OSLO (Reuters) – Output from Norway’s Johan Castberg oilfield in the Arctic Barents Sea remains temporarily halted while repairs are being made following an outage, operator Equinor said on Monday.
Production from the field’s floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel was shut at the weekend due to a small oil leak from a heat exchanger. There was no discharge of oil into the sea, the company said.
The Johan Castberg field pumped its first oil in late March and has a capacity to produce up to 220,000 barrels per day.
“We expect to reach plateau production during the second quarter, but are in a start-up phase with various tests and operations that could affect production along the way,” Equinor said in an emailed statement.
(Reporting by Nora Buli, editing by Terje Solsvik)
