Canadian oil sands stake
Marathon Oil Corp. is maintaining its goal of shedding up to $3 billion in assets by the end of this year even though it is taking the potential sale of some of its stake in a Canadian oil sands project off the table. More »
Noble Energy makes natural gas discovery off Israel
Independent exploration and production firm Noble Energy said Wednesday it made a new deepwater natural gas discovery off Israel. More »
Gulf spill victims fight companies’ effort to gut punitive damage claims
Individuals, businesses and states suing over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill are trying to prevent cement contractor Halliburton and rig owner Transocean from pulling the rug out from under their case before a federal judge rules on whether the companies were grossly negligent. More »
Judge tosses obstruction charge against former BP exec in spill case
A federal judge Monday threw out an obstruction of Congress charge against a former BP executive who had been accused of lying about the amount of oil that was flowing after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. More »
Plains Exploration shareholders approve Freeport-McMoRan buyout
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold’s buyout of Houston-based Plains Exploration and Production got the green light Monday after it offered $1.4 billion in last-minute incentives to sweeten a bid that faced mounting pressure from investors who initially panned the cash-and-stock deal as inadequate. More »
Texas joins other Gulf states in suing BP for environmental damage due to 2010 oil spill
Texas on Friday joined other Gulf states suing BP for environmental damage caused by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. More »
Judge delays trial for ex-BP engineer charged in Gulf oil spill case
A federal judge Friday ordered a delay of nearly six months in the trial of a former BP engineer charged with obstruction of justice in connection stemming from his actions after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. More »
Transocean shareholders oust chairman,but reject Icahn dividend proposal
Transocean shareholders Friday rejected billionaire investor Carl Icahn’s proposal for a $4-a-share dividend, a spokesman says. More »
Former BP chief becomes interim chairman for Swiss firm
Former BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward, who raised the ire of Americans for declaring at the heart of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, “I’d like my life back,” has been appointed interim board chairman of a Swiss company that supplies metals, minerals and agricultural products. More »
Transocean to see a dust-up at its annual meeting
Annual meetings are usually bland affairs for public companies – some shareholders show up, the rest vote on a few proposals by proxy if at all, and executives get on their jets or in their sedans and take off, sometimes before the coffee gets cold. More »
Former BP exec’s lawyer denies conflict of interest in Gulf oil spill case
Lawyers for a former BP executive charged with lying to Congress about how much oil was flowing following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill say the government is trying to manufacture a conflict of interest to disqualify one the defendant’s attorneys on the eve of trial. More »
Price-fixing probe in Europe targets BP, Statoil, Shell, others
Several major oil firms, including BP, Statoil and Royal Dutch Shell, have been caught up in a price-fixing probe in Europe. More »
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