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Thursday, April 5, 2012

''Total gas leak: Abandoning rig was hardest ever decision''

From The Scotsman

"THE manager of the stricken Elgin platform spoke for the first time yesterday of his agonising decision to turn on the installation’s “total blackout key” and abandon the rig because of the threat of a potentially catastrophic gas leak.

William Cardno, 56, the Total-operated platform’s offshore installation manager (OIM), was one of the last 19 oilmen to remain on the Elgin 11 days ago to try and find a way of stemming an uncontrolled gas release from the wellhead platform, connected to the main installation by a 90-metre access bridge."

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