Oil ship to stay at Tui field - High Court

Oil ship to stay at Tui field - High Court
Gavin Evans
BW Offshore has lost its bid to disconnect its floating production and storage vessel from the Tui oil field and clear the area before the onset of winter.Last month, the Environment Court ruled that the prospect of the FPSO Umuroa remaining at Tui over winter, unmanned, potentially uninsured, and with 40,000 barrels of oil aboard, was more of an environmental risk than allowing the firm to follow a 2017 plan to disconnect the ship from the field’s production and mooring lines and depart.But the High Court, after an urgent appeal heard yesterda...

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