UK Safety Watchdog Tells Shell to Close Down North Sea Platform

摘要

Royal Dutch Shell has been told bythe UK’s Health and Safety Executive(HSE) to shut its Brent Charlie platformin the UK North Sea from next week forsafety reasons.Oil production has already been shut insince January, while gas output, whichflows through the Flags pipeline to St.Fergus on Scotland’s northeastern coast,has been restricted because of ongoingsafety concerns (OD Jan.25’11).