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ConocoPhillips evacuates staff from Eldfisk North Sea platform, production shut down

Reuters - UK Focus

OSLO, Dec (Shanghai: 600875.SS - news) 31 (Reuters) - ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP - news) has shut down output at its Eldfisk and Embla fields in the North Sea and was evacuating staff from its Eldfisk platform due to the threat of a drifting barge hitting its installations, it said on Thursday.

A company spokesman told Reuters in an email that 145 people had been evacuated. "Of these, 95 were taken to shore and the rest moved to nearby installations. There is a minimum staffing again on Eldfisk Center."

"Production from Eldfisk and Embla fields are shut down." (Reporting by Gwladys Fouche; Editing by Susan Fenton)