Equinor said on Monday it had halted oil production at its Johan Sverdrup Phase 1, the North Sea's largest producing field, due to a technical fault in a cooling system.
Sverdrup's Phase 2 is producing oil as normal, an Equinor spokesperson said.
Sverdrup 1 has a capacity of around 535,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd), Equinor data showed, while Sverdrup 2 can produce up to 185,000 bpd.
Power supply to the Johan Sverdrup field was reduced on Monday due to a technical failure, Nordic power exchange Nordpool said. The outage is expected to last for 2-3 days, with a preliminary restart set for mid-day on Feb. 8, according to the Nordpool filing. (Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis, writing by Terje Solsvik, editing by Essi Lehto and Jason Neely)
