BP restarts Alpha platform after unplanned outage, Bloomberg says

BP (BP) restarted its Alpha platform, which feeds into natural gas export streams to Europe, on Saturday evening after being out of operation for more than a week due to an unplanned outage, Zulfugar Agayev of Bloomberg reports, citing an emailed statement. Alpha will take a few days before reaching normal production and export levels. Meanwhile, the Bravo platform, the company’s second production platform in Azerbaijan’s largest natural gas deposit of Shah Deniz, was unaffected.