Norwegian N.Sea Oil Platform Evacuated - Danger Of Blow-out, page 1


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Topic started on 28-11-2004 @ 04:20 PM by Hellmutt

Because of an immidiate danger of gas-explosion they started evacuation of the norwegian North Sea platform "Snorre A" about 2˝ hours ago. 141 people has been evacuated and there are still 75 people on the platform. They describe it as a serious situation and there is still leaking gas.

From: The Norway Post: North Sea platform evacuated Sunday evening

The oil production platform Snorre A on the Norwegian Shelf in the North Sea was Sunday evening in the process of being evacuated due to an unstable well.

It was unclear if there was a danger of a blow-out from the platform, which is operated by Statoil. However, gas was streaming up close to the platform.

The evacuation was carried out by several helicopters, one of them a large rescue helicopter from the Sola air/sea rescue center.

-In addition there are four vessels in standby around the platform, says duty officer at the air/sea rescue center, Terje Langaas.


While they were evacuating the platform they considered jumping into the sea if the evacuation process should take too long. The weather were described as "good" but the water must be cold...

Related news sources:
Aftenposten: Gass lekker ut, plattform evakuert(In norwegian...)
TV2: Evakuerer oljeplattform (In norwegian...)
NRK: Oljeplattform evakuert (In norwegian...)
TV2: Dramatisk gasslekkasje pĺ Snorre A (In norwegian...)
Haugesunds Avis: Frykter utblĺsning (In norwegian...)
Bergens Tidende: Kystverket i beredskap (In norwegian...)
VIRGILIO News: Norvegia: evacuata piattaforma petrolifera off shore (In italian...)
Dagens Nyheter: 141 oljeplattformarbetare evakuerade (In swedish...)
Último Segundo - Escape de gás dá prejuízo de 130 mil b-d ŕ plataforma de petróleo no Mar do Norte (From Brazil...)
La Liberté: Evacuation d'une plateforme pétroličre en mer du Nord (Swiss...)
Keskipohjanmaa.net: Norjalaisen porauslautan miehistöä evakuoitiin (finnito...)

Yahoo! News - Norwegian North Sea oil platform being evacuated after gas leak
Yahoo! India News - Norwegian North Sea oil platform being evacuated after gas leak


[edit on 2004/11/28 by Hellmutt]


reply posted on 28-11-2004 @ 04:30 PM by MattMarriott
easy prophecy.




www.statoil.com...
Norway - from the article's link :
A gas leak in a well on Statoil’s Snorre A platform in the North Sea around 19.00 on Sunday 28 November prompted the evacuation of ... 181 of Snorre A’s 216 crew.

UK, from news.bbc.co.uk... :

More than 40 workers remain on a North Sea oil platform from which 139 people were evacuated following a gas leak.


Unprecedented, since both platforms have strategic locations in the UK and Norway oil fields.

Snorre A impacts the world output.

Notice
- how statoil's announcement discloses that Snorre A output declined 40% in one year, contradicting official forecasts from last year
- how the UK incident discloses that 179 people are required to operate a platform that produces only about 14,000 bpd.

[edit on 28-11-2004 by MattMarriott]


reply posted on 29-11-2004 @ 08:34 AM by Hellmutt
DN: Snorre-plattformen kunne sunket (In norwegian...)

They say that the biggest risk now is not explosion but that the platform might sink.


reply posted on 24-1-2005 @ 04:29 AM by Hellmutt

They haven´t started up yet. They were not allowed by the authorities to enter "Phase 2" in the startup-process. And the internal report from Statoil (leaked to the press today) show that they made a very dangerous mistake on that day when it all started. While there was a gas-leak under the platform they let a big flame burn for 5 hours. This could easily have caused an uncontrollable fire which could have consumed the whole rig.
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