11.   It did not say how much oil had spilled.

12.   It said officials were working to determine how much oil had spilled.

13.   Nakamura said the coast guard was still trying to determine how much oil had spilled or how much the Chun Il was carrying.

14.   Oil spills from the pipeline on Sakhalin Island to mainland Russia that were damaged by the earthquake do not pose any environmental threat, oil officials said Wednesday.

15.   The collision had left the Evoikos with a huge hole in its port side,causing oil to spill from two ruptured tanks.

16.   The men worked hurriedly in a landscape of blackened trees and the carcasses of fish, lizards and rodents killed when the oil spilled across fields and ponds.

17.   The oil spilled from the Panama-registered tanker Eastern Fortitude when it hit a rock in Rayong Bay a week ago.

18.   Under the former Soviet Union, environmental standards were lax with little government concern over nuclear accidents, massive industrialisation and oil spills.

19.   One of the tanks of the carrier was punctured and oil spilled from a small hole on the port side, an MPA statement said.

20.   The Asahi Shimbun said Saturday that Japan, China, South Korea and Russia planned to cooperate if there ws another oil spill off their coasts.