Statoil shuts Gullfaks A after leak

Friday shut in: Platform said to be closed in due to leak

Statoil

By News wires

 29 June 2012 18:12 GMT

Statoil has shut oil production at its Gullfaks A oil platform in the North Sea due to a leak in a ballast tanker, according to a report.

"Production on Gullfaks A is currently shut down due to the ballast water leak," Statoil's spokesman Ola Anders Skauby told Reuters.

Oil from the field is loaded directly into shuttle tankers, while gas is piped to the Kaarstoe gas treatment plant north of Stavanger and then on to continental Europe.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate estimates Gullfaks field production in 2012 to be at 40,000 barrels of oil per day.

An ongoing strike by Norway's offshore oil and gas sector workers has trimmed production.

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