It is unknown how much oil is on the ship, but Maritime NZ believes it's "furnace oil" which is described as dark, thick and ...

Documents reveal the RMS Niagara shipwreck could cause a $200 million oil spill clean-up, and while Maritime NZ has ...

Simply burning the oil, a practice that had been used with ... It is surpassed only by the intentional 1991 gulf war spill in Kuwait. The Ixtoc spill devastated local fisheries and economies.

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 ...

Iraq released millions of barrels of oil into the Persian Gulf. The spill covered an area 100 miles ... Shaun Rusling: ‘It was the morning of the ground war offensive; the sun simply did not ...

Major oil spills can be catastrophic for seabirds and marine life. Nearly 15 years on from the biggest marine spill in history ... rig operated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven people were ...

An oil spill in northwestern Ecuador has turned a river black, prompting authorities to declare an environmental emergency amid "unprecedented" damage and to order residents to ration drinking ...

NEW YORK: BP Plc has asked a U.S. judge to direct what it called a "vast number" of businesses to repay hundreds of millions of dollars it says were wrongly awarded as compensation on claims ...

That attack, the worst in weeks, risked a major oil spill as the rebels' campaign disrupts the $1 trillion in goods that pass through the Red Sea each year over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza ...