Oil Spills

Oil Pipe Cleaning
Do you remember the Canadian pipeline oil spill and the pollution it caused? The crude oil carrying pipelines are the lifeline of our economy. Clean pipes maintain a steady flow of oil through them. To know more about the oil pipe cleaning, read on...

Major Oil Spill Causes Problems in the San Francisco Bay
A container ship which crashed into the San Francisco Bay Bridge caused the largest oil spill the area has seen since 1988, dumping 58,000 gallons of crude "bunker fuel" into the bay.

Oil-Covered Penguins Cleaned Up, Returned to the Ocean
Dozens of penguins were returned to the ocean this week after being rescued from an oil spill in May.

Philippines Appeals for Help With Oil Spill
An oil slick in the central Philippines that has devastated more than 100 miles of coastline is likely to spread much further unless international help is deployed quickly to salvage the ship that caused the disaster, officials warned today.

Exxon Told to Pay $7bn for Oil Spill
ExxonMobil was yesterday ordered to pay nearly $7bn (£3.8bn) to thousands of Alaskans affected by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. In the latest decision in a long-running legal saga, a district court judge in Anchorage ordered the company to pay $4.5bn in punitive damages and around...

Spanish Seafood 'poisonous From Oil Spill'
Pollution from the oil tanker Prestige, which sank a year ago, may make fish dangerous for 10 years, WWF warns.

Fears of Massive Oil Spill As Karachi Tanker Cracks
Pakistan fears oil spill disaster. Pakistani port officials warned yesterday that they faced a major oil spill along the southern coastline after a tanker that ran aground in heavy storms began to crack open.

Oil Spill Causes More Than 2,500 Birds to Die
Oil spilled from a Chinese freighter after the ship collided with a Polish vessel in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Sweden has caused the deaths of more than 2,500 birds.

Free Travel for Oil Spill Volunteers
As fresh slicks from Prestige wash ashore, Iberia offers plane tickets to clean-up crews.

Spain Asks Eu to Pay for £650m Oil Mop-up
The ecological disaster provoked by the spill from the oil tanker Prestige, which sank off the coast of Spain two months ago, will cost a billion euros to clear up and, if the Spanish government has its way, the whole of Europe will end up paying for it. "Our initial economic evaluation,...

Owner of Tanker's Cargo Protests Its Innocence
The British-based company whose oil was spilled on Spanish beaches as a result of the Prestige sinking hid from green protesters yesterday. Crown Resources could end up having to pay millions in compensation, and has brought in the City lawyers Clyde & Co to defend its interests...

Timebomb Under the Ocean
Oil-laden tanker sinks beneath swirling sea as accusations begin to fly.

Stricken Oil Tanker Breaks in Half
A leaking oil tanker carrying more than 70,000 tonnes of fuel broke in two this morning off Spain's north-western coast. The Bahamas-flagged Prestige, which began spilling oil last Wednesday, split in half about 152 miles off Spain's Galician coast, in a development which...

Oil Spill Could Be Spain's Worst for a Decade
Spain was bracing itself for an environmental disaster last night as a tanker carrying 77,000 tonnes of fuel began spilling oil while struggling to save itself from sinking off the north-west Atlantic coast. The Bahamas-registered Prestige was listing heavily with waves sweeping across...

Marine iguanas hit by oil slick
The unique marine iguanas of the Galapagos islands have been devastated by the aftermath of an oil spill, scientists say, losing almost two thirds of their number on one island since a tanker ran aground in January last year.