Statfjord oil clean-up done, StatoilHydro states
OSLO - The clean-up of an oil spill at the Statfjord area in the North Sea has actually been completed, all employees have actually gone back to the system, and also prep work are in progress to reboot manufacturing, driver StatoilHydro stated on Sunday.
IRO coating additives on Saturday shut down outcome of regarding 138,000 barrels each day at Statfjord and also two connected areas and also caused evacuation of the Statfjord A system, yet the spill was visited Saturday afternoon and also clean-up vessels deployed.
About 20 cubic metres of crude-- equivalent to 126 barrels-- were skimmed from the sea, the Norwegian firm's spokesperson Ola Morten Aanestad stated. "The clean-up was concluded yesterday ... There disappeared oil to be seen so the procedure was finished."
StatoilHydro had actually stated on Saturday that 1,200 cubic metres of oily water-- equal to about 7,550 barrels-- were pumped to sea and that a lot of that quantity was water.
"Everyone went back to the installment yesterday as well as the scenario was stabilized," Aanestad stated.
"They are getting ready for startup of production," he stated, yet added that examination of the reason for the leak proceeds and also it was prematurely to state when production might return to.
The company said in a declaration on Saturday that production at Statfjord A, among three Statfjord systems, would most likely be shut down for several days.
The leakage caused a closure of regarding 19,000 barrels daily at Statfjord An and 119,000 bpd of production from the close-by Snorre A system and the Vigdis area due to the fact that quantities from those installations were being processed at Statfjord.
But the Vigdis outcome of regarding 44,000 bpd typically goes to StatoilHydro's Gullfaks field and also can most likely be re-routed there quickly, the business said.
"That is expected to occur on Monday at the latest, to ensure that must be out of the equation quickly," Aanestad said.
Discovered in 1974 and on stream considering that 1979, the Statfjord field straddling the Norwegian-UK limit line was when the greatest oilfield in the North Sea.
Manufacturing has actually fallen from a 1987 height of 850,000 barrels to about 150,000-160,000 barrels daily from three systems.
Oil is also created from satellite fields connected to Statfjord, bringing overall output to around 470,000-480,000 bpd.
The spill was the 2nd at Statfjord in the past 5 and a half months. In mid-December, concerning 27,700 barrels of oil were splashed throughout a vessel loading procedure at Statfjord A.
The Oil Safety and security Authority said it would certainly introduce an examination into Saturday's leakage.