It is unknown how much oil is on the ship, but Maritime NZ believes it's "furnace oil" which is described as dark, thick and ...

It was sunk by Germany in the Hauraki Gulf but decades later its oil has never been retrieved. Maritime NZ had been ...

Simply burning the oil, a practice that had been used with ... It is surpassed only by the intentional 1991 gulf war spill in Kuwait. The Ixtoc spill devastated local fisheries and economies.

Iraq released millions of barrels of oil into the Persian Gulf. The spill covered an area 100 miles ... Shaun Rusling: ‘It was the morning of the ground war offensive; the sun simply did not ...

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 ...

NEW YORK: BP Plc has asked a U.S. judge to direct what it called a "vast number" of businesses to repay hundreds of millions of dollars it says were wrongly awarded as compensation on claims ...

That attack, the worst in weeks, risked a major oil spill as the rebels' campaign disrupts the $1 trillion in goods that pass through the Red Sea each year over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza ...