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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:30:54 -0600

The Houston Chronicle's energy news blog -- and really all of our energy news and information -- will be relocating to a new online home starting today: FuelFix.com. Please come follow the Chronicle's energy news coverage at FuelFix.com. NewsWatch:Energy started...

No sheen, fire out, workers safe

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:16:25 -0600

Despite earlier reports, the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday afternoon there is no sheen on the water from the Mariner Energy production platform accident . All 13 workers from the Vermillion 380 production platform located about 80 miles off the...

Rescue ship captain: 'just wishing the boat would go about three times faster'

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:45:33 -0600

Dan Shaw, captain of the MV Crystal Clear, the offshore supply vessel that rescued the 13 crew members aboard the Mariner Energy platform Thursday morning, said he heard a radio broadcast by a neighboring rig that a rig was on...

Mariner explosion is catnip to offshore drilling foes

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:51:38 -0600

Environmentalists and offshore drilling foes on Capitol Hill swiftly seized on the explosion of a Mariner Energy oil platform off the coast of Louisiana today -- less than five months after the Deepwater Horizon disaster -- as fresh evidence that...

Mariner's bounce, conspirators pounce

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:12:59 -0600

Mariner Energy's stock price took a steep dive early in the day following news of a fire on one of their offshore production platforms -- falling about 8 percent in less than a half-hour -- but soon rebounded. As of...

On-the-job-training: BP details 'lessons learned' from Gulf spill

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:47:45 -0600

BP officials told federal regulators today that the four-month battle against the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico unleashed major technological innovations in everything from unmanned submarines to drilling relief wells -- advancements that could help combat future offshore...

Mariner involved in 13 Gulf accidents since '06, seven with violations

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:57:56 -0600

Mariner Energy has been involved in a string of at least 13 offshore accidents since 2006 in Gulf of Mexico waters -- including a blowout and four fires -- that were investigated by the Minerals Management Service (now the Bureau...

White House closely monitoring platform explosion

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:30:25 -0600

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says the White House is remaining in close contact with the Coast Guard and other federal agencies in place along the Gulf of Mexico following this morning's explosion at a platform off the Louisiana coast....

Updates Oil sheen spotted, fire burning on Gulf platform

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:16:35 -0600

The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued 13 workers from a Mariner Energy production platform located about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast where there was an explosion and fire this morning. (See photos from the site at CultureMap.) The explosion...

Enter stage right: Federal investigators arrive on spill scene

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:00:49 -0600

Aside from Congressional hearings, most of the federal government's investigatory work around the Deepwater Horizon accident has been the done by the joint U.S. Coast Guard/Bureau of Ocean Energy Management panel. Until now. A criminal investigator with the Environmental Protection...

Chron Energy Newslinks | 09.02.10 | Houston really is the oil patch, appliance rebate 2.0, BP sells $10 billion.

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:15:43 -0600

• Energy workers rally in Houston against drilling ban. • City of Houston to allow gas drilling under city park lands. • BP spill advertising tally: $100 million. • Port of Houston says it needs $2 billion in improvements in...

Secret recipes of the drilling industry -- revealed!

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:32:14 -0600

The natural gas drilling industry has resisted sharing details of what's in hydraulic fracturing fluids in the past, saying it was sensitive competitive information. That argument seems have been finally abandoned, however, as Dallas-based Chief Oil & Gas said it...

Judge rejects government's bid to toss drill ban suit ... yet again

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:12:25 -0600

Heard this one before? A federal judge in New Orleans has rejected the Interior Department's motion to throw out a lawsuit challenging a ban on deep-water drilling. The government contended that since the ban at the center of the lawsuit...

Drilling rally: "This was not the entire oil industry that made this mistake"

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:00:19 -0600

The choice of speakers for the Houston jobs rally is clearly aimed at showing the energy industry isn't just a bunch of white guys. Latina Voices co-host Minerva Perez is emcee for the event. The emcee for the event is...