Robert Dudley’s second $7-billion deal this year signals a shift for BP Plc toward the world’s fastest-growing economies as exploration drilling remains closed in the US after the Macondo oil spill. Dudley, the first American chief executive officer of the London-based company, agreed on Tuesday to pay Reliance Industries $7.2 billion to help explore deepwater fields in India.

In an epic environmental case, an Ecuadorean judge ruled on Monday that Chevron Corp was responsible for oil drilling contamination in a wide swath of Ecuador

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) that had taken up the task of cleaning the Mumbai shoreline following the oil spill caused by the collision of MSC Chitra and MV Khalijia 3 in August last year, said on Monday that it had completed the process of bioremediation along the Navy Nagar Coast, with 90 per cent success.

The New Delhi-based institute was appointed to carry out partial clean-up

PARADIP: Tension mounted at Sandhkuda area over eviction of 445 families from the slum area for construction of sea surge protection wall and laying of pipeline of oil refinery project of IOC.

In the review meeting held last week, State Chief Secretary Bijya Pattnaik directed the district administration to evict these families at the earliest to make way for laying of pipeline for oil refinery

PARADIP: Leakage of acid water from the Paradeep Phosphates Limited (PPL) pipelines has posed a threat to the aquatic life affecting the livelihood of over 500 fishermen here.

The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) on Monday submitted its interim report on the effects of last August

BHUBANESWAR: A crack in a pipeline of the Indian Oil Corporation has caused the death of hundreds of fishes in nearby water bodies, about 1.5 km from company's storage point at Paradip.

A two-member team of the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) rushed to the spot and assessed the damage caused by the leak.

Chief Manager (maintenance) of IOCL's refinery project at Paradip, N.K.

Hundreds of acres of prawn gheries and river creeks were affected due to leakage of crude oil from the Halidia-Paradip pipeline of the Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) near Sandhkud under Kujanga tehsil in Jagatsinghpur district.

According to sources, on Thursday night, the pipeline leaked with oil spreading into Kaudia river and creeks.

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill last year raises concern that Britain may not be prepared to deal
with a disaster in Scottish waters, UK lawmakers said.

Parliament

Decisions intended to save time and money created an unreasonable amount of risk that triggered the largest offshore oil spill in the US history, a disaster that could happen again without significant reforms by industry and the government, the presidential panel investigating the BP blowout concluded on Wednesday.

The commission findings