
oil spill


Gothenburg recovers after mystery oil spill
A major oil spill occurred overnight in Gothenburg, with officals still unclear of the source on Monday morning.
Oil spill cleanup after train hits garbage bin
Several hundred litres of oil leaked out of a commuter train in Lerum outside Gothenburg after it drove over a garbage bin that police suspect could have been deliberately placed on the tracks.
Fine weather aids oil spill clean-up
Clean-up work following the oil spill off Sweden's west coast was helped by good weather conditions, and on Saturday evening roughly 35 tonnes of oil had been taken out of the water at Tjörn, an island north of Gothenburg.
BP shareholders call for Svanberg’s head: report
Several major BP shareholders are urging the embattled firm to eject Swedish chairman Carl Henric Svanberg as soon as the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is capped, the Financial Times reports.
Profile: BP's 'invisible' Swedish chairman
<b>When Carl-Henric Svanberg jettisoned telecoms giant Ericsson for British Petroleum last year, he could not in his worst nightmares have forecast the severity of the spotlight in which he now finds himself, writes AFP's Odile Duperry.</b>
'Ethical' Nordea funds dump BP holdings
Nordea's committee for responsible investment decided on Friday to divest its holdings in BP in all of its 'ethical' profile funds.
BP's Svanberg breaks silence on oil spill
BP's Swedish Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg has broken his silence on last month's Gulf of Mexico spill, addressing Swedish media about the tragedy for the first time.