StatoilHydro Sleipner T Output to Resume in 24 Hours

(Bloomberg) — StatoilHydro ASA, Norway’s largest oil and natural-gas company, will start production at platform T at the Sleipner gas and condensate field in the North Sea within the next 24 hours.

The resumption of output at platform A will “take longer,” spokesman Gisle Johanson said today by telephone, without elaborating. The two platforms have a capacity of about 39 million cubic meters of gas a day, of which platform T accounts for more than 50 percent, he said.


Production was halted after a gas leak at platform A, which was discovered when an alarm sounded at about 3 a.m. local time today. The 228 personnel on site were moved to lifeboats for about 1 1/2 hours before returning to the platform. The cause of the leak remains unknown, Johanson said.