Equinor has shut down a North Sea gas platform after detecting smoke on-board.
The energy giant has mobilised its emergency response team following the alert on the unmanned Sliepner B platform, which sits on the border of the UK and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea.
The emergency vessels Skandi Mongstad and Esvagt Bergen have used seawater to cool down the platform from a distance during yesterday.
Production from Sleipner B has been shut down, and the platform is depressurized and without power.
Norway is Europe's largest supplier of natural gas and a major producer of oil, pumping some four million barrels of oil equivalent per day from more than 90 offshore fields, about half of which is gas.
Equinor has confirmed that the outage at Sliepner will not impact its commitments to customers, and the firm has increase production in other fields to compensate.
It was not immediately clear how long the outage could last, the company said.