Shell Shuts Nigeria’s Bonga on Possible Worst Leak in Decade
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s largest oil company, shut its 200,000 barrel-a-day Bonga field off Nigeria after a leak during a tanker loading caused what may be the country’s worst offshore spill in more than a decade.
An export line from the field’s floating production, storage and offloading vessel was probably the cause of the leak, estimated at below 40,000 barrels of crude, Shell said in a statement today. The oil flow has been halted, it said.