Two Norwegian employees suffered a serious offshore accident aboard the Heimdal platform, yesterday, November 28, in the North Sea

Two Equinor employees were injured in a serious work-related offshore incident aboard the Heimdal platform in the North Sea on Thursday, November 28. See too, Petrobras and the North American Exxon compete for FPSO's for Brazil and Guyana.

Equinor said today, 29th, that the incident occurred as a result of an explosion of an onboard portable gas container, and was reported to Equinor's emergency response center at 1806 CET. There were 70 people on board the platform when the incident occurred.

The two injured employees were treated by medical staff on board the Heimdal and were transported to University Hospital Haukeland and University Hospital Stavanger by a SAR helicopter and a Joint Rescue Coordination Center helicopter.

Equinor is accompanying both the injured and their families. The Heimdal organization is also being looked after, Equinor said.

On Thursday night, extra personnel traveled to the platform to accompany those on board.

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Equinor also said that relevant authorities had been informed and updated, and that the incident would be investigated further.

Heimdal is a gas field west of Sveio in County Hordaland in the northern part of the North Sea, north of Johan Sverdrup and south of Oseberg, close to the border with the UK shelf.

The Heimdal Gas Center, with production license (PL) 036, is a gas processing and distribution centre. It consists of an integrated steel platform and a lifting platform.

Heimdal's current partners are Equinor (29,4% – operator), Petoro (20%), Total E&P Norge (16,7%), Spirit Energy (28,8%) and LOTOS Exploration and Production (5%).

The condition of one of the employees who were injured in yesterday's work-related incident on the Heimdal platform in the North Sea is serious but not life-threatening, Equinor informed on Friday afternoon.