Operation Deimos

The Appeal court in Owerri orders Shell to deposit about $2 billion in an account controlled by the court within two working days.

The large spill is having a devastating effect on fishermen who depend on small daily catches to make a living.

An executive with Wisconsin manufacturing company Komatsu says the spread of oil from a spill on the Menomonee River in Milwaukee last month could have been avoided if the company had quickly notified local authorities.

A New Orleans-based fossil has agreed to turn over a US$432 million cleanup trust fund and pay an additional $43 million to settle a U.S. government lawsuit over cleaning up abandoned wells leaking into the Gulf of Mexico since 2004, The Canadian Press reported in late December.

The energy company at the center of a massive oil spill off the Orange County coast has received roughly $31 million in federal relief since 2016...

Federal prosecutors say a New Orleans-based company has agreed to turn over a $432 million trust fund and pay $43 million to settle a lawsuit over cleaning up the nation's longest-running oil spill...

A ruptured section of a trunk pipeline that belongs to the company Oleoductos del Valle (OldeVal) caused a[...]...

Phyllis Taylor’s company is responsible for the longest-running oil spill in U.S. history. That’s been a disaster for the Gulf of Mexico — but a tax bonanza for Taylor.

If you guessed $1 billion multiplied by zero, you are correct! Ms. Phyllis Taylor has reportedly paid $0 in income tax while pulling in almost half a billion dollars in income between 2004 and 2018.

Kirby Corp. has agreed to pay $15.3M in damages and other costs to resolve federal and state pollution claims from a 2014oil spill that closed the Houston Ship Channel...

It’s unclear how much oil spilled into the water, but dead fish have washed up onshore and the river’s surface was slick with rainbow-tinted sheen.

The National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) says it has rolled out strategies to tackle incessant oil spills in communities in the Niger Delta.

A Croatian flagged vessel was detained at Algoa Bay near the city of Gqeberha by the South African Maritime Safety Authority...

A massive oil spill off the coast of Peru has been devastating for local fishermen.

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Dozens of beaches near Lima were deserted and thousands of fishermen...

Oil spills penetrate into the structure of the plumage of birds and the fur of mammals, reducing its insulating ability, and making them more vulnerable to temperature fluctuations and much less buoyant in the water. 

The Center for Biological Diversity sent a letter today to Amplify Energy — operator of the offshore oil pipeline that ruptured off the California coast in October — warning that its proposed activities to restart the pipeline are unlawful without a permit to disturb marine...

The captain admitted that the vessel sailed close to the Mauritian shores so that they could get cellphone signals.

Amplify Energy Corp. and its companies that operate several oil rigs and a pipeline off Long Beach were charged by a federal grand jury with a single misdemeanor count of illegally discharging oil.

Texas AG Ken Paxton and the U.S. Department of Justice reached a settlement with barge owner Kirby Inland Marine, LP (“Kirby”) to resolve allegations that Kirby caused environmental...

Residents take to the streets to demand action after the latest spill affecting fishing communities in southern Nigeria.

One of the firm's barges spilled about 4,000 barrels of oil into the waterway in 2014.

The federal government has directed Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company (AEEPCO) to stop operation in affected oilfield spewing oil in Bayelsa State pending investigation. 

On April 20, 2018, the engine bilge room of the vessel Capt. Vincent Gann reportedly leaked 'oil and oily mixtures' into the Pago Pago harbor in American...