Oil spill in North Sea began to statements about Shell

The leakage of oil through the pipeline that goes from the production platform Gannet Alpha 180 kilometers east of the Scottish city of Aberdeen, representatives of Shell announced on Friday evening. They do not call the exact amount of oil trapped in sea water. The head of government in Scotland Alex Salmond told Broadcasting Corporation BBC BBC that the sea could reach about 100 tons, or 750 barrels of oil. According to him, the volume of oil trapped in the water of the North Sea, "a very limited," but the Scottish government refers to the accident "with the utmost seriousness." According to some data, oil continues to flow into the North Sea. Shell has gradually lowers the pressure in the pipeline, reducing the amount of leakage. Representatives of the international environmental organization Greenpeace has criticized Shell for too little information about the accident. "At the moment we do not know how all this seriously, we only know that the North Sea, most likely, in complete safety, we were told that oil spills will not be", – quotes agency the representative of Greenpeace words Eylifa Ben (Ben Ayliffe) . In April 2010, at the BP oil rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, an explosion occurred, which led to a major environmental disaster in U.S. history. In the Gulf of Mexico waters poured out about 5 million barrels of oil. Stop the leakage of oil was only by August 4, 2010.