Oil workers evacuated from vessel following fire
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Oil workers have been evacuated following a fire on a vessel off the coast of Shetland.
Coastguard helicopters from Sumburgh and Stornoway were called to a fire on the Petrojarl Foinaven floating production storage vessel at 15:00.
A number of crew were evacuated to nearby installations. The incident is thought to be under control.
The vessel, which is about 95 nautical miles west of Sumburgh, is in the process of being decommissioned.
A BP spokesman said: "BP is working with its duty holder Altera Infrastructure following the incident on the Foinaven Petrojarl floating production storage offload (FPSO) vessel earlier today.
"The incident, involving a fire in a store room, was quickly brought under control and 30 non-essential personnel were safely transferred to nearby installations as a precaution.
"The safety of our staff and contractors is central to everything we do and we will continue to work with Altera and the relevant authorities to understand what happened on this occasion."