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Oil leak capped in Ogoniland

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    The latest environmental emergency in southern Nigeria’s volatile Niger Delta has been brought under control by US specialists, Royal/Dutch Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary said on Monday. The three specialists from the Houston-based Boots & Coots International Well Control company were flown in on Friday to the affected area, Yorla Fields, to deal with a blow-out at a well which shot jets of crude oil and gas 30 metres into the air for the better part of last week. They brought it under control and re-capped it on Sunday, Shell officals said. “The spill has stopped. The next step will be to establish the cause and do the clean up,” a Shell spokesman told IRIN. “The indications are that it was caused by sabotage.”

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