Thousands of gallons of diesel oil lost from grounded Transo

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-is...

Lot of blokes on here work on rigs, so perhaps might have a better answer.

According to the news item More than 12,000 gallons of fuel have been lost from the grounded rig, with "A UK government official overseeing the operation to remove the rig from Dalmore on Lewis said most of the escaped diesel oil had evaporated."

Sorry, but I don't see it ,as last time I had a pin hole in a fuel return line ( diesel) , I had spots of fuel under the bonnet for weeks.

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Nicholas Blair said:

Why wasn't the fuel drained prior to movement as it was off to be scrapped anyhow.

My thoughts, but as it's about 12000 gals ,it seems more than a small amount. I was looking at some form of "recycling" theory .

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I'm still wondering at at what temperature will diesel evaporate?
Then I look at the sea temperatures in the waters from Norway , and up around the top of Lewis.Or perhaps I'm still in "DIESEL( as opposed to Whisky ) GALORE" mode, whenever I think of the utter hebrides.