Oil climbed above $77 a barrel Tuesday amid anticipation that crude supplies fell more than expected last week.
A tanker ship loaded with oil in the Port of Port Arthur, Texas, collided with two barges being towed by a tug boat, resulting in a spill of about 450,000 gallons of crude, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
Crews removed about 46,000 gallons of oil from waters near Port Arthur, Texas, on Sunday, roughly 10 percent of the oil spilled a day earlier when a tanker collided with two barges, a U.S. Coast Guard officer said.
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The environmental damage of Hurricane Ike is only now becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico
A tugboat on Saturday reached a disabled freighter carrying 22 people, hours after the ship rode out Hurricane Ike without power, Coast Guard spokesman Mike O'Berry said.
A U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopter crew completes a rescue mission along the southeastern coastline of Texas.
Even with Hurricane Ike more than 100 miles away, authorities began rescue efforts Friday, picking up more than 120 people stranded by rising seas along the southeast Texas coast.
The U.S. coast guard executes a dramatic rescue of a a motorist stranded in floodwaters created by Hurricane Ike.
The oil industry in the Gulf of Mexico is getting ready for Hurricane Ike in case it slams into the energy infrastructure.
Edouard weakened to a tropical depression Tuesday afternoon after moving inland from the Gulf of Mexico and bringing much-needed rain to Central Texas.
The Texas and Louisiana Gulf coasts hunkered down early Tuesday as Tropical Storm Edouard gained strength with landfall only hours away.
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Oil futures fell for the first time in ten sessions Friday after a rally that has driven prices to new highs that some analysts say are unrealistic.
Oil prices turned higher Thursday, setting another record high at more than $80 a barrel, as Hurricane Humberto made landfall along the Texas coast and disrupted refining operations.
CNNMoney: Refinery shares climbupdated: Thu Sep 13 2007 00:49:00
Oil refiner shares rose Thursday as weather concerns and a Valero Energy Corp. outage maintained oil prices at near-record levels.
Surprise hurricane hits Texas
Oil rose Monday as a string of U.S. refining outages again sparked concerns of a supply shortfall in the midst of the top consumer's peak driving season.
It was the tragedy that stunned Australia a decade ago: 35 innocent men, women and children gunned down by a disturbed young man in the forbiddingly beautiful setting of Port Arthur, an isolated 19th century prison on the island of Tasmania.
There is a tragic and lonely beauty about Port Arthur, the historic tourist area on the southern island of Tasmania that was once Australia's most notorious convict jail and a hellhole for transportees from Britain.
Gasoline prices fell another two cents Thursday, according to AAA, as refineries came back online following hurricane Katrina.
Getting off-shore oil and natural gas platforms back in service after two Gulf of Mexico hurricanes is proving difficult, according to a published report Friday.
Towns near where Hurricane Rita made landfall have had all but a handful of buildings destroyed, including nearly all homes in Cameron, Holly Beach and Creole, officials said Sunday.
Damage was reported Saturday at two oil refineries in the Gulf of Mexico area following Hurricane Rita, but the full extent of the damage from the storm is still being assessed.
CNN's Jeff Koinange in New Orleans, Louisiana Posted: 9:10 p.m. ET
The remnants of what had been Hurricane Rita dragged closer to their demise, but residual winds, flooding threats and darkness have forced an end to search-and-rescue efforts in southwest Louisiana.
Two major refineries reported damage from Hurricane Rita Saturday, but Texas Gov. Rick Perry said overall damage to oil facilities appeared to be modest.
Here are the latest numbers from the National Hurricane Center's advisory on Hurricane Rita at 5 a.m. ET Saturday.
As Category 4 Hurricane Rita headed toward the Gulf Coast, thousands of residents in the greater Houston area jammed highways Thursday only to sit in traffic that moved no faster than a pedestrian's gait.
Remember when gas spiked to $3-plus a gallon after Hurricane Katrina? By this time next week, that could seem like the good old days.
CNNMoney: Rita threatens stocksupdated: Thu Sep 22 2005 05:34:00
Worries about Hurricane Rita's threat to the Texas Gulf Coast sent oil and other energy prices higher Thursday, dampening the outlook for stocks.
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