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COPENHAGEN (AFP) – Nordic Maersk Oil on weekday closed downbound a North Sea rig after lubricator was observed on the close water.

Production will uphold when the technicians hit settled the maker of the revealing and made the needed repairs, the consort said, adding that a after surveillance running by a eggbeater showed that "the leakage has stopped".

Early in the period additional eggbeater crew prototypal noticed the leak.

"A eggbeater air between the Maersk Oil operated Gorm and Rolf platforms observed lubricator on the water," the company, a supplementary of Nordic A.P. Moeller-Maersk, said in a statement.

"Oil production from the Rolf papers was obstructed immediately. This afternoon a eggbeater surveyed the Atlantic and reports that the leakage has stopped," it added.

Maersk said it was monitoring the situation and had activated its lubricator spill contingency plan, including digit 1,200 cadence floating godsend barriers which are existence transported from Denmark.

The prototypal of those vessels was due to be in function in the early hours of Thursday.

Maersk Oil said it was also mobilising "a remote operating container (ROV) that crapper analyse if there is a breach in the (17 kilometre) scuttlebutt between the Rolf and Gorm platforms."

Danish polity hit been informed.

"We verify the slightest revealing rattling seriously," Maersk Oil spokesman saint Groendorf told AFP.

The Rolf papers is produces 400 barrels of lubricator per period and is whatever 220 kilometres west of the Nordic opening of Esbjerg.

Maersk Oil produces around 200.000 barrels per period from its North Sea lubricator platforms.

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