2,418 Oil spills reported in seven years by Agip

The Nigerian Ministry of Petroleum Resources released a statement last week stating that 2,418 oil spills were recorded in the Nigerian Agip Oil Company’s operations between 2010 and 2016.

$2 million of losses in Costa Rica in May alone

Authorities of the Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) in Costa Rica, captured a band that was stealing product from a pipeline.

4,800 gallon pipeline leak in Colorado, USA

A broken Chevron Corporation pipeline has spilled around 4,800 gallons of oil that has flowed into an intermittent stream on public land in northwest Colorado, USA.

500K gallon pipeline rupture caused by hillside slumping

The Belle Fourche pipeline that leaked into a small tributary of the Little Missouri river on 5 December 2016 is now estimated to have spilled over 500,000 gallons of oil.

$50 oil is here to stay if OPEC sticks to its deal

It was a roller coaster year for oil prices. And little wonder.