PON1/371

Notification details

Status	Completed
First observed date	08 May 2011
First observed time	10:23
Incident type(s)	Chemical release
Organisations involved	Nexen Petroleum U.K Limited
Installation	Ettrick FPSO Aoka Mizu
Installation type	Fixed
Field	ETTRICK
Latitude	57° 54' 2.283'' N
Longitude	0° 36' 30.003'' E
Quadrant / block no.	20 / 3

Chemical 1

Chemical product released	Monoethyleneglycol
Total quantity of chemical released	800.7 kg

Formal investigation

Formal investigation ever opened	Yes

Close off details

Release ever ongoing	No

Source details

Source	Failure of bursting disc due to over pressurisation.