Equinor halted output at its Visund oil and gas platform in the Norwegian North Sea after a fire in an electrical switchboard room; the flames are out, no one was injured and the company reported the incident to authorities.

A notice from Norwegian gas system operator Gassco cut the platform's capacity to 2.5 million cubic meters per day on Wednesday and to zero for Thursday's gas day, with the duration listed as uncertain; the field's 13.2 million cubic meters per day of gas export capacity goes off the market from Thursday. Equinor moved between 70 and 80 of the 128 workers on board to nearby installations and said repairs will be needed, with no timeframe for restarting production. Visund has produced since 1999 and sent 5.1 billion cubic meters of gas to market in 2025, shipped through the Kvitebjørn pipeline to the Kollsnes plant and on to Europe.