Equinor Meets Gas Supply Commitment Despite Platform Shutdown

Equinor will survey on Wednesday the damage at its offshore Sleipner B natural gas platform, which was shut down earlier this week, but Norway’s energy giant continues to meet its gas supply commitments. Early on Tuesday, Equinor said that its Emergency Response team was notified of smoke development in a switchgear room at the unmanned Sleipner B platform at 4:40 a.m. local time. Production has been shut down, and the facility has been depressurized. In the latest update at noon local time on Wednesday, the company said that the emergency…