Reuters: France's Total started pumping heavy mud down its leaking well in the North Sea on Tuesday to try to stop an escape of gas that has lasted nearly eight weeks and could deprive Britain of nearly 6 percent of its supply this summer. "The well intervention operation got underway at 4.20 a.m. EDT this morning with the pumping of heavy mud into the well from the main support vessel," the oil and gas major said in a statement. The work, at the Elgin platform, 240 km off the coast of Scotland, is...
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