BP mounted a more aggressive response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as it deployed undersea sensors to better measure the ferocious flow of crude while drawing up new plans to meet a US government demand that it speed up the containment effort.

WITH each new look by scientists, the oil spill just keeps looking worse.

The Gulf of Mexico oil blow-out may have been leaking twice as much as previously thought, scientists fear.

BP says it could be tomorrow or later before it knows whether its latest attempt to clog the source of America’s largest oil spill is working.

BP downplayed the possibility of a catastrophic accident at an offshore oil rig that exploded and caused the worst spill in decades along America’s Gulf Coast, it emerged today.

An oil spill that is threatening to eclipse the Exxon Valdez disaster spread out of control and started washing ashore along America's Gulf Coast early today.

Hundreds of hotel owners, fishermen and restaurateurs feared for their livelihoods today as a giant oil slick from a wrecked rig site oozed towards America’s Gulf Coast.

Two decades after the Exxon Valdez tanker disaster, a tugboat working to prevent another oil spill in Alaska’s Prince William Sound ran aground on the same reef and left a three-mile sheen of fuel oil on the water.

South Korea’s largest oil spill reached part of the country’s scenic and environmentally sensitive western shore today, as the Coast Guard battled high waves and strong winds to keep more oil from washing up on beaches.

Lingering crude from the largest US oil spill has resisted weathering in some places almost 18 years after the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground and fouled hundreds of miles of Alaska shoreline, a new federal study concludes.

WHILE many people are aware of the financial and environmental scandal that is taking place off the cost of Mayo, they are probably unaware that Exxon Mobil has been given extensive exploration rights off the coast of Kerry, valued at up to €20 billion.

Oil traded near record highs today after the discovery of pipeline corrosion caused BP to close the biggest production field in the United States.

Oil production in Alaska has long been a concern for environmental campaigners although companies insist safety and the eco-issues are prioritised above profits.

A federal judge has cut the damages awarded against the Exxon Corporation for the Exxon Valdez oil spill by $1bn (€1bn).

A federal judge has cut the damages awarded against the Exxon Corporation for the Exxon Valdez oil spill by $1bn.

A TANKER carrying 20,000 tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas caught fire in Chinese waters east of Hong Kong yesterday, risking a huge explosion, authorities said, though the wind drove flames away from the ship's cargo area.

PICTURESQUE coastal areas hit

Picturesque coastal areas hit by the Prestige oil tanker spill were facing a fresh deluge of sludge today, with fierce winds blowing slicks in from the Atlantic.

Cleanup crews braced today for the possibility of a massive oil spill and environmental catastrophe, propping up 18 miles of floating booms around the spot where an oil tanker broke in two and sank in the Atlantic.