BP Plc (BP/) and its partners in the Russian oil venture TNK-BP won dismissal of Norex Petroleum Ltd.’s lawsuit claiming more than $1 billion damages over the loss of a controlling stake in a Russian oil company.  More »

A New Orleans federal judge will receive an update Friday on the mountain of litigation surrounding the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, amid a surge of complaints about a proposed class-action settlement of some of the lawsuits.  More »

Chesapeake Energy Corp. (CHK), facing claims by mineral rights holders in multiple states over canceled oil and gas lease offers, lost a bid to reverse a $19.7 million judgment to a Texas lease owner.  More »

A group of Texas rice farmers is challenging a Canadian company’s right to condemn land to build a pipeline to carry crude from Alberta to the Gulf Coast.  More »

A Brazilian federal prosecutor plans to file a criminal case against Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PETR4) for polluting the Atlantic Ocean with fuels from a refinery.  More »

The settlement includes concessions by Goldman Sachs Group.  More »

BP Plc (BP/), the owner of the Macondo well that caused the worst U.S. oil spill two years ago, declined in London after the Department of Justice reiterated it will pursue charges of gross negligence in the case.  More »

Six California residents are being held on fraud and conspiracy charges for an alleged scam in which investors were promised a stake in a fictitious oil and gas project on Montana’s Fort Peck Indian Reservation, authorities said Tuesday.  More »

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. agreed to pay more than $2 million to a teenager burned in the 2010 San Bruno gas pipeline explosion that killed eight people and destroyed dozens of homes, according to secret settlement documents mistakenly posted by a California court.  More »

Range Resources Corp.’s lawsuit against Texas landowners who accused it of contaminating their water by hydraulic fracturing can’t be halted under a state law that bans litigation meant to stifle public protest, an appeals court said.  More »

On Tuesday, a panel of the DC Circuit released its long awaited opinion in EME Homer City Generation v. EPA. This case was brought about on consolidated challenges to the EPA’s attempt to implement the Cross State Air Pollution Rule, a follow up to the CAIR (Clean Air Interstate Rule) that the DC Circuit found [...]  More »

Texas landowners are vowing to fight on despite a county judge’s ruling that a Canadian company can run a pipeline across private property to bring crude oil to Gulf Coast refineries.  More »