The U.S. Coast Guard is searching Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast between Lake Charles and Baton Rouge for a missing welder from the Philippines after an accident on a rig Sunday night south of Freshwater Bayou.
Petty Officer Carlos Vega tells the Associated Press 38-year-old Peter Voces was knocked overboard when an empty "tank barrel" used for oil fell on him Sunday evening...
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BP decides to evacuate personnel deemed non essential to oil and gas production from the world's largest platform and three others in the central Gulf of Mexico. This is done in response to a potential tropical storm passing over or near the area in the next couple of days.
Governor Jindal says today his administration will seek to intervene in lawsuits filed by environmental groups challenging the federal government's approval of the first offshore Exploration Plan since last year's oil spill.
Washington, DC – U.S. Congressman Charles W. Boustany, Jr., MD (R-Southwest Louisiana) today applauded the announcement of a plan to address Colombian labor issues, possibly clearing the way for passage of the U.S. - Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (TPA) by Congress.
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Sen. David Vitter today sent a letter to the President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, Fred Hochberg, seeking answers to the $2 billion the bank loaned a Brazilian state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to produce energy
off the coast of Brazil.
NEW IBERIA, LA – Amid the continuing unrest in Egypt and the speculation of a Suez Canal shutdown – causing the largest single day increase in the price of crude oil since 2009, Congressman Jeff Landry (Republican, LA-03) has called on the President to allow domestic oil and gas drillers to get back to work immediately in order to lower the price at the pump.
WASHINGTON, DC – House Natural Resources Committee Member Jeff Landry (LA-03) issued the following opening statement at today’s Full Committee Oversight Hearing on The Final Report from the President's National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling:
(Washington, D.C.) — U.S. Sen. David Vitter and U.S. Rep. Jeff Landry (LA-3) this week sent a letter to Office of Management and Budget Director Jacob Lew, asking for the administration’s projections for revenues from offshore energy production as well as their projections of revenue from renewable energy.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill moving toward approval in the Senate would increase by 60 days the amount of time the Interior Department has to conduct environmental and safety reviews of offshore drilling projects.
Washington D.C. - U.S. Representative Charles W. Boustany, Jr., (R-Southwest Louisiana), released the following statement regarding the Obama Administration’s decision to cancel future offshore drilling opportunities in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico and on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts.
The Obama administration announced today its NOT moving forward on a plan to allow offshore oil drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico or off the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts.