The department of environment‚ forestry and fisheries said between 200 and 400 litres of fuel from the receiving Liberian-flagged vessel MV Chrysanthi had spilt into the sea on Saturday.

Both BPT and JNPT have particularly indicated the potential navigation issues and environment hazard as at least two of these oil vessels — TAG 6 and TAG 22 — are lying tangled in the sea.

A senator, Magnus Abe (APC, Rivers), has blamed the slow pace of the proposed clean-up exercise in the oil-rich Ogoni land in Rivers State on insecurity.

Royal Dutch Shell last year experienced a sharp rise in the number of oil spills caused by pipeline theft in Nigeria, which the company said were the result of larger output and higher oil prices.

A major new inquiry into oil companies operating in the Niger Delta has been launched by the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu.

The controversy surrounding Ogoni clean up exercise may not have abated as civil society groups are still questioning the process being adopted by the federal authorities to remedy the sites.

The Trump administration is expected to give BP and other big oil companies more power to self-regulate their offshore drilling operations, years after investigators found that lax regulatory overs

CHENNAI: In another two months, a new coastal research vessel (CRV) equipped with state-of-the-art instruments and laboratories will help Indian scientists conduct studies in the Indian Ocean regio

China’s environment ministry has slammed a northeastern city for “turning a blind eye” to pollution from small-scale oil refining that was made illegal in 1996, underlining Beijing’s struggle to cl