The Justice Department and five states on Monday announced a $20 billion final settlement of claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has reached an $18.7 ...

Offshore drilling is a direct result of the growing global appetite for oil and gas. At present, ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico are being exposed to an oil spill larger in magnitude and scope ...

SINGAPORE – The marine environment might recover after each oil spill incident, but too many of such events would compromise its ability to do so, said marine scientists. Singapore has had at ...

A lot of us longtime Floridians commemorate big events with special T-shirts. Looking back through the collection in our closet is like having a photo album made of 100% cotton. Tom Petty Concert 1995 ...

SaharaReporters learnt that the oil spill was reported on Monday evening and blamed on suspected equipment failure from the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) of Nigeria. A crude oil spill ...

Thailand's PTT Exploration and Production said on Tuesday it was looking at BP's assets in Vietnam but had not appointed ...

Poppy, a six-year-old springer spaniel with floppy brown ears and a tail that never seems to stop wagging, is by all accounts a very good dog. Her white, brown speckled nose has also made her ...

YENAGOA, Nigeria, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Shell (SHEL.L), opens new tab reported an oil spill on Tuesday at Ogale, near Port Harcourt, after a saver pit overflowed during flushing operations in the ...

An oil spill in Nigeria's delta region has caused a fire that is yet to be contained. A subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited blames the spill on oil thieves. Accidents are ...

This followed a massive oil/gas spill fire eruption on NNPC facility, oil well 8, and Oil Mining Lease(OML)-18, operated by NNPCL, in the community last week, causing massive destruction on the ...

A massive oil spill from a wellhead of Oil Mining Lease-15, a facility of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, has ignited a fire affecting aquatic life in Buguma in the Asari-Toru ...