Growing offshore and gas exploration as well as increasing maritime traffic at Namibia's ports prompted the Ministry of Works and Transport last Friday to launch coastal sensitivity maps for oil sp

An oil leak from Seibou Deep facility operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company has been discharging crude into Ogboinbiri River in Bayelsa.

The Government of Bangladesh-UN Joint Sundarbans Oil Spill Response Mission formally released its report on the Sundarbans oil spill at the CIRDAP auditorium on Sunday, stressing the need for rules

Investigators are reviewing the cause of an oil production pipeline breach on Alaska's North Slope where upwards of 4,000 gallons (15,100 liters) of fluid spilled, state officials said on Monday.

As much as 1,500 gallons of used motor oil leaked from an above-ground storage tank in Washington state into a creek that flows into the Yakima River, vital to the apple-growing state's agricultura

Since February 2010, 1,308 dead or dying marine mammals — mostly bottlenose dolphins, including juveniles or aborted fetuses — have washed ashore on beaches and wetlands from Texas to Florida, or h

Yenagoa — Oil producing communities in Bayelsa State are scrambling for oil spill compensation forms to enable them benefit from the N3.96 billion compensation following the December 2011 Bonga oil

The government will assess impact of the proposed 1320MW coal-fired power plant on the Sundarbans after the World Heritage Centre, Paris and local environmentalists have expressed concern over sett

DHAKA : The UN expert team will share its full report on Sundarbans oil spill incident today in the city, reports UNB.

An indigenous community in Peru's biggest oil block stopped its monthlong occupation of 14 wells, while protesters in another town in the Amazonian region took control of six different wells, a nat