A security specialist in the Western Indian Ocean sees how countries work together to counter the threat of a massive oil ...

A U.S. Coast Guard-led operation has contained an oil well's uncontrolled discharge into Louisiana's Garden Island Bay after ten days and almost 71,000 gallons.

NEW ORLEANS — An oil and natural gas spill in Plaquemines Parish has been "successfully secured", according to the Coast Guard on Sunday. The Unified Command said the team cut through the ...

For as long as there has been an oil industry, there have been oil spills. They're caused by a number of factors, from accidents to malicious acts.

A leaking well continues to spew a geyser of oil into waters off Louisiana's Gulf Coast.

More than 150 responders are actively supporting containment and cleanup efforts, which include 10 skimmers and 7800 feet (2300 metres) of containment booms, the Coast Guard said in a Tuesday update.

Contractors on Tuesday worked to try and control an 82-year-old oil well that is leaking into the marshes of southern Plaquemines Parish as response workers set up absorbent booms and ...

The spill was also detected via satellite imagery by scientists who have spent years studying oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico. Their satellite images show evidence of potential oil slicks ...

Keystone oil pipeline ruptures in North Carolina The Keystone oil pipeline was shut down Tuesday morning after it ruptured in North Dakota, with the spill confined to an agricultural field.

On Jan. 15, 2022, the largest oil spill in Peruvian history occurred when a pipeline broke during the offloading of oil from a tanker to a refinery owned by the Spanish company Repsol.

Two leaking oil wells from the 1940s have been plugged to prevent further oil spills into an Ottawa County lake.

At least one person has died after two Russian oil tankers took heavy storm damage in the Kerch Strait, spilling oil and sparking an emergency rescue operation, Russian officials told state news ...