Shell says North Sea oil leak has clammed up
Shell has said that it has discovered a second leak from its Gannet Alpha Oil platform in the North Sea.
More than 200 tonnes of oil have escaped since the first leak was discovered six days ago.
The company said it had managed to slow the release of oil to around two barrels a day but stemming the second leak is proving to be a challenge.
James Cook reports
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The oil company Shell has said a leak of crude in the North Sea has been reduced to a trickle with just two barrels per day escaping.
A pipeline linking the Gannet oilfield to the Scottish mainland 180 kilometres away sprang a leak last week causing Britain’s worst oil spill for more than a decade.
Ian Frances, from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Scotland said: “We don’t really know what kind of oil and we don’t know, critically, whether there is any concentration of birds immediately in the area. It doesn’t seem to be flowing, that information, at the moment. So there’s a risk, but we don’t know the scale of the risk yet.”
Environmental groups claim the company was not open and direct enough, pointing to a delay between the start of the leak and its being made public.
Shell countered saying the escape was centred in complicated underwater equipment and it wanted to be sure of its information before publicising the spill.
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