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Output Back at North Sea Grane Oilfield after Gas Leak |
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| NORWAY: February 20, 2006 | ||
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OSLO - A gas leak halted the 210,000 barrels-per-day Grane oilfield in the North Sea on Saturday, but it was quickly controlled and output resumed the same evening, operator Norsk Hydro said on Sunday.
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No one was hurt as a result of the leak, which took place around 1500 GMT on Saturday and sent the platform's workers to the lifeboats but was controlled after about 45 minutes, the Norwegian energy and aluminium company said in a statement. "The platform is in production again...We started it up again last night," Norsk Hydro's spokesman Baard Hammervold said. "Everything is fine now." "It is not at full speed yet," he said, but added that oil production was being stepped up continuously. No estimate of the production loss was available, but Hammervold said output was halted for several hours. Gas is injected into the seabed at Grane to raise pressure on the reservoir and help bring oil to the surface. The platform had about 130 workers on board at the time of the leak which Hydro called "minor". Norsk Hydro is operator and has a 38 percent stake in the field. Its partners are Norway's state-owned Petoro, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips.
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