Nonetheless, in our view the potential is low for this leak to escalate to a crisis on the scale of Deepwater Horizon. Another comforting factor is that the methane surrounding the drilling platform apparently doesn't originate from what is actually the major reservoir 5, meters 17, feet below the sea floor but, rather, from what is hopefully a smaller deposit at a depth of roughly 4, meters. Two helicopter trips were made this week to the Elgin platform during which Total and Wild Well Control teams were able to confirm that the Elgin PUQ provides a safe base from which to support the G4 well control operations. At present surveillance aircraft have confirmed a sheen on the water around the platform. MSL Oilfield Services. Kemostal has extensive experience in designing and implementing customised compressor packages for oil and gas, chemical process, and industrial gas companies throughout the world. Early options to plug the leak could include drilling a relief well or sending a specialised team onto the platform to try and cap the leak. If no plugging is achieved, this leak is likely to continue for ten to 12 years. Thought to be gas condensate, it is a direct consequence of the leak and usually evaporates naturally, Total said. The gas alarm sounded shortly after noon and the emergency evacuation started just moments later on the Elgin drilling platform in the North Sea.

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A natural gas leak has forced French oil giant Total to shut down its Elgin platformone of two platforms which make up the Elgin-Franklin field. Elgin leak poses massive challenge An oil giant's share price tumbling. And BP's first few attempts to block the leak with drilling mud - a. Oil company Total is fined a record £m for failings that caused one First picture showing gas leaking from a pipe in the Elgin platform in.
Nonetheless, in our view the potential is low for this leak to escalate to a crisis on the scale of Deepwater Horizon.

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Image courtesy of Total. According to an early statement from Total, internal emergency procedures were launched immediately and Crisis Management Teams have been mobilised in Aberdeen and Paris. But in the long run, they have sparked worries about how well the many planned North Sea drilling projects that involve deeply buried reservoirs can really be controlled.

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Nevertheless, Total has still lost complete control over the platform. Gas leak at Elgin–Franklin offshore field – the story as it unfolds The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change said there was no indication of a risk of any significant pollution to the environment. The more the deposit is depleted and the gas pressure decreases, the greater the chances that the whole geological substratum will become brittle. By advertising your job here, on the homepage of OffshoreEnergyToday. Production on the Elgin, Franklin and West Franklin fields have been stopped completely.

Total E&P UK on Mar. 26 was trying to identify the source of a natural gas leak at the UK North Sea Elgin wellhead platform and to bring the.

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French oil major Total has reportedly been fined for a gas leak that occurred on its Elgin platform, in the UK North Sea, back in Offshore. French oil and gas company Total today announced that the two technical solutions to stop the gas leak on well G4 of the Elgin platform are.
Gas leak at Elgin 'ongoing'.

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Having failed to do so after hours of trying, they turned off all the machinery and electricity and fled the platform too. French oil and gas company Total today announced that the two technical solutions to stop the gas leak on well G4 of the Elgin platform are progressing according to plan.

Thought to be gas condensate, it is a direct consequence of the leak and usually evaporates naturally, Total said. But in the long run, they have sparked worries about how well the many planned North Sea drilling projects that involve deeply buried reservoirs can really be controlled.

More recent statements from Total have announced that the company has a "good idea" of the source of a gas leak.

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HSE said that the Sheriff court was told that Total had been experiencing problems of high pressure gas leaking into the affected well for some time. This is perfectly normal," the statement said. Flickering way up at the tip of the meter foot stack was an open gas flarewhich the crew had failed to extinguish last Sunday as it hastily abandoned the platform. Total fined for Elgin leak The company is pushing the limits in terms of both the materials and expertise available in the early 21st century. Were the field to become permanently unusable it would cost Total EUR 2. Some personnel were immediately evacuated onshore, and no injuries have been reported. As has happened with the Elgin, the entire crew made it safely off the platform.