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North Sea Leak Continues to Plague Total (TOT, RDS-A, BP)

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A leaking well in the North Sea continues to hamper crude oil production from the Elgin field operated by Total SA (NYSE: TOT). The company has shut-in about 130,000 barrels/day of oil equivalent as it was forced to evacuate all its workers from the area. Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE: RDS-A) also evacuated some personnel from a nearby platform and suspended some drilling operations.

The leaking well has been shut-in for a year and the leak is reportedly coming in at the platform level, not under the surface. Total is considering drilling a relief well, similar to the action taken by BP plc (NYSE: BP) when it was trying to stop the leak at its Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Drilling a relief well would take a long time, and would prevent Total from resuming production in the field until the well is completed.

Shares of Total are off about -6.7% today at $51.10 in a 52-week range of $40.00-$64.44.

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Paul Ausick has been writing for 247Wallst.com for more than a decade. He has written extensively on investing in the energy, defense, and technology sectors. In a previous life, he wrote technical documentation and managed a marketing communications group in Silicon Valley.

He has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Chicago and now lives in Montana, where he fishes for trout in the summer and stays inside during the winter.

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