North Sea leak for EnQuest

摘要

UK independent EnQuest has reported an escape of oil into the sea from one of two large storage tanks it is removing from its now out-of-production Thistle Alpha platform in the UK northern North Sea. The oil leak, which occurred on 2 June, was reported by EnQuest in a filing to the Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment & Decommissioning (Opred). The revelation comes as Italian contractor Saipem this week began work to lift off the tanks - each weighing 1200 tonnes and about as long as a football pitch- using its Saipem 7000 heavy-lift vessel, and lay them on the seabed before they are removed to shore at a later date.