26 April 2024
Total plugs Elgin gas leak
Publication date: 17 May 2012
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Total confirmed on Wednesday that its well intervention operation had stopped the G4 well leak on the Elgin complex, in the North Sea 240 km from Aberdeen. Total said the operation, which started on Tuesday, involved pumping heavy mud into the leaking well, and that the leak was stopped 12 hours later. The leak, which was first reported by Total on March 25, has cost the company 50,000 boe/d in production and approximately $1.5 million/d ($50 million so far) in net operating income.