11.   The floating oil continues to swim about, depending on currents and wind, making monitoring of exact location and size difficult, coast guard official Shinji Sato said.

12.   The strike by members of the Norwegian Federation of Oil Unions is being expanded to cover seven floating oil rigs and an accommodations rig.

13.   This includes planes with chemical dispersant spray gear and boats with floating booms to corral the floating oil.

14.   Two more Greenpeace activists Tuesday boarded the giant floating oil storage platform that the Shell oil company, despite international protests, plans to ditch in the Atlantic.

15.   The Shell Oil Company Tuesday abruptly scrapped a controversial plan to sink a floating oil platform laden with toxic and radioactive waste in the north Atlantic.