Oil still gushing from Nigerian wellhead as crews battle to clean up

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Santa Barbara wellhead owner Aiteo, the petroleum minister and Nigeria’s president all promised specialist workers would quickly stop the spill

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Santa Barbara wellhead owner Aiteo said the high pressure of the leak, which started three weeks ago, made access to the wellhead difficultNembe, Nigeria — Three weeks after the Santa Barbara wellhead failed, it is still blasting water, gas and oil across Nembe in Nigeria’s Delta, littering the shoreline and water with yellow-brown clumps of waste as cleanup crews and booms struggle to contain it.

But experts say the difficulties containing it are a reminder of how the once-fertile, fish-filled creeks, mangrove swamps and waterways that criss-cross Nigeria’s Delta became some of the most polluted areas on the planet amid decades of energy exploration. Aiteo has said the high pressure of the leak made access to the wellhead difficult. In a statement on Friday, it said Halliburton subsidiary Boots and Coots would contain the leak within days and was mopping up oil with booms and barges.

“We can’t even cook in our house because we are scared we may start a fire,” he said of the gas smell that permeates the air.

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