Numerous design changes have been implemented in the last many years however, the problem of oil spillage is still a challenge.

It was Britain's third largest oil spillage and the twelfth largest in the world at the time.

One is to strike oil, because the Resolution has no way of capping a well and preventing an oil spillage.

The remainder were largely due to sewage, industrial pollution or oil spillages.

"So there's going to be a massive oil spillage?"

The booms, which were due to be removed yesterday absorbed the oil spillage and stopped it from flowing downstream.

The airport is also one of the main bases which holds chemicals to deal with large oil spillages in Scotland and the North.

Clifton beach suffered from a recent oil spillage but the beach has been cleaned.

The Commission' s proposal concentrates primarily on oil spillages at sea.

Shell, recently fined over £1m for an oil spillage, got into more trouble.