The Latest: Shell: Skimmers start cleanup of Gulf oil spill

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on a Shell oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (all times local):

Shell says vessels have begun skimming operations to clean up oil that leaked from a flow line at one of its drilling sites about 90 miles off the Louisiana coast.

Shell says crews are preparing to clean up an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after about 88,200 gallons of oil were released from a flow line about 90 miles off the coast of Louisiana.