Greenpeace activists on Monday climbed aboard a Seadrill drilling rig commission...
Greenpeace activists stay on the Equinor oil rig near Hammerfest, Norway, April 29, 2019. Jani Sipila/ Greenpeace/ Handout via REUTERS
OSLO - Greenpeace activists on Monday climbed aboard a Seadrill drilling rig commissioned by Equinor to explore for oil and gas in the Norwegian Arctic, the group told Reuters. Four activists climbed aboard the West Hercules rig, the organization said. The vessel is anchored off Hammerfest, continental Europe’s northernmost town and the site of an Equinor liquefied natural gas plant, Snoehvit.
“We clearly are in the middle of a climate crisis that cannot take any new oil, so we must show our resistance in any way we can,” said Frode Pleym, the head of Greenpeace Norway.The rig is due to drill a well in the Equinor-operated production license 859 in the eastern part of the Barents Sea, some 435 kilometers northeast of the coast of continental Norway.The company’s partners in the license are DNO, Petoro, Lundin Petroleum and ConocoPhillips.
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