Entitled "Crude Oil (Vettriano)" and sometimes called "Toxic beach," the painting first revealed by Banksy in 2005 was sold at Sotheby's in London, from the collection of Mark Hoppus, bassist with ...

Helicopters whirred overhead, and field offices set up by 20 major oil companies bulged with engineers and geological surveyors. Arcing from the Mississippi Delta westward to the Sabine River and ...