Gas leaks in the Baltic Sea are causing more and more ripple effects: The National Guard will now assist with emergency preparedness at several Norwegian oil and gas shore facilities.
Updated less than 10 minutes ago
–
The case is up to date.
Two police districts confirm this to the VG.
The housekeeper will assist the police in emergency preparedness at the Kårstø facility in Tysvær, the Kårstø gas and condensate treatment plant.
Chief of Staff Håkon Strand in the southwest police district confirmed this to VG.
– We asked the National Guard for assistance. It will be rolled out tomorrow, says Strand.
He will not go into further detail on what they have asked for or will attend for.
The task is at the core of the National Guard’s competencies, which is to protect civilian and military infrastructure.
The police of Møre and Romsdal also converse with the National Guard, the deputy police chief Ingmar Farstad confirms to the VG.
Farstad says police have secured “some items” that are important to the oil industry in his district, but that they don’t want to specifically enter all the facilities in question.
– We have several ground facilities in Møre and Romsdal. It’s no secret that Nyhamna is central, she says.
In the district, in the municipality of Aure, there is also the industrial plant of Tjeldbergodden.
– As of today the police are on guard duty, but we have sent a request for assistance to the defense for help with this. We manage it locally and up until now we assemble, together with the 11th Home Security District, says Deputy Chief of Police Ingmar Farstad.
The Home Guard is part of the Norwegian Defense Preparedness and Response Force and is made up of 40,000 troops spread across 11 different districts.
Preparation all around Norwegian oil and gas plants have increased in the last week after the alleged sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
