By JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press 26 December 2011
ABOARD THE BONGA FLOATING OIL VESSEL (AP) The worst Nigeria offshore oil spill in more than a decade has been contained before reaching the West African nation’s coast, officials with Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Monday, less than a week after one of its lines bled crude into the Atlantic Ocean.
An investigation into how the spill of less than 40,000 barrels or 1.68 million gallons happened remains ongoing, though company officials acknowledged workers only discovered the leak after seeing a sheen of crude in water surrounding its Bonga offshore oil field.