Oil workers taken off Shell North Sea platform after power failure
Twenty-nine oil workers had to be airlifted from a North Sea platform after a power failure.
Twenty-nine oil workers had to be airlifted from a North Sea platform after a power failure.
Shell's Brent Charlie installation was partially down-manned on Thursday following the outage.
The 29 crew members were taken off the platform by helicopter.
Main power has since been restored to the site, which is 166 miles (186 km) north-east of Lerwick, Shetland.
A spokesman said: Shell UK Limited can confirm that due to a main power generator outage during the morning of November 26, we carried out a precautionary downman of 29 non-essential personnel from the Brent Charlie platform.
Main power has now been restored to the platform through one generator and work continues to bring a secondary generator back in to service.''