LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell said it had moved closer to stemming Britain's biggest oil spill for over a decade by closing a valve from which crude had been seeping for over 8 days. "Closing ...

LONDON: Royal Dutch Shell said it had moved closer to stemming Britain's biggest oil spill for over a decade by closing a valve from which crude had been seeping for over 8 days. "Closing the valve is ...

The sheen from an oil spill at Shell's Gannet Alpha platform has swelled even as the company revealed it has shut a relief valve on a leaking flowline at the North Sea facility. UK authorities warned, ...

There has been no further oil leak from a flowline valve which was shut at Shell’s Gannet Alpha platform in the North Sea on Friday, the company reported. Close monitoring of the valve is, however, to ...

A relief valve close to the faulty pipeline at Shell's Gannet Alpha oil platform in the North Sea appears to be the source of a secondary leak that is adding to the worst oil spill in UK waters in a ...

Rowena Mason 19 August 2011 • 6:41pm Shell’s work is not over as it will have to remove oil trapped in the pipeline between the sealed off well and the platform. The Marine Coastguard’s latest ...