"They are shutting down the drilling at Snorre B but production is being maintained. We can maintain production independently as long as it is needed, it is not related to the drilling operations," said an Equinor spokesman.

He declined to comment on the platform's daily output.

(This story corrects to read North Sea (not Norwegian Sea), paragraph 1)

(Reporting by Lefteris Karagiannopoulos, editing by Gwladys Fouche)