Shell Starts Cleanup After 88,000 Gallons of Oil Spill Into Gulf of Mexico

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Over 88,000 gallons of oil have spilled in the Gulf of Mexico, about 90 miles off the coast of Louisiana, Shell said in a statement.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – According to the Friday release cited by The Kansas City Star, five boats have been sent to clean up the 88,200 gallon oil spill from a Shell flow line that connects four wells and the company's Brutus platform in the Green Canyon area of the Gulf.

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"No release is acceptable, and safety remains our priority as we respond to this incident," Shell spokeswoman Kimberly Windon stressed in a statement, as quoted by the newspaper on Friday.

According to the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, there have been over 140 spills in the Gulf of Mexico in the past four years, with over 510,000 gallons of oil having spilled in the Gulf.

In April 2010, one of the worst environmental disasters in US history occurred in the Gulf of Mexico, when oil and gas giant British Petroleum’s (BP) Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded killing 11 people and spilling millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf.

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