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Statoil ordered to review system after leak

Aug 28, 2014

Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority has issued an order to Statoil following the investigation of a hydrocarbon leak at Statfjord C on 26 January 2014.  The investigation identified serious breaches of the regulations, said the PSA today…

Leak halts GOM drilling

Aug 19, 2014

Sevan Drilling's Sevan Louisiana ultra-deepwater semisubmersiblse drilling rig has temporarily halted operations due to a control system leak on the blow out preventer (BOP), the firm said today (August 18).  In order to repair the leak…

PSA investigates platform oil leak

Aug 12, 2014

Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) is investigating a hydrocarbon leak which happened on the Eldfisk field in Block 2/7 in the North Sea early on Thursday 7 August. The leak led to the discharge of stabilized oil to the sea…

Statoil halts Statfjord C platform

Jan 29, 2014

Statoil recently halted production on the Statfjord C platform off Norway after a “limited” oil leak in to the Norwegian Sea. No injuries were reported by the firm, but its 270 crewmembers were boarded lifeboats until the leak was identified and stopped…

Hammerfest leak investigated

Jan 08, 2014

Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority is investigating a 'substantial' gas leak that saw production at Statoil’s Hammerfest LNG plant halted at the weekend. Statoil shut down the plant on Melkøya, northern Norway, on Sunday, January 5, because of a leak in the processing facility…

Crude oil leak at Hibernia

Jan 03, 2014

The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board released an incident bulletin today about a leak from Hibernia Offshore Loading System. Hibernia Management and Development Co. Ltd. (HMDC) reported an ongoing leak of crude…

New gas leak arrests Kashagan

Oct 11, 2013

For the second time since it produced first oil a month ago, a gas leak has sidelined Kashagan’s operations. The North Caspian Operating Company (NCOC) said that the leak was found on a pipeline running from the artificial D Island to the onshore Bolashak processing plant in Atyrau…

Offshore gas detection

Sep 01, 2013

UK-based Groveley Detection Ltd. will join Emerson Process Management’s Rosemount Analytical business unit. Groveley was the first to develop a pieso-electric based ultrasonic gas leak detector engineered for extreme industrial applications…

Emerson Acquires UK's Groveley Detection Ltd.

Aug 08, 2013

St. Louis, Missouri-based Emerson Process Management, a business of Emerson, acquired Groveley Detection Ltd., a leading innovator and developer of ultrasonic gas leak detection solutions for both offshore and onshore oil and gas installations…

ERT stops leaking well in GoM

Jul 12, 2013

BSEE confirmed on July 12 that Energy Resource Technology, LLC (ERT) stopped the flow of natural gas from well No. 2 at Ship Shoal Block 225, Platform B. The flow from the well, located approximately 74 miles southwest of Port Fourchon, Louisana…

Leak reported off Louisiana

Jul 11, 2013

An Energy Resource Technology (ERT) well, located within the Ship Shoal block 225, has been leaking a mixture of gas, salt water, and light condensate to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico since Monday July 8, 2013. Talos Energy—Houston…

Offshore pipeline leak detection for Arctic applications

Mar 20, 2013

Dr Premkumar Thodi, Mike Paulin, Duane DeGeer, and Glenn Lanan, INTECSEA Canada, examine examine the potential of external distributed sensors using fiber-optic cable systems. Multiple offshore Arctic fields have been developed over the past three decades…

Pinpointing leaks

Dec 07, 2012

Cambridge Consultants unveiled work that it believes will give a much-needed boost to offshore oil leak detection. It has built an oil spill detection technology platform capable of detecting the natural fluorescence of tiny amounts of oil in or on water…

Total plugs Elgin leak

May 18, 2012

The well intervention operation undertaken by Total and Wild Well Control has succeeded in stopping a gas leak at Elgin’s G4 well, the French supermajor announced on 16 May 2012. Total’s president of E&P Yves-Louis Darricarrère called the outcome a ‘major turning point…

Leak sniffer

Apr 28, 2012

The mobile early leak detection system (MELDS) from Teledyne TSS is claimed capable of quickly detecting leakages of dissolved methane and combustible gases from pipelines and subsea structures at depths down to 3000m. The versatile and…

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