Norwegian rescuers are working to stabilize an oil platform with 75 people onboard that is drifting about 100 nautical miles from Oslo, the rescuers said Wednesday according to RIA Novosti.
Rescue services said a coast guard ship would tow the platform as soon as weather conditions improve.
The oil platform, Bredford Dolphin, operated by Norway's Fred Olson Energy company, recently underwent a regular maintenance procedure, and was being towed to the Gdansk shipyard in Poland.
It went adrift in the south of the North Sea early on Wednesday, after a strong wind and rough seas broke the rope linking it to the tugboat.
The lives of the platform passengers, including British, Norwegian and Portuguese citizens, are not in danger, Solve Tanke Hovden of the rescue services told Norwegian TV.