Total installs diverter on leaking Elgin

Diversion: Total installs diverter on leaking Elgin platform

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Eoin O'Cinneide

 26 April 2012 15:25 GMT

Total has installed a diverter onto the wellhead at its Elgin platform in the North Sea as it prepares a ‘dynamic kill’ procedure to halt a long-running gas leak.

Adverse weather conditions, however, meant that a team of experts could only make two flights to the processing, utilities and quarters (PUQ) facility this week, the French major said on Thursday.

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

Total has been battling to control a gas leak on the G4 well since 25 March and recently spudded one of two relief wells which continues to drill ahead.

On Thursday it revealed that its team of experts had installed a diverter on the G4 wellhead to divert leaking gas away from the wellhead and…

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