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Supply vessel collides with Statfjord A Platform in North Sea

cde.news desk 7 June 2019, 09:16 · 1 min read

epa01355681 (FILE) A view of the Statfjord A platform (background) in the North Sea and the loading buoy (foreground right), 13 December 2007. Norwegian NRK television reports some 200 workers on the Statfjord A platform in the North Sea have been evacuated to other installations early 24 May 2008, after a gas leak developed in one of the legs of the platform. EPA/HOMMEDAL MARIT NORWAY OUT

Norwegian oil and gas firm Equinor announced that it has evacuated oil workers from its Statfjord A platform in the North Sea after it was struck by a supply vessel.

The supply vessel, the PSV Sjoeberg, was heading to land, with 12 people onboard, Equinor said.

The platform was not producing when the collision occurred around midnight GMT, and there were no injuries to the 276 people on the platform, the company said.

Via Reuters

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Topics Equinor North Sea Norway PSV Sjoeberg Statfjord A

Supply vessel collides with Statfjord A Platform in North Sea

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