the type of oil, the weather, the sea state, and how far out the spill is.' Experts say floating barriers, oil-dispersing chemicals, and even giant sponges could be used to hold back the spreading ...

The rupture of Ecuador's SOTE crude pipeline earlier this month spilled over 25,000 barrels of oil, the country's national ...

Colombian energy giant Ecopetrol has polluted hundreds of sites with oil, including water sources and biodiverse wetlands, ...

Now, as that jet fuel leaks into the Humber Estuary, scientists and marine pollution experts have revealed how rescue teams could tackle the growing oil spill. Experts say floating barriers ...

the type of oil, the weather, the sea state, and how far out the spill is.' Experts say floating barriers, oil-dispersing chemicals, and even giant sponges could be used to hold back the spreading ...

On April 20, 2010, an explosion occurred on British Petroleum’s offshore drilling rig (a machine that drills holes into the earth’s surface to drill oil and construct wells) in the Gulf of ...

A Louisiana island that provides critical nesting habitat for pelicans and other seabirds is being restored to nearly its former size after decades of erosion and a crippling 2010 oil spill.

But just a few months later, an oil spill changed their neighborhood. Last September, MOL, Hungary’s leading gas and oil company, detected a drop in the pressure of one of their pipes.

Ecuador's state oil company Petroecuador declared on Tuesday force majeure on its SOTE pipeline due to what it described as a landslide that provoked an oil spill, according to a statement from the ...

A lorry carrying crude oil from Chile to Bolivia for refining overturned in Lauca National Park, Arica, Chile, spilling ...

HAKODATE, Hokkaido—Fuel oil has leaked from a 3,919-ton tanker that ran aground here on Jan. 6, but its cargo of 3,800 kiloliters of diesel fuel and kerosene did not spill out, authorities said.

The National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency has reported an oil spill from Shell’s underwater pipeline in Obololi, Southern Ijaw Local Government area of Bayelsa State. This is as it ...