Shell Reports US Gulf Fluid Spill

摘要

The US Coast Guard has been investigating a 13,000-gallon spill from an oil rig leased to Shell, operating about 26 miles southeast of last year’s BP Macondo oil well disaster. The spill of either drilling fluid or oil mixed with drilling fluid was reported Sunday by Transocean’s Deepwater Nautilus rig, which was drilling a well at Shell’s Appomattox discovery. “Shell can confirm it has a loss of 319 bbl of drilling fluid,” Shell spokeswoman Kelly op de Weegh said by e-mail.