(2) It is likely that a spill of heavy fuel oil in Antarctic waters will persist for many years and could have a major impact on any wildlife populations in the vicinity, particularly on penguins ...

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 ...

Shell Nigeria on Tuesday, reported an oil spill from its facility in Ogale, close to Port Harcourt, following the overflow of a saver pit during flushing operations in the Niger Delta region. This is ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the first time in 75 years, Kemp’s ridley sea turtle hatchlings have been observed on Louisiana's uninhabited Chandeleur Islands despite being written off as a nesting spot for sea turtles ...

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 ...

The continents, specifically Antarctica, are one of the biologically sensitive locations where oil drilling could cause irreversible harm. Environmentalists have pointed out that attention should be ...

An emergency task force arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region on Sunday as an oil spill in the Kerch Strait from two storm-stricken tankers continues to spread a month after it was first ...

An Enbridge technician first noticed the spill on Nov. 11 in the small town of Oakland while performing a standard inspection, per the U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous ...

YENAGOA, Nigeria, Jan 21 (Reuters) - An ongoing oil spill at a wellhead and subsequent fire in Buguma community in Nigeria's coastal Rivers state has entered its fourth week, with no immediate ...