A bomb threat triggered a full evacuation of Norwegian facility Ormen Lange Thursday morning. Later in the day, the Norwegian police made it clear that no actual threat was determined.

The local police informed about the incident on Twitter at 09:16 CEST.

”Unresolved situation at Ormen Lange. HV [the Norwegian National Guard] has team on site. Police on the way with resources,” the police wrote in the tweet.

In a press release issued shortly before 11:00 CEST, the police inform that there was no basis for any real threat. The police is familiar with the suspected caller, who has engaged in similar conduct on prior occasion.

Operations will now proceed as normal, says Nordics External and Governmental Relations Manager at Shell Jan Soppeland to Norwegian news agency NTB.

”As a result of the police’s clarification and our own assessment, we will normalize operations and send evacuated staff back to work,” says Soppeland:

”We need to attend to the people who were evacuated and we will go over the situation to see what we can learn from it. As far as the incident itself, we must refer to the police on this matter.”

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