Shell UK has evacuated some staff from its Shearwater oil and gas platform in the North Sea due to safety concerns over an uncontrollable gas leak at a nearby rig operated by Total.

Shell UK has decided to bring forward maintenance on its Shearwater gas platform in the North Sea from Tuesday after partially evacuating the rig following Total's gas leak, the Anglo-Dutch ...

Shearwater is about 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) from Elgin. Output from the Scoter and Starling fields, which passes through the Shearwater platform, hasn’t been affected, Whittam said.

Hogg told New Scientist that the leaking methane posed no safety risks to neighbouring rigs, the nearest of which is the Shearwater rig owned by Shell, about 7 kilometres away.

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