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Inspectors develop plans to plug Elgin leak
Posted 10.04.2012 14:07:07 av John Bradbury
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Total is now working up two solutions to plug the leaking G4 well on its Elgin platform in the North Sea after a helicopter visit to the abandoned facility by well control experts.

In its latest update Total has said the mission to inspect the leaking well by Total staff and outside specialists contractors - Wild Well Control - has been successful in confirming that it is possible to intervene in the leaking G4 well – which is spewing gas a the deck level on the Elgin wellhead platform, which is connected  by a 90 metre (295 foot)bridge link to the Elgin Production and Utilities Quarters platform.

“We achieved our goals. Everything went as we would have hoped and the planned well intervention is achievable. There is certainly no showstopper to launch the well control operation,” Wild Well Control has indicated.

The team which returned the platform have identified pipe and hose connections they can use to intervene in the leaking well to try and stop the leak, Total stated. Within the next few days, more personnel are expected to return to the platform to refine plans to intervene in the well and develop detailed plans to stop the leak.

At this stage is understood Total is planning to pump heavy mud into the wellbore to kill the well leak, while two rigs remain on standby to drill relief wells.
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