The Brazilian government has ordered Chevron to shut one of its 11 production wells in an important offshore field where the company suffered an oil leak last month.

Oil spillage from a foreign vassal contaminated more than one squire kilometre area of the Bay of Bengal at the outer anchorage of Chittagong Port on Wednesday.

Two units of France's Total have appealed a Djibouti court sentence to pay 204 million euros ($272 million) in damages and fines in a pollution case dating back to 1997, a spokesman for the group s

Brazilian federal police have opened a probe into U.S. oil giant Chevron over alleged pollution linked to an oil spill at its offshore Frade project.

Oil giant Chevron halted drilling of a well off the coast of Brazil as it looks into the possible causes of an oil spill in the region.

Exxon Mobil's response to a July oil spill into the Yellowstone River in Montana will cost a total of $135 million, the company said on Friday.

Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that sank in the Gulf of Mexico last year, is planning to take further legal action against BP as it seeks to prove that the British comp

China plans inspections of coastal regions for potential pollution risks from oil spills, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

To ensure speedy and effective response in the event of an oil spill, city-based Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) intends to put in place an experimental ocean oil spi

A stranded cargo vessel off the east coast of New Zealand's North Island has spilled more oil into the ocean, as efforts to pump the remaining oil off the ship are hampered by bad weather, Maritime