“We had an incident during well control at Gullfaks C,” says Equinor

Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor halted production on its Gullfaks C platform in the North Sea on Sunday and evacuated some workers as a precautionary measure following a well incident, a company spokesman said.

“There was a control incident at Gullfaks C,” a company spokesman said, adding that the well was “stable.”

It was not immediately clear when production at Gullfaks C could resume, but the other Gullfaks platforms were running normally, he added.

Gullfaks C mainly produces oil. It also processes and exports oil and gas from the nearby Tordis field.

The gas production capacity in the Gullfaks field will be cut by a total of 6.6 million cubic meters per day on Monday, the Norwegian gas network operator announced separately on its website.

Equinor operates the field and owns a 51 percent stake, while its partners, Norwegian state-owned company Petoro and Austria's OMV, hold 30 percent and 19 percent respectively.

(Reuters)