Inspector Finds Broad Failures in Oil Program
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A new report says that the department responsible for collecting billions of dollars from oil and gas companies that drill on federal lands is plagued with ethical lapses.
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The cybersecurity efforts of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in some situations do not meet federal guidelines -- leaving the agency vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to the Energy Department's Inspector General.
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The U.S. Congress comes back to town  next week to sift through the pieces of the latest oil patch  disaster -- pipeline corrosion that threatened to shut down the  giant Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska.
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NEW YORK -- The UN oil-for-food program chief, under scrutiny for alleged corruption and mismanagement, blocked a proposed audit of his office around the same time he is accused of soliciting lucrative oil deals from Iraq, investigators said. A UN auditing team, which was severely understaffed, said running the $64 billion oil-for-food program was ''a high-risk activity" and a priority ...
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Petrol retailers are baffled by claims that contaminated fuel has led to hundreds of car break-downs.
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The Coast Guard said Tuesday that investigators believe much more oil spilled from a ruptured tanker in the Delaware River near Philadelphia than the 30,000 gallons initially reported.
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Analysts said there were too many unknowns in ChevronÂs major oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico to count it as money in the bank.
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Top Democrats on the Senate Energy Committee ordered a new inquiry on Thursday into the Interior Departmentâs program to collect billions of dollars worth of oil and gas from companies that drill on public territory.
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Members of Congress, efficiency advocates and some businesses say the department's failure to mandate better energy efficiency is costing millions of dollars in higher energy costs, polluting the environment and increasing reliance on foreign energy.
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Internal audits sent to the director of the Iraq oil-for-food program uncovered extensive mismanagement of multimillion-dollar deals with contractors and fraudulent paperwork by its employees, according to copies of some of the reports obtained by The Associated Press.
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Security at Los Alamos National Laboratory was "seriously flawed" when a worker removed classified documents later found in her home during a drug bust, the Department of Energy's inspector general has concluded.
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Alaska Governor Frank  Murkowski on Wednesday suggested that BP Plc misled the state  with satisfactory maintenance reports and launched an  investigation into the oil giant's handling of its pipeline  corrosion.
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Oil wealth can often lead to corruption, according to the latest survey by anti-corruption campaign group Transparency International.
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More than 50 internal U.N. audits of the Iraq oil-for-food program flesh out a picture of widespread mismanagement of the program, adding a new dimension to a scandal that has shaken the United Nations.
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Big oil companies were able to avoid   paying the government billions of dollars in royalties normally   due on drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico because of   "bureaucratic bungling" at the U.S. Interior Department, the   department's inspector general told Congress on Wednesday.
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Oil refineries across America have been plagued by a record number of fires, power failures, leaks, spills, and breakdowns this year, causing dozens of them to shut down temporarily or trim production. The disruptions are helping to drive gasoline prices to highs not seen since last summer's records.
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Authorities struggled Saturday against adverse weather conditions to determine the extent of an oil spill from a Malaysia-flagged cargo vessel that foundered in frigid waters off Alaska&#39;s Aleutian Islands.