Big North Sea oil find revealed
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A "significant" oil and gas find has been made in the North Sea west of Shetland, it is announced.
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HANOI, Vietnam - An oil spill off Vietnam has spread along 124 miles of coastline and affected popular tourist spots, but the source still remains a mystery, an official said Monday.
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Oil prices hit new highs on both sides of the Atlantic this morning as a threat by Norwegian shipowners to halt production from the world&#39;s third biggest exporter fuelled fears of a winter supply crunch.
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PHILADELPHIA-November 28, 2004 - Divers found a six-foot gash in a cargo tank on the Greek-owned tanker that leaked 30,000 of crude oil into the Delaware River, spokesmen for the Coast Guard and the vessel&#39;s owner said Sunday.
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A massive natural gas field is found off Rio de Janeiro's coastline, Brazil's state-controlled oil company says.
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The Anglo-Dutch oil firm sets out to woo investors by explaining how it will boost its oil reserves.
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The Cassini probe finds evidence for seas on Saturn's moon Titan - probably filled with liquid hydrocarbons.
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WASHINGTON -- Tests of a deep-water well in the Gulf of Mexico could indicate a significant oil discovery, three companies announced Tuesday, in the first project to tap into a region that reportedly could boost U.S. oil and gas reserves by as much as 50 percent.
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SWIFT action by Environment Agency staff helped prevent a North Wales river from being badly polluted after a tanker crash.   An estimated 4,000 litres of red diesel spilled into the Afon Elwy, near Pandy Tudur, Llanrwst, last Friday.
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Statoil ASA, a key player in oil production in the world's third-largest oil exporting nation, said Thursday that it had contained a gas leak at one of its production rigs in the North Sea, but declined to say when it would resume production.
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Norwegian oil company Statoil said Friday it had set up the biggest liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Europe in the Barents Sea.
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Investigators are testing oil wiped from the coated bodies of birds to try to determine the origin of a mysterious oil spill somewhere along a 90-mile stretch of the Southern California coast.
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One of two oil tankers that went missing laden with crude oil has been found, says the Nigerian navy.
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Divers found a six-foot gash in one of seven cargo tanks on the Greek-owned tanker that leaked 30,000 of crude oil into the Port of Philadelphia, spokesmen for the Coast Guard and the vessel&#39;s owner said Sunday.
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Hundreds of oil workers were evacuated Sunday from an oil rig in the North Sea off Scotland, the defence ministry and rescuers said, but what caused the emergency remained a mystery.
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Technology has unlocked more oil from old fields, challenging forecasts that reserves are drying out.
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The world's longest underwater pipeline is due to begin feeding gas from Norway to the UK.