Thursday, May 10, 2007

Fire halts output at Total's Congo Nkossa field

(Reuters) - A fire at French oil major Total's Nkossa offshore platform in Congo Republic killed two people and halted the field's 60,000 barrel-per-day production on Thursday, the company said.

Congo's oil ministry and the company said an investigation was under way to determine the cause of the blaze, which started at around 0400 GMT on Thursday and was quickly extinguished.


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