Gash Found on Tanker in Del. Oil Spill
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Divers found a six-foot gash on the tanker that leaked 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River, creating a 20-mile-long slick that killed dozens of birds and threatened other wildlife, officials said Sunday.
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A tanker carrying about 23 million gallons of diesel oil ran aground Thursday morning off New York City's Coney Island. No oil spill or injuries were reported.
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The Border Heather's engines cut out A tanker which was drifting near Wick in "awful" weather conditions has been towed to safety.Comment
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By Dave Greber  MIDDLETOWN  --  Underground gas lines and nearby Norfolk Southern Railroad tracks are making the cleanup of a 10,000-gallon diesel fuel spill difficult, officials from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday.
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Egyptian Suez Canal authorities are trying to direct a crude oil spill away from Port Said where it could damage ships and equipment, a canal official said on Friday. The official said the authorities were attempting to direct the 20-km (13- mile) long slick, heading north toward the port, to an empty waiting area normally used by ships crossing the canal, where it could be dispersed using chemicals.
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Egyptian authorities began cleaning up what remains of a 1,500-ton oil slick caused by a tanker collision in the Mediterranean on Monday, an Environment Ministry spokesman said.
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As many as 8,000 gallons of a toxic solvent spilled into the Ohio River Wednesday after a barge hit an underwater dam, Coast Guard and Illinois state officials told CNN.
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Rough waves battered the remains of a grounded freighter Friday, causing more heavy oil to spill into the Bering Sea off the coast of Unalaska Island in the Aleutian chain.
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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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A tanker ship spilled 30,000 gallons of heavy crude oil into the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey on Friday night, leaving a
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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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Three ships, including an oil tanker, collided in Newark Bay, New Jersey, near New York City on Thursday, CNN reported.
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YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK. June 4 (Interfax) - Oil spills have been discovered near two wells operated by Russian oil company Rosneft (RTS: ROSN) in the north of Sakhalin, non-governmental organization Sakhalin Environmental Watch (EVS) said in a press release on Monday.
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By Walter Griffin, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec. 15--BELFAST -- Emergency officials estimated that approximately 1,000 gallons of gasoline spilled on Route 1 Wednesday night when a fuel tanker truck was forced off the road and rolled into a ditch.
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A section of the busy Houston Ship Channel remained closed Thursday after a chemical tanker struck a barge moored at a dock, causing several hundred gallons of fuel oil to spill into the water.
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VICKSBURG, Miss. - A barge carrying crude oil erupted into flames and drifted about 12 miles down the Mississippi River Thursday night after striking a railroad bridge.  A U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said there were no injuries and no reports of crewmen in the water after the 9 p.m.
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The Lower Delaware, site of a recent oil spill, seems as if it has been mistakenly stuck at the end of the pristine Upper Delaware.