North Sea Gas Leak ‘Would have caused a significant explosion’ Says UK Safety Watchdog Shell has been ordered to make improvements following an undersea gas leak which could have caused an offshore explosion. The leak happened when a towline snagged…
LONDON, May 11 (Reuters) - A fire hit Shell's 141,000-barrel-per-day Wesseling refinery in Germany on Sunday, but was extinguished the same day, Shell said on Monday. The refinery itself was still running, though production at some units could be impacted.…
Greenpeace activists have climbed aboard a Shell oil rig to protest the company's plans to drill in the Arctic near Alaska. The six protesters used ropes and harnesses Monday to scale the huge platform in the Pacific Ocean, tweeting images…
Despite Billion Dollar Fines Oil Spills are still happening The Amnesty International rights group has lampooned oil giants Shell and ENI over what it described as "lack of commitment" to tackling incessant oil spills in Nigeria's Niger Delta region. "Royal…
Oil firm Royal Dutch Shell was told a pipeline had reached the end of its life years before it spilled up to 500,000 barrels of oil, according to court documents seen by the BBC. Two spills in 2008 affected about…
Shell is investigating the cause of a fuel leak at its refinery in Geelong today. The facility was locked down after fire-fighters were alerted to the uncontrolled leak in the refinery's catalytic cracking unit about 5am. The company declared the…
Shell Nigeria said on June 20 that an explosion and fire caused by oil theft have forced it to shut down its Trans Niger Pipeline, which has a capacity of 150,000 barrels of crude a day. The statement said the theft…
