Off-shore booms, skimmers and specialist oil containment kit have been tested ... Mr Woznicki said the last oil spill in the UK was the Sea Empress in 1996, off Pembrokeshire.

In the wake of the recent oil spill, about 200m of containment booms were deployed near Sentosa's Siloso Beach. The booms limit the spread of oil and help to concentrate the oil so that it can be ...

Volunteers in Mauritius are scrambling to create cordons to keep leaking oil from a ship away from ... said it had tried to place its own containment booms around the vessel but had not been ...

Investigations into the cause of the spill indicates operator ... bayou via pump and hose and flushing oil from the vegetation into the containment boom so that it can be recovered by skimmers ...

Containment booms were placed to protect areas such ... The International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation (ITOPF) categorises oil spills of less than seven tonnes as small.

A diesel fuel spill occurred during routine refueling operations between the USS Lake Erie and a Navy fuel barge in Apra ...

An oil spill has occurred at the Shell Petroleum ... has promptly shut down the affected pipeline and deployed containment booms to protect the neighboring communities”. Head, Public Relations ...

The accident occurred when a tanker was unloading crude oil ... spill. The company added that ”containment and control works were carried out on the slick by means of barriers and absorbent ...

It’s unclear where exactly the oil spill came from ... Brookline and Boston firefighters are using containment booms around the river to stop the oil from spreading. According to Patel, the ...

Peru’s state-owned company Petroperu was conducting last week pre-shipment manoeuvres with the Polyaigos vessel near the Lobitos district when the oil spill occurred. Petroperu said it acted ...