Total ‘prepares Elgin return’

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By Eoin O'Cinneide & news reports

 02 April 2012 09:40 GMT

Total may put personnel onboard the Elgin platform as early as in the next few days as it mulls its options to kill a large gas leak, a report indicates.

The French major is considering a ‘top kill’ procedure on the leaking North Sea facility while the drilling of a relief well is also still highly possible.

(Click here to read all Upstream articles on the Elgin gas leak crisis.)

Total will on Monday discuss with the UK’s Health & Safety Executive a proposal to send well control experts to the platform by helicopter, Reuters reported.

"The company has prepared risk assessments for landing a helicopter on the platform and sending a team to carry out observations at the site of the gas…

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