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Subscribe to RSSA gas leak on a North Sea oil platform has been stopped after more than seven weeks, its operators said Wednesday.
Heavy mud was pumped into the well in a bid to "kill" the leak on Total's Elgin platform, which is around 150 miles from Aberdeen, Scotland.
Gas had been escaping from the site since late March. Reuters reported the leak cost Total around $3 million a day in relief operations and lost net income.
The French firm's chief executive Christophe de Margerie has previously said the Elgin leak would cost the company more than $300 million in lost production in a worst-case scenario where production did not restart before the end of the year.
Read more on this story from Britain's ITV News.
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9 billion people plus by the year 2100, I love when I hear that the US has enough energy to power us for the next 100 years....then what???? Just like piling on the debt and letting the future generations have to deal with it....sad world we live in....let's just keep polluting the planet so big oil and pharma rule the world....
Remember we're supposed to devolve our culture more quickly to "even things out "with the rest of the world.It's not fair!If we wreck the world[you and I of of course] we should atone by letting all the illegals become citizens.Then the whole world will be Americans and we'll sing kumbaya
Better get off your computers, you're wasting energy, oh yeah, better recycle all the petroleum based plastic parts your pc is made from too...
We both really reached there.Poor story.Many will think 'gasoline' I assume we're talking about natural gas here.It is time we held these corporations accountable.MORTALLY accountable