"Currently the strike has no effect on our production," Equinor spokesman Eskil Eriksen said. Equinor recently changed its name from Statoil.

"We have three rigs and one vessel that do drilling and well operations for Equinor. There are no changes on projects and start-ups for now."

(Reporting by Lefteris Karagiannopoulos, writing by Gwladys Fouche; editing by Jason Neely)