Two Russian oil tankers with 29 crew members aboard were severely damaged in the Black Sea during a storm, resulting in an oil spill, Russian authorities have reported. Footage released by Russia’s Southern Transport Prosecutor’s Office shows one tanker, reportedly split in half and sinking, with oil streaks visible on the water’s surface. The other … Read more
Shell company has won a UK Supreme Court ruling in an Oil spillage case ruled in favor of it. The legal dispute concerned a 2011 offshore oil spill in Nigeria. The controversy originated on December 20, 2011, when allegations arose that approximately 40,000 barrels of crude oil had leaked during the loading of a tanker … Read more
The residents of Aghoro I, Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has lamented that they are been shortchanged and inappropriately compensated by the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, SPDC, for the oil spill in their community. The community slammed the oil firm for arbitrarily determining the compensation figure for the May 17, 2018 … Read more