The Justice Department and five states on Monday announced a $20 billion final settlement of claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has reached an $18.7 ...

Ever since John Browne vowed to turn BP green ... the British oil giant has experienced a series of embarrassing mishaps. That includes major safety lapses, such as a massive oil spill in the ...

YENAGOA, Nigeria, Jan 21 (Reuters) - An ongoing oil spill at a wellhead and subsequent fire in Buguma community in Nigeria's coastal Rivers state has entered its fourth week, with no immediate ...

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 Charlottetown resident is calling on the P.E.I. government to do more to protect homeowners after reading about a recent oil spill very similar to one on his Montague property 20 years ago ...