effectively ending litigation stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and subsequent oil spill. Former BP executive David Rainey was acquitted on charges of lying to congressional ...

Oil giant BP has agreed to pay $20bn to settle claims with the US stemming from the company's Deepwater Horizon oil spill. An explosion on BP's deep-water drill, off the coast of Louisiana in 2010 ...

We're told, at this time, the oil spill has no connection to last month's explosion. "The running speculation is that that containment center didn't hold, and there is a drain that goes out to the ...

However, offshore oceanic impacts are less well understood. The BP oil spill is introducing oil and methane gas into the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico. Previous studies on deepwater drilling ...

After crews were able to contain the leak, now environmental groups are working to learn if there was any damage done.

SaharaReporters learnt that the oil spill was reported on Monday evening and blamed on suspected equipment failure from the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) of Nigeria. A crude oil spill ...

SINGAPORE – The marine environment might recover after each oil spill incident, but too many of such events would compromise its ability to do so, said marine scientists. Singapore has had at ...

An oil spill in Nigeria's delta region has caused a fire that is yet to be contained. A subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited blames the spill on oil thieves. Accidents are ...

A massive oil spill from a wellhead of Oil Mining Lease-15 a facility of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited has ignited a fire affecting aquatic life in Buguma in the Asari-Toru Local ...

The oil spill from the Buguma Oil Field blowout has continued to spread to more communities along the New Calabar River causing damage to lands and water resources on its path. The blowout occurred ...

YENAGOA, Nigeria, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Shell (SHEL.L), opens new tab reported an oil spill on Tuesday at Ogale, near Port Harcourt, after a saver pit overflowed during flushing operations in the ...