Statoil Shuts Output at Snorre A, Vigdis After Leak

Statoil ASA, Norway’s biggest energy company, shut production at the Snorre A platform and Vigdis oil field in the North Sea after a gas leak.
The alarm went off at 3:38 a.m. local time at the Snorre A platform due to a leak and production was shut down shortly before 4 a.m., Ola Anders Skauby, a spokesman for the Stavanger- based company, said by telephone today. While the situation was brought under control by 6 a.m. and the leak was stopped in an hour, Statoil doesn’t know when output can resume, Skauby said.
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Source: Bloomberg