Oil/Natural Gas Midstream Operations

BERLIN—The Nord Stream pipeline that channels Russian natural gas to Europe shut down for a scheduled maintenance on Monday, stoking fears across the continent that the Kremlin could end supplies in retaliation for…

PARIS—European manufacturers are preparing for possible natural-gas rationing that would force them to shut production amid fears that Russia is about to cut off gas deliveries via its main artery to Europe.On Monday the Nord Stream…

A disruption in the flow of Russian gas to Europe this year is suddenly all too easy to imagine.Europe’s natural-gas supply seems a lot less secure even than a few weeks ago. Last month, Moscow said it would end deliveries to Poland and…

President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, and the wave of Western sanctions in response, is starting to hit Russia’s economic engine: Its prodigious oil-and-gas industry.The U.S. and Canada have barred the…

Companies that divest from their Russian holdings will have to book hefty write-downs and face complex accounting judgments, experts say.Businesses including BP PLC, Shell PLC and…

LONDON—Some of the West’s biggest oil companies could find themselves in the crosshairs of sanctions now being drafted by their home governments against Russia.The U.S. and Europe aren’t weighing sanctions against Russian exports of oil and…

The Justice Department’s seizure of $6.1 million in funds tied to alleged ransom payments, announced alongside fresh sanctions against a cryptocurrency exchange and arrests of alleged hackers, marked an escalation in Washington’s…

CONGRESS, FEDS MAKE MOVES ON RANSOMWARE ATTACKS, but a clear fix for the expensive cybercrime epidemic is far from clear. The Senate Homeland Security Committee took a step forward on Wednesday, advancing a bill that would require hospitals…

Ransomware is likely to remain a threat to U.S. economic and national security for years to come, the country’s top military cyber official said Tuesday. Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, the director of the…

Colonial Pipeline storage tanks in Woodbridge, N.J., on May 10. A ransomware attack on Colonial shut down a major fuel…