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Insurance solutions that power traditional casualty operations
With 25+ years in energy and environmental insurance, Markel provides tailored insurance solutions for oil, gas, power, and utility businesses navigating complex and evolving risks.
Reliable coverage for complex energy risks.
With broad appetite, flexible limits, and disciplined underwriting, Markel delivers responsive insurance protection designed to provide coverage for operations, people, and reputation in a fast-moving energy market.
Why is excess energy insurance important?
The energy sector faces unique and complicated risks as technology, regulations and marketplace trends evolve. The complex mechanics and potential for high risk working environments can lead to possible financial and reputational damage to your energy operation.
What we offer
Markel offers primary and excess casualty energy insurance for many types of energy facilities and contractors, including but not limited to:
Upstream
- Oil/gas lease operators
- Drilling contractors
- Oilfield equipment manufacturers
- Roustabout services
- Well servicing contractors
Midstream
- Pipeline contractors
- Pipeline operators
- Directional drilling
- Dirt work/excavation
- Tank storage maintenance/repair
Downstream
- Turnaround/industrial service contractors
- Tank storage maintenance/repair
- Refinery facilities
- Petro-chemical facilities
- LNG processing facilities
Power/utility
- Power generation, transmission and distribution (facilities)
- Power generation, transmission and distribution (contractors)
- Utility maintenance contractors
Markel offers specialized coverage on both a monoline and package basis to address risk specific to the energy industry. Some coverages available include*:
Commercial general liability
Can help insure businesses against third-party claims for bodily injury and property damage costs.
Contractors pollution liability (CPL)
Can help insure contractors against environmental, property, and bodily injury claims arising from pollution incidents—helping safeguard projects and reputations.
Energy professional liability
Can help cover errors, omissions or negligence arising from energy consulting or engineering services.
Follow form excess
Additional coverage mirroring the primary policy's coverage, but with higher limits, allowing for greater coverages on certain risks.
Site pollution environmental coverage (SPEC)
Can help site owners manage the unique environmental risks they face including exposure to clean up costs, bodily injury, property damage, legal defense, natural resource damages, mold, non-owned disposal sites (NODS), and transportation related pollution liability.
*Coverages offered may not be available to all risks.
Dedicated and responsive claims team
Markel’s energy specialists combines industry knowledge with a people-first approach. Our team is empowered to act quickly and confidently, providing dependable support when it matters most.
Policy language that works for you
Fast, flexible underwriting with the ability to customize policy language and manuscript wordings to address specific risks.
Access to in-house specialists
Our Risk Solution Services team understands the complexities of environmental exposures and provides tools to help assess and manage risk. Policyholders also get 24/7 access to our app, connecting them to 3,000+ qualified spill-center contractors for fast, effective support—anytime, anywhere.
We're here to help you protect your business and its future.
For over 25 years, Markel has been a trusted partner in the environmental and energy industry—delivering innovative insurance solutions, proactive risk management, responsive claims service and exceptional customer support. Ready to take the next step? Contact us today to learn more.
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Environmental general liability
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