... Nembe Chiefs Council, Chief Nengi James-Eriworio, the blast early on Friday caused massive oil spillage in the Nembe kingdom in Bayelsa state.
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4 November 2018. A Peruvian oil executive warned Wednesday of "catastrophe" after indigenous residents cut a major pipeline in a region of the Amazon, triggering the spill of 8,000 barrels of oil.
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4 February 2018. The Sanchi disaster is even worse than many initially expected, according to a chilling new report published by Britain's National Oceanography Centre that shows the ship's cargo - ...
16 January 2018. Condensate is highly toxic but readily evaporates or burns off in a fire. If trapped underwater, however, it could seriously harm the marine environment, while the ship’s fuel source ...
13 January 2018. The Iranian oil tanker that collided with another vessel in the East China Sea is now drifting towards the Japanese exclusive economic zone due to strong winds, according to emerging ...
16 September 2017. Greek authorities continued to struggle on Friday to clean up an oil spill that occurred last Sunday when an oil tanker sank near the country’s main port, Piraeus, with the fuel now ...
16 September 2017. In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, more than 22,000 barrels of crude oil, refined products, and chemicals spilled at various sites in Texas, according to company reports to the ...
4 October 2016. The spill from the Clair platform is being monitored from the air by plane which, combined with modelling, shows the oil moving away from land in a northerly direction.
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25 September 2016. Mexico’s state-owned oil company says it is working to extinguish a blaze aboard a loaded tanker in the Gulf of Mexico. The tanker Burgos was carrying about 168,000 barrels of gasoline ...
13 May 2016. A 2,100-barrel oil spill in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico forced Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday to shut in all wells that flow to its Brutus platform, federal regulators said. The U.S. Bureau ...
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6 October 2015. The Deepwater Horizon disaster, which released nearly 134 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, is largely considered to be the worst oil spill in U.S. history. ...
3 October 2015. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration released its final report on the Pegasus pipeline leak that spilled roughly 3,190 barrels of oil near Mayflower and Lake Conway ...
25 June 2015. Exxon Mobil Corp has been forced to halt operations at three offshore oil platforms because it could not deliver to refineries in the wake of a broken pipeline that spilled up to 101,000 ...
23 May 2015. The crude oil spill, from a pipeline along the coast just north of Santa Barbara, has resulted in the closure of two beaches and local fisheries, and damaged the sensitive habitat of endangered ...
21 May 2015. Statoil ASA said a Feb. 18 condensate leak at its Gudrun platform in the North Sea could have been much worse, even fatal, if anyone would have been present at the time.
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21 May 2015. Up to 105,000 gallons of crude oil may have leaked from a burst pipeline in a town near Santa Barbara on Tuesday, according to the company that owns the pipeline.
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20 May 2015. A ruptured pipeline in Goleta leaked an estimated 21,000 gallons of crude oil Tuesday, some of which flowed into the ocean off Santa Barbara County, authorities said.
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16 May 2015. A decade-old oil leak where an offshore platform toppled during a hurricane could continue spilling crude into the Gulf of Mexico for a century or more if left unchecked, according to ...
2 April 2015. A huge blaze twisted and blackened an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, but the state-run Pemex oil company said it managed to avert any significant oil spill.
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24 January 2015. Up to 50,000 gallons of oil spilled on Saturday from a break in a 12-inch pipeline owned by Wyoming-based Bridger Pipeline Co. Elevated levels of benzene were found in samples taken from ...
18 January 2015. According to a US judge, more oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico after the deadly rig explosion in 2010 than estimated by BP. This verdict could probably cost the company $13.7bn.
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27 December 2014. A leak on a major Russian oil pipeline caused a spill in the Black Sea near the port of Tuapse on Wednesday, where officials said stormy weather was hampering efforts to assess and respond ...
5 December 2014. Millions of liters of oil gushing out of a breached pipeline flooded a desert nature reserve in Israel overnight, causing one of the country's worst environmental disasters, officials ...
28 November 2014. It was a massive oil spill in 2011 off the Nigerian coast. Now after assessing environmental damage from the disaster at Shell’s offshore Bonga field, the country’s National Assembly ...
... land. They are worried about an oil spill into the Ogallala Aquifer, one of the largest aquifers in the world.
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15 November 2015. Court documents revealed by Amnesty International today expose the fact that Shell has repeatedly made false claims about the size and impact of two major oil spills at Bodo in Nigeria ...
12 October 2014. What was first reported as a 15,000-litre crude oil spill at the Jean-Gaulin refinery in Lévis, announced by the Quebec environment ministry earlier Saturday in a press release.
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30 August 2014. A utility says it will stop burning coal at a southwest Ohio power plant that was the site of a recent oil spill into the Ohio River. Charlotte, North Carolina-based Duke Energy says it ...