More than 130 workers were evacuated by helicopter after a fire broke out on an oil platform in the North Sea off Scotland on Thursday, the Coastguard said.
Oil major Royal Dutch Shell Plc, which operates the platform, said it had shut in 25,200 barrels per day (bpd) of North Sea crude following the fire.
A spokeswoman said there was no time frame for resumption of the shut-in crude as Shell was still investigating the cause of the electrical fire, extinguished early on Thursday.
Helicopters were scrambled to the Tern Alpha platform, 265 miles (425 km) off north-east Scotland, after a report of a fire in a generator, a Maritime and Coastguard Agency spokesman said.
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