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French major Total has announced that this morning it has begun its well intervention work on the Elgin platform in the UK North Sea. The operation, which Total says began at 09:20 (GMT) this morning, sees the company begin pumping mud into a leaking wellhead. This wellhead, the G4 wellhead, has previously...
Total has announced that it will begin well intervention work on the Elgin leak site within days, with weather permitting. In a weekly update issued last night, the company said that it was nearing completion of its final preparations for the well intervention operations. The operation, which will involve...
Total has said that it is progressing according to schedule on the Elgin gas leak in the Scottish North Sea, with work planned to begin on a dynamic kill operation within the coming days. As part of these preparations, Total made an "important advancement in stopping the leak" made on Friday, the company...
The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has given the go ahead to a dynamic kill operation planned by Total to stem the Elgin gas leak. The dynamic kill operation is one of two options suggested by Total to deal with the leak and the company has said previously it is the preferred option.
The chief financial officer (CFO) of Total has said that work will begin this week to complete a top kill operation on the Elgin gas leak. Speaking to Reuters at the weekend, Patrick de La Chevardiére said the French firm would this week begin the well kill operation, which would utilise...
Total has said that it has installed a diverter on the Elgin G4 wellhead this week, as part of its operations to cease a gas leak at the UK North Sea site. The first relief well on the leak, which has been ongoing since the 25th of March, is currently underway according to schedule and according to plan.
The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has confirmed that it has granted approval to Total to drill a relief well on the leaking Elgin gas field and expects the operation to take 180 days. In a Tweet yesterday, operator of the field Total said it had begun drilling on the first of two...
Total has confirmed that it has spudded its first relief well on at the Elgin gas leak site in a Tweet today. "Drilling rig Sedco 714 has spudded the first relief well as part of the operation to stop the Elgin G4 gas leak," the company said on Twitter earlier. This is the first of two relief...
French major Total has said that it has made "significant progress" at the Elgin leak site off the coast of Aberdeen, in the UK North Sea. In an update late on Friday night, the company said it was currently mobilising two rigs to facilitate the drilling of a relief well to deal with the leak.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that other operators in the UK North Sea may face the same difficulties as Total have at the Elgin gas leak at matured gas fields in the medium-term future. As the resources in the offshore area dwindles, the IEA says, further decommissioning may cause...