1.   Shipbuilders have pioneered floating oil production facilities that both keep their yards full and allow companies to tap fields in deeper waters than ever before.

2.   Some are trying to survive by building specialized vessels, such as cruise ships or floating oil rigs, instead of container ships and other cargo carriers.

3.   The falling pasta and roiling water broke the initial floating oil puddles into hundreds of droplets that dispersed in the pot and then rose only slowly to the surface.

4.   A floating orange oil fence surrounded the ship and a dozen coast guard boats patrolled nearby, warning fishing boats to keep their distance and not use lighters.

5.   At Portland harbor in southwest England, a floating oil platform with nobody aboard broke free of moorings and crashed onto rocks.

6.   Authorities used floating oil booms to halt the flow.

7.   Four Greenpeace activists on Tuesday were aboard the giant floating oil storage platform in an attempt to block the move.

8.   Greenpeace used a helicopter Tuesday to drop two more activists onto a giant floating oil storage platform that Shell plans to dump in the northern Atlantic despite international protests.

9.   He clung to a floating oil drum for nearly two hours before he was picked up by the rescuers.

10.   The floating oil drifts along with currents and wind, making monitoring of exact location and size difficult, coast guard official Shinji Sato said.