ApocaDocs: Total: "may be months" to stop North Sea gas cloud

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Posted Wed Mar 28 2012: from Reuters:


	Total: "may be months" to stop North Sea gas cloud http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1332950993 A cloud of explosive natural gas boiling up from the North Sea out of a leak at Total's evacuated Elgin platform forced another shutdown off the Scottish coast on Tuesday as the French firm warned it could take six months to halt the flow... Total, which said the rupture of an unused reservoir above the main production source seemed to have been caused by its own engineers, is now looking at two main options to cut off the shimmering plume of gas rising above the sea: either drilling a relief well nearby, which could take six months, or - faster but possibly riskier - sending in engineers to "kill" the leak.

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