Emergency services have rushed to the oil refinery of Equinor at Mongstad in Alver, following a report of smoke. The facility has been shut down, and employees have been evacuated, according to the police. Critical personnel and emergency services are on site. – The fire service reports that there is a fire in a so-called electrical cabinet. They have just started extinguishing, says operations manager in the police, Steinar Hausvik. Evacuation of Mongstad after smoke developed in a transformer inside the facility. Have shut down production. Equinor was notified of this at 1 p.m. They set up an emergency organization and have notified the relevant authorities. – We have routinely evacuated the facility for non-operationally critical personnel. As a preventive measure, we have shut down production. We are working to get an overview of the situation, says Ellen Maria Skjelsbæk in Equinor. No injuries have yet been reported in connection with this, according to Skjelsbæk. There is a lot of smoke, but there should not have been any visible flames, according to the police. Local industrial protection is on site. There is currently no need to evacuate the surrounding residential area, according to the police. It was the newspaper Nordhordland that reported this first. Mongstad is an hour and a half north of Bergen.
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Mongstad closes after report of fire – news Vestland
