A fire broke out at the Equinor-operated Snorre B platform in the North Sea on May 1, a Norwegian rescue coordination service said, adding that production at the facility was shut.
“There has been a fire and smoke at an Equinor platform in the North Sea. Production is shut. It looks like the situation is getting under control,” a spokesman for the Rescue Coordination Centre for Southern Norway told Reuters.
A spokesman for Equinor said that production at the platform had been shut since March to conduct repairs.
Some 121 staff was onboard, and there were no plans to evacuate them yet, a company spokesman said.
“The incident was reported a little after 13:00 CET [11:00 GMT],” he told Reuters.
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