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Shell says pipeline still leaking oil into North Sea
LONDON : Oil major Royal Dutch Shell said its ruptured pipeline in the North Sea continued to leak oil on Tuesday in wha
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The company was not able to give an estimate of when it expects the pipeline to stop seeping oil, said a spokesman.
Shell said around 216 tonnes of oil, equivalent to 1,300 barrels, had leaked into the North Sea in a "significant spill", but the rate at which it was flowing had reduced to around 5 barrels a day on Tuesday.
"What I do understand is yesterday it (the visible oil slick) was half a kilometer square ... and that has been reducing overnight," the spokesman told Reuters.
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