Singapore suffered the worst marine oil spill in its history when a very large crude carrier (VLCC) collided with an oil tanker late on Wednesday (15/10). Officials estimated that 25,000 tonnes of marine fuel oil had been spilt following...

HEADLINE: Barton accuses White House of shaking down BP CAPTION: Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, accused the White House of conducting a "$20 billion shakedown" by requiring oil giant BP to establish a fund to compensate those hurt by the...

AP Television Kerch Strait 1. Wide aerial of ships on sea 2. Mid shot of pilot 3. Aerial of ships 4. Emergency situations ministry worker looking out the window 5. Half sunk ship in the water 6. Tracking shot along surface of the...

Returning from a helicopter trip over the vast Usinsk oil spill Alaska's governor Walter Hickel said on Wednesday (2/11) high-level Washington officials would be involved in assessing the scale of the environmental disaster. 0.00 Long...

Authorities in the northern Russian city of Usinsk have finally admitted they cannot cope with the size of the oilspill. They called for back-up from throughout Russia and the CIS and help started to arrive Monday (31/10). An early...

1. Various wide shots of ships at sea 2. Wide shot of jetty 3. Mid of boat moored at jetty, men loading plastic bags on boat 4. Wide of embankment 5. SOUNDBITE (Russian): Vladimir Ivanov, Deputy Chief, Crimean Regional Administration for...

Eng/Spanish/Nat The winds off the coast of Ecuador have shifted, pushing a diesel fuel spill away from the fragile Galapagos Islands. Ecuador's environment minister says the wind and the tide are pushing the 170-thousand gallon spill...

Greenpeace says it will appeal the Russian court rulings that sent its activists to jail for a protest near an oil platform in the Arctic. On Thursday, the court in the northern Russian city of Murmansk jailed 28 Greenpeace activists...

French/Nat The French Prime Minister, Lionel Jospin, visited the Brittany coast on Saturday in a effort to reassure locals and holiday makers of the safety of the beaches after an oil spill in December. He confirmed the government's...

HEADLINE: Top kill effort proceeds as MMS director fired CAPTION: BP hopes to know by Thursday afternoon whether its latest attempt to plug a blown-out undersea well with heavy mud may finally slow the oil that's been gushing into the...

Spanish/Nat Several thousand fishermen, ecologists and politicians circled Lake Maracaibo - the heart of Venezuela's oil industry - on Thursday to protest a recent oil spill. Local fishermen were left with nothing to catch after a...

Hopedale, Louisiana - 2 May 2010 1. Varopis of fishermen on a boat laying boom on the water 2. Close up of boom in water 4. Mid shot of boat and boom in water 5. Fishermen in boat 6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Charles Robin, Fisherman: "We're...

1. Firefighter opening front door to flood-damaged home and breaking in with an axe 2. Pan of flooded street 3. Wide shot of basketball net and damaged homes in water 4. Pan of flood-damaged homes with visible line left by oily water 5....

Muxia 1. Pan across cove hit by oil slick 2. Close up man trudging through oil on the shore 3. Wide shot oil slick in water 4. Various oil slick in water 5. Wide shot environmental volunteers trying to catch bird covered in oil 6. Close...

Galapagos Islands - File 1. Iguana on shore, with sunken oil tanker in the background Santa Fe Island, Ecuador - June 2002 2. Iguana entering water and swimming over sunken tyres 3. Iguana on shore Galapagos Islands - File 4. Sunken oil...

Spanish/Nat Environmentalists have expressed relief over the limited impact of the oil spill in the Galapagos Islands on wildlife. Only one pelican and two seagulls are known to have died. Still, dozens of other birds and marine animals...

1. Medium shot of helicopter flying over oil platform 2. Aerial of Gulf of Mexico coast 3. Medium shot interior of helicopter 4. Aerial of boats spraying water onto the blazing platform 5. Medium shot of helicopter pilot flying over the...

HEADLINE: Congressman breaks down during oil hearing CAPTION: Louisiana Congressman Charlie Melancon broke down during a House Energy subcommittee meeting Thursday morning talking about the BP Oil spill and the coastal damage the spill...

English/Nat Hundreds of penguins - victims of an oil spill off the coast of South Africa - have been saved by a remarkable air-sea rescue mission. The country's air force picked up the flightless birds and flew them to an emergency ...

HEADLINE: Raw Video: New spill in the Gulf spews oil CAPTION: A tow boat slammed into an abandoned well north of a bay that had already been hit by crude from the Gulf oil spill. It sent a plume of oil and gas spewing into the air....

Buras, Louisiana - 15 December 2010 1. Zoom out of Reddick family in front of Christmas tree, UPSOUND: (English) "Merry Christmas" 2. Close-up of family members reflected in bauble on Christmas tree 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennifer...

English/Nat Shell, one of the world's largest oil companies, has set up a community project across the Niger Delta which it hopes will heal the rift between big business and the many poor Nigerians who live in the area. In the past,...

HEADLINE: Deep-sea ice crystals stymie oil leak fix CAPTION: A setback for stemming the oil leak in the Gulf. A BP official says ice crystals have formed inside of the oil containment box that was placed over the massive oil leak. That's...

Span/Eng/Nat An oil spill expert arrived on San Cristobal Island on Thursday to assist in the operation to clean up thousands of litres of oil that spilled into the sea after a tanker ran aground. Ron Goodman, who was called upon as in...