A leak from an undersea pipeline network in the Gulf of Mexico released nearly 90,000 gallons of crude oil before being discovered and shut down, federal regulators said.

Royal Dutch Shell said it shut down that network after the leak was discovered and identified the source of the leak early Friday. The Coast Guard says the spill released 88,200 gallons of oil before being plugged.

That's a small fraction of what spewed into the Gulf each day during the three-month Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010, but it has given new fuel to campaigners who want to close off the Gulf to new wells.

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