Before O.C. oil spill, platform owner faced bankruptcy, history of regulatory problems Oil platforms Elly, left, and Ellen stand about nine miles offshore from Huntington Beach in this image taken ...

A 12,000-Barrel Oil Pipeline Spill Exposes Years of Lax ... US regulators warned that the type of weld that would go on to trigger the worst spill in Keystone’s history had a pattern of failure.

We have a bad spill every 10 to 20 years that gets the world's attention," said Joe Pratt, ...

More than 5,000 gallons of oil had been removed from the water as of Wednesday, but light oil remains along roughly 15 miles of shoreline. Officials deployed 11,360 feet of boom to protect the ...

An estimated 144,000 gallons of oil leaked from an offshore facility. A major oil spill off the coast of Southern California has forced Huntington Beach and activities scheduled to take place in ...

"The spills of 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022, which resulted in reported releases of 400, 6,592, 4,515, 442, 12,937 barrels of crude oil, respectively, show a tendency or pattern in recent ...

An oil tanker suffered an explosion off Libya's coast without causing injuries or pollution, sparking speculation about a ...

How pollution may remain in water after oil spill cleanups Date: July 18, 2024 Source: University of Illinois Chicago Summary: The way oil drops break up at the water's surface means some oil may ...

The oil industry needs to create a safety organization modeled on one that has improved operations at nuclear-power plants, the co-chairman of a presidential commission investigating the Gulf of ...

Yet despite improvement, pipelines remain imperfect. In the United States, a pipeline spill occurs nearly every day, with over 1,400 accidents in America between 2010 and 2013.Historian Sean ...

President Barack Obama, accompanied by National Incident Commander Adm. Thad Allen, makes a statement after being briefed on the BP oil spill relief efforts in the Gulf Coast region on June 4, 2010.