Statoil has evacuated more than 80 workers from its Visund North Sea platform after a power outage last night.
The Norwegian oil giant said it had airlifted 84 employees from the platform via five helicopter trips to the Gullfaks A platform on Sunday night.
The Visund floating platform, 22km north east of Gullfaks, produces 16,000boed and is due to produce 0.45billion cubic metres of gas this year.
A Statoil spokeswoman said 44 staff had remained on the platform. “They shall seek to determine the cause of the power outage and rectify the error,” she said.
A specialist team may be flown out from the mainland to help assist restarting systems on the platform. The cause of the power outage has not yet been determined.
The move comes just over a week after the company was forced to evacuate the Heimdal platform under similar circumstances.