Growing up in Aberdeen, Scotland, the shadow of the Piper Alpha disaster loomed large over our community. The tragic ...

Or, as the WaPo put it, "roughly one Valdez spill every week." So, how much gasoline has been wasted by all that oil escaping into the ocean? One way to measure it is the way Green Car Reports did ...

An oil slick stretching several kilometres has been detected and the Philippine Coast Guard was preparing to apply dispersants and deploy floating barriers to contain the spill. Coast guard ...

"It is not just about the light oil slick you see on the surface of the water caused by the spill. "There will also be soluble compounds from the oil that will dissolve in the water, a mousse-like ...

The ship had notified the Coast Guard that it had inadvertently pumped “25 gallons of oil from bilges” over the side. While ...

SINGAPORE: The entire stretch of beach at East Coast Park has been reopened for all water activities, including swimming and ...

An oil slick has been reported from a Barbados-flagged bulker grounded in a storm off Taiwan. The 79,500-dwt panamax Blue ...

TELDE, Sept 5 (Reuters) - An oil spill off the Spanish island of Gran ... Antonio Morales, the oil slick was approximately 2 km (1.2 miles) long and 400 m (1,300 feet) wide. Morales said the ...

View of Crescent Midstream oil spill in Bayou Lafourche July 27, from behind Holly Marie's Seafood Market in Raceland LA.

It follows the spill of three tons of fuel oil that occurred ... given that there is a risk that the oil slick could reach their coasts. Mr Brink stressed "the full willingness of the Cabildo ...

Rough weather conditions are complicating crews’ efforts to contain the oil slick. State of Florida Governor ... because of the threat from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.