OSLO, Nov 2 (Reuters) - A gas leak has been reported at theplant processing gas from Norway's Ormen Lange field after apower outage, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.
"We received a report about a gas leak inside the plant at1625 CET (1525 GMT), but we are not sure how big it was, and weare trying to check that now," a spokesman for local police toldReuters, adding that there were no reported injuries.
A spokeswoman for the plant's operator, Shell, toldReuters that a short circuit occurred at a substation at theplant. She could not say whether a gas leak had occurred.
Earlier on Wednesday Shell told the Nordic power bourse thatthe plant had sustained an outage at 16.10 local time (1510 GMT)and was unable to receive power. Without power, the plant cannotoperate, which means production at the plant is shut. (Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis, editing by Gwladys Fouche)
