Macondo ‘Hellfighters’ to the Rescue in North Sea Leak

By Henning Gloystein LONDON (Reuters) – Wild Well Control, a company that helped tackle the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and Kuwait’s raging oil fires, have joined efforts to avert disaster at a leaking gas platform off Scotland, rig operator Total said. Firefighters and engineers from the Houston-based company are experts at disasters such as oil rig explosions and have been dubbed “Hellfighters” by Hollywood. The firm was hired along with Britain’s Oil Spill Response, Total said this week, after a gas leak began last Sunday aboard its Elgin platform some 240 km (150 miles) off the east coast of Scotland

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Macondo ‘Hellfighters’ to the Rescue in North Sea Leak