ExxonMobil's Nigeria unit said it was investigating an oil spill near its facility off the country's southeast coast, which local fishermen said had covered the waters where they fish with a toxic film. Mobil Producing Nigeria, a joint venture between ExxonMobil and the state oil f...

An oil spill on Australia's Great Barrier Reef would cost billions of dollars — both to clean and to deal with an anti-shipping backlash, the federal government says. Transport Minister Anthony Albanese says the impact of an oil spill on the Great Barrier Reef would run to "...

Hundreds of millions of potentially toxic plastic pellets from shipping containers knocked off a vessel during Hong Kong's worst typhoon in 13 years have washed up on its beaches where they lay for more than a week, activists say. The Hong Kong government estimated that 150 tonnes of t...

Canada's Enbridge Inc. on Sunday raced to repair a major pipeline that spilled more than 1,000 barrels of oil in a Wisconsin field, provoking fresh ire from Washington over the latest in a series of leaks. The spill on Friday -- almost two years to the day after a ruptured Enbridge lin...

Taiwan's Formosa Petrochemical Corp has shut one of two residue desulphurizer (RDS) units at its 540,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery in Mailiao due to a leak, and it may restart in about a week's time, a company spokesman said on Friday. Its other RDS unit is running at full cap...