Pipeline Operators to Pay $12.5M After Crude Oil Spills in Montana, North Dakota August 2, 2023 By Jack Dura BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Two pipeline operators have agreed to pay a $12.5 million civil penalty related to crude oil...
Oil Drilling in Gulf Safer, but Concerns Linger, Report Says April 5, 2023 By Seth Borenstein Thirteen years after the massive Deepwater Horizons spill fouled the Gulf of Mexico, regulators and industry have reduced some risks...
Nigerian Communities File Damages Claim Against Shell in London Court February 2, 2023 LAGOS –– More than 11,000 Nigerians from the oil-producing Niger Delta have filed a compensation claim against Shell at the...
Guyana: Satellites Will Spot Oil Spills, Not On-Ship Experts January 26, 2023 By Bert Wilkinson GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) _ Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency says it can now use satellites to monitor any oil spills in...
Report: East Africa Pipeline ‘Breaches Banking Principles’ July 6, 2022 By Ed Davey A controversial oil project that would connect oilfields in a Ugandan National Park to a port in Tanzania breaches global...
Wyoming Faces Worst Year for Oil Spills Since 2009 September 23, 2014 By MEAD GRUVER An oil boom in Wyoming has a filthy side effect: A string of accidents from a remote gulley in the...
Coast Guard Issues New Rules for Oil Vessels As Spills Increase August 28, 2014 Tighter regulation of U.S. ships carrying record exports of diesel and gasoline is coming amid the worst year for oil...
Minnesota Law Makes Railroads, Pipelines Pay for Safety May 22, 2014 A new Minnesota law aims to protect the state from hazards created by increasing amounts of oil passing through Minnesota...
Trinidad Company Fires 6 in Wake of Oil Spills February 11, 2014 Trinidad & Tobago’s state-owned petroleum company has fired six employees in the wake of a string of oil spills late...
Simulating Flow From Volcanoes and Oil Spills August 13, 2013 Some time around 37,000 BCE a massive volcano erupted in the Campanian region of Italy, blanketing much of Europe with...