Updated! Breaking: TOTAL and Shell evacuates 2 oil rigs in the North Sea!

Total evacuates rig in North Sea
03.26.2012 at 19:23. Posted in General

LONDON - A drilling platform of oil company Total off the Scottish coast in the North Sea is wrapped in a large gas cloud. That witnesses reported Monday.

Total previously reported that nearly 240 people were evacuated from the platform because of a leak.

'' At 11 kilometers, people see a cloud of gas rising from the Total-platform, "said Jake Molloy, a British trade union boss who is in contact with staff on platforms in the area. Total declined to comment further on the incident.

According to Molloy gave the wellbore in a while Total problems and needs a new well drilling, to reduce pressure. According to the union, the surgery can be lengthy and may at that time'' a significant amount of "gas leak.

The production on the rig is shut down. The gas leak on the platform, some 240 kilometers east of the Scottish city of Aberdeen is located, was Sunday. The cause of the leak is unknown.

Yet another, I think the message is stop drilling for oil and gas, I think the messenger is earth her self.

Cheers!
I found a other link

North Sea rig evacuated after gas leak

LONDON – Energy group Total S.A. evacuated a platform in the North Sea on Monday after discovering a gas leak.

The company's U.K. exploration subsidiary Total E&P UK said 238 workers were moved off the Elgin platform 150 miles east of the Scottish city of Aberdeen after it sprang a leak Sunday. No one was injured.

The leak started during work to plug and abandon the well, which was no longer producing gas, the government's Department of Energy and Climate Change said.

"Total has now shut in all wells but remote monitoring has revealed that gas continues to be released," officials said in a statement.

The company said it did not yet know what had caused the leak.



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Last Edited by Butterfly on 03/26/2012 04:50 PM

HE VERDAMME!!

no more humans then

If you say so, but I think we were around a long time before we found either of those resources.

Run

I agree....and doesnt BP start deep water drilling off shetland today?

Go back to your caves

Nothing reported on here yet

[link to hisz.rsoe.hu]

Who me, all the way down in London.

So, in tangible words, can anyone describe what can happen? Huge explosion?

LOLS good point!

Better link here.

[link to www.bbc.co.uk]


Snip: "One drilling engineer that I have spoken to today says we could be looking at a Deepwater-type intervention, in that we have to drill a relief well from another rig, but even that will be dodgy if we have got gas continually escaping in the immediate region.

Last Edited by northerntomcat on 03/26/2012 05:43 PM

THIS NEEDS A SUPER PIN!!


This story is huge,i have just done some reading on this baby and it is huge!

Read this little bit.

Elgin-Franklin is the world's largest High-Pressure / High-Temperature (HP / HT) development. Due to the extreme reservoir conditions – an initial pressure of approximately 1,100bar and temperatures of 190°C and complex geological structures – the fields pose a considerable development challenge.

Brought on-stream in 2001, by March 2002 the fields had achieved peak production of 140,000 barrels of condensate and 485 million cubic feet of gas a day.

In 2003 a new, record-breaking well was developed from the Elgin-Franklin platform to the West Franklin reservoir, which is the hottest, highest-pressure reservoir in the world. The well was drilled to a depth of 6,100m and stepped out 1.5km to tap an accumulation with a temperature of 197°C and a pressure of 1,155bar.


[link to www.offshore-technology.com]

More links to come.


Just the fact that NO_ONE is on board now indicates how dangerous this really is.

Good find.
Bad news this is a other rig, the is from Shell allso evacuated!
No good…!

26 March 2012 Last updated at 19:18 GMT
Elgin platform gas leak causes Shell to evacuate Shearwater
The BBC understands workers were told 'this is not a drill', before being evacuated
Shell is removing 85 non-essential workers from a platform and drilling rig close to Total's Elgin PUQ installation, which has been at the centre of a serious gas leak.
The oil giant said the move was a "precautionary measure" because of drifting gas.
The Elgin platform is in the North Sea about 150 miles (240km) off Aberdeen.
Union official Jake Molloy told BBC Scotland a gas cloud had now encircled the platform.
Total said it was trying to bring the leak under control but has not yet been able to identify the source.
All 238 workers were removed from the Elgin installation by helicopter on Sunday after the leaking gas was discovered.
A sheen of between two and 23 tonnes of gas condensate, and measuring six nautical miles in length, has been reported on the water nearby, and Total has activated its Oil Pollution Emergency Plan.
Shell confirmed on Monday evening it was flying non-essential personnel back to Aberdeen from its Shearwater platform and the nearby Hans Deul drilling rig.
The Shearwater and Elgin installations are about four miles apart.
As far as we can tell, certainly in the UK sector, this is an unknown. It has never occurred before.”
End Quote Jake Molloy RMT union
Mr Molloy, regional organiser of the RMT union, said the gas cloud could be seen by people seven miles away.
He told BBC Radio Scotland he was not certain how the incident could be tackled.

More at
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Hmm....this started on sunday night but was not reported until tonight

yes

[link to hisz.rsoe.hu]

and a situation update

GOOD GOD!!! 2 rigs!!! 4 miles apart CRAP on a cracker.

RELEASE ... THE KRAKEN!!!

One terrorist and a Cessna could do a lot of damage.

Aberdeen Coastguard scrambled three helicopters to the site, which contains the Elgin/Franklin offshore platforms and the Rowan Viking drilling rig, after reports it was releasing dangerous gas.
[link to www.pressandjournal.co.uk]

Aberdeen Coastguard co-ordinated the evacuation of the platform. Coastguard watch manager Kevin Brown said three rescue helicopters and four civilian helicopters helped with the process.

A statement from the company said: “Investigations are continuing to determine the cause of the ongoing gas leak and TEP UK is monitoring the situation closely.

“TEP UK is co-operating fully with all relevant authorities including the Department of Energy and Climate Change, the Health and Safety Executive and the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency.”
[link to www.scotsman.com]

Found it back:

Vast methane 'plumes' seen in Arctic ocean as sea ice retreats

Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane - a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide - have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region.

The scale and volume of the methane release has astonished the head of the Russian research team who has been surveying the seabed of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf off northern Russia for nearly 20 years.

[link to www.independent.co.uk]

SLEEPERS

GUESS I WILL BE THE FIRST TO SAY THIS,FUEL FOR THE SUN !