However, offshore oceanic impacts are less well understood. The BP oil spill is introducing oil and methane gas into the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico. Previous studies on deepwater drilling ...

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 ...

BP has been fined £7,000 over an oil spill during which 95 tonnes of crude oil was discharged off Shetland. Investigators found that a "process failure" led to the incident at the Clair Platform ...

Vast stretches of Russian coast have been tarred by heavy fuel oil from two freighters that foundered in a storm.