Total’s Elgin-Franklin Field Producing at Half Pre-Accident Rate
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Total SA’s production from the Elgin-Franklin field in the North Sea is now half what it was before a leak shut operations for almost a year.
Output at the field about 240 kilometers (150 miles) east of Aberdeen in Scotland resumed March 9 and has reached 55,000 to 60,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day, according to Philippe Guys, managing director of Total E&P UK. Production before the incident was about 120,000 barrels a day and provided about 2 percent of Total’s annual output.