OSLO (Reuters) -Norway’s Equinor has shut output from its Sleipner B gas platform in the North Sea due to a smoke alert in an electrical facility, but will uphold its supply commitments by pumping more from other fields, it said on Tuesday.
“We will continue to meet our supply obligation,” a company spokesperson said.
Norway is Europe’s largest supplier of natural gas and a major producer of oil, pumping some 4 million barrels of oil equivalent per day from more than 90 offshore fields, about half of which is gas.
The export capacity of the Sleipner field was temporarily reduced by 7.1 million cubic metres of gas per day to 11.0 mcm, while Norway’s overall planned exports for the day stood at 336 mcm, gas export system operator Gassco separately said.
Equinor in a statement said its emergency team had been alerted to the Sleipner B incident at 0240 GMT.
It was not immediately clear how long the outage could last, the company said.
(Reporting by Nora Buli and Louise Breusch Rasmussen, editing by Terje Solsvik and Jan Harvey)
