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Chevron And Shell Fight Oil Spills In Brazil And Nigeria | Oil giants Chevron and Shell are fighting oil spills around the world as they look to expand drilling in the United States. “Chevron halted drilling of a well off the coast of Brazil as it looks into the possible causes of an oil spill in the region,” Reuters reports. “Shell said on Sunday it was containing a new oil spill in Nigeria’s onshore delta, the latest in a string of leaks from the company’s pipelines, which it has blamed on sabotage attacks and oil theft.”

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