The first was a huge oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara,California.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

They're start off by frying potatoes, then put the remaining oil into this system to be converted into useable energy.

VOA: standard.2010.04.25

Three times a day,crews take off from the Coast Guard station in Clearwater to search for oil.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

Off in the distance, reminders of how prominent the oil industry is here.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

President Obama says he is angry and frustrated by oil executives' response to the catastrophic spill, after a BP oil rig blew up last month off the Louisiana coast.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

"There's a nut on the inside of the oil pan. The bolt came out. But the nut was not welded corectly to the oil pan,so the nut fell off.

VOA: standard.2010.08.01

Several miles off the Eastern Louisiana coast these barrier islands are all that stand between treasured wetland habitats and the giant oil slick adrift in the Gulf of Mexico.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

GM's Larry Nitz, "For Americans, we're getting off foreign oil.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Off the coast of Louisiana, thick patches of goopy oil.

VOA: standard.2010.06.08

It arrested two Swiss businessmen, threatened to cut off crude oil deliveries, withdrew its money from Swiss banks, and told Swiss International Air Lines it could no longer fly to Tripoli.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

(SAYING) But Ochoa admits that continued oil revenues, even if insufficient to cover mounting government expenditures, will allow President Chavez to put off, any day of reckoning that may loom ahead.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

BP's losses for the past quarter amount to some $17 billion, due to having to set aside more than $32 billion for costs linked to the oil spill off the U.S.coast in the Gulf of Mexico.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

"Someone could attack the industrial control systems that control all the valves, all the distribution systems, and are used to turn on and off various aspects involved with energy and the electrical power grid and oil and gas distribution networks,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.11