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Article: Australian oil rig leak plugged, fire out.

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November 4, 2009
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The operator of an oil rig in the Timor Sea announced Tuesday it plugged the leak that had been spewing oil for 10 weeks and brought under control a massive fire that had been burning since Sunday.

Since Aug. 21 up to 400 barrels of oil leaked daily from PTTEP Australasia's Montara wellhead off the coast of West Australia. The Australian Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism had said it could have been leaking as much as 2,000 barrels a day. It took engineers four attempts to plug the leak.

We are relieved and thankful that we have killed the well and stopped the main fire, PTTEP Australasia Chief Financial Officer Jose Martins said in a statement. ...

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