Total assessing Elgin options

On board: picture shows Elgin wellhead assembly last week

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Eoin O'Cinneide

 09 April 2012 09:08 GMT

Total is still accessing its options with regards to plugging a large gas leak at a North Sea facility which the French major says is diminishing.

One of two rigs chartered with a view to drilling relief wells also continues towards the scene of the leak from the Elgin processing, utilities and quarters (PUQ) platform but will stand off at the perimeter of an exclusion zone, a spokesperson told Upstream on Monday.

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

Last week Total send a team of well control experts b y helicopter to the leaking facility and, although they returned safely, the company has yet to decide on a plan to stop…

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