Offshore Platform
Njord A platform — produced-water system oil spill
31 December 2024
Norwegian Sea, Norway
What happened
About 75 cubic meters of oil discharged into the Norwegian Sea from Equinor's Njord A platform over two hours and 20 minutes. A separator water-outlet valve had mistakenly been left locked open, while an incorrectly calibrated level gauge prevented the safety system from closing it. A worker detected the spill by chance after noticing an unusual odor; Havtil found four regulatory breaches.
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- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Infrastructure
- Offshore Platform
- Latitude
- 64.2700°
- Longitude
- 7.2000°
Attribution
Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.