Oil Trail Leads to 'Cement Ship': $1.7 MILLION CLEANUP STARTS
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By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 6--Two years ago, birds covered in oil kept turning up along Seacliff State Beach, a popular oceanfront park five miles south of Santa Cruz.   The Coast Guard searched for an oil spill in the ocean.
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A tanker spilled about 114,000 litres of crude oil into the Delaware River between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, creating a 32-kilometre-long slick that killed dozens of birds and threatened other wildlife, US officials said
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The U.S. Congress comes back to town   next week to sift through the pieces of the latest oil patch   disaster -- pipeline corrosion that threatened to shut down the   giant Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska.
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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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An agreement has been reached to lend 1.7 million barrels of oil from the government&#39;s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to two companies whose refineries were running short of crude
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Scientists planned to examine oil samples and the Coast Guard issued subpoenas in an investigation into who caused at least 1,000 gallons of oil to spill in Puget Sound, officials said.
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( Philadelphia -- November 28, 2004) --  Dozens of birds have fallen victim to a big oil slick on the delaware river. A tanker spilled 30-thousand gallons of crude oil into the river between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey.
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By Brian Neill, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Sep. 20--The source of a 900-gallon oil spill into Tampa Bay from Port Manatee discovered Monday has been traced to a roughly quarter-inch hole in a transfer pipe that had been leaking for more than a day.
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Chinese authorities are battling to clean up after one of the worst oil spills in the region's waters.
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By Kristi E. Swartz, The Palm Beach Post, Fla.  Sep. 20--A pinhole-sized leak may be why 900 gallons of fuel oil flowed  into Tampa Bay from a Florida Power & Light Co. off-loading terminal near the  utility's Manatee Energy Center, an FPL spokesman said Tuesday.
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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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Rough sea and bad weather have hampered efforts to deal with the oil spill from the freighter that split off the Aleutians last week.
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ANCHORAGE, United States  - An oil spill near a sensitive wildlife reserve unleashed when a freighter snapped in two off Alaska last week appears to be less serious than initially feared, officials said.
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A depot allegedly linked with "contaminated" fuel launches an investigation into whether it is to blame.
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A tanker spilled 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, creating a 20-mile-long slick
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Fuel oil was pouring out of a  Malaysian-flagged cargo vessel that grounded off an Aleutian  island and split into two nearly equal pieces, threatening a  sensitive area of marine habitat, officials said on Thursday.
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The US Coast Guard was helping to clean up an oil spill in the Delaware River near Philadelphia Saturday, hours after a vessel leaked the crude into the waterway, according to a Coast Guard spokesman.