Equinor ASA has shut down an unmanned manufacturing platform serving the Sleipner Vest subject on the Norwegian facet of the North Sea after it was notified of a “smoke improvement” early morning Tuesday native time.
The corporate has deployed two vessels to chill down the Sleipner B platform after it was knowledgeable at 4:40 a.m. CEST, October 22 that smoke had been detected in a switchgear room.
“Manufacturing has been shut down, and the ability has been depressurized”, the Norwegian majority state-owned firm mentioned in a press release. “Equinor’s emergency response group has been mobilized, and related authorities have been notified”.
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It initially deployed one response vessel, Skandi Mongstad. Equinor later despatched the vessel Esvagt Bergen.
“The vessels will stay stationed exterior the unmanned Sleipner B platform and monitor the state of affairs for so long as vital”, it mentioned in a second replace. “A SAR [search and rescue] helicopter will fly over the platform with a thermal imaging digicam to watch the state of affairs. There isn’t any hazard to life and well being”.
The latter assertion added that the platform’s energy has been lower off and the platform remained depressurized.
“The discount in fuel exports ensuing from this incident won’t have any penalties for the commitments that we’ve got made to our clients”, Equinor assured.
Sleipner B is remotely operated from the Sleipner A platform of the Sleipner Øst subject and the fuel remedy platform Sleipner T, which is linked by a bridge to Sleipner A, in accordance with authorities web site Norskpetroleum.no. Sleipner Vest, within the central a part of the North Sea, is about 250 kilometers (155.3 miles) away from the town of Stavanger.
Equinor operates Sleipner Vest with a 58.3 p.c stake by way of Equinor Vitality AS. PGNiG Upsream Norway AS holds 24.4 p.c. Vår Energi ASA owns 17.2 p.c.
Earlier Equinor reported a rise in office accidents. For the 12 months to September 2024, it reported 2.4 complete recordable damage frequency per million hours labored. That was up from the earlier 12-month common — measured as much as June 2024 — of two.2. Equinor additionally logged seven incidents of oil and fuel leaks.
“Equinor’s general long-term security pattern continues to maneuver in a constructive course, however the complete variety of accidents has elevated considerably by the tip of the third quarter, measured over the earlier twelve months”, the corporate mentioned in a press release October 17.
“There have been no incidents with main accident potential or critical effectively management incidents within the third quarter”, it added.
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