Heather platform evacuated after oil leak
Posted on October 31, 2008
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Personnel were evacuated today from the Petrofac-operated Heather oil production platform in the UK North Sea after an oil leak in the processing module shut down the facility. Petrofac, which runs the Heather platform for Lundin Britain, confirmed that 57 workers were taken by three helicopters to Shetland as remaining staff tackled the oil spill, which happened at 10.30 am this morning. Aberdeen Coastguard said there was no fire on board the platform and the evacuation was precautionary.
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