Company finds more oily mud
By Zhou Yan and Wang Qian | China Daily | Updated: 2011-08-04 08:01
A man points to oil on the beach in Laoting county, Hebei province, on July 26. The oil is suspected to have come from the oilfield spill in Bohai Bay. Zhu Jialei / for China Daily |
BEIJING - ConocoPhillips China, the operator of two leaking oil platforms in Northeast China's Bohai Bay, said on Wednesday that it had discovered more oil-based drilling mud near a leaking platform - a discovery that may push up the volume of its oil spill to a new high.
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