Under inspection: the Ekofisk platform after a vessel crashed into it yesterday
Ekofisk re-start unclear
US oil producer ConocoPhillips said today that it was not yet clear when it will restart one of its Ekofisk field platforms in the Norwegian North Sea after it was hit by a service vessel yesterday.
A service vessel lost engine power and hit a water injection platform at Ekofisk, forcing ConocoPhillips to shut production of about 23,000 barrels per day - or less than 10% of the field's normal production of about 330,000 barrels per day.
"We haven't set any (restart) timing yet," a ConocoPhillips Norway spokesman told Reuters.
"We first need to find out the scale of the damage and figure out how to fix it."
ConocoPhillips said teams would investigate the damages to the platform's infrastructure on today.