Total SA (TOT) Friday said that the latest scientific flights over its North Sea platform of Elgin confirmed the decrease in the gas leak rate that forced the oil major to abandon and power down the platform.
Total SA (TOT) Friday said that the latest scientific flights over its
North
Sea
platform of
Elgin
confirmed the decrease in the gas leak rate that forced the oil major to
abandon and power down the platform.
The gas leak rate has decreased to a third of the initial estimate in its first
days at the end of March, which was around 200,000 cubic meters a day, it said.
This week, Total also flew two helicopters to the platform which confirmed that
the structure "provides a safe base from which to support the G4 [well]
control operations."
The specialized crew who boarded the platform continued to lay out equipment
and ensure that the platform systems required to support the intervention are
functional, it also said.
Total is currently working simultaneously on two options to end the leak: a top
kill job of the leaking well, from the platform, and the drilling of two relief
wells.
Workers were evacuated from the platform March 25 having detected a massive gas
leak from a well that it was trying to seal after having encountered several
issues with it over the past year.
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