Rig owners seek court order
The owners of the North Sea oil rig targeted by Greenpeace are seeking a court order to remove four activists.
Six members of the environmental campaign group had secured themselves to the rig in a protest over global warming.
A spokeswoman for BG International says two of the protesters have now left the Sante Fe 135 oil rig, 30 miles east of Aberdeen.
The activists climbed aboard from the MV Greenpeace support ship at around 6.30am.
The protesters are inside a three-metre bell-shaped survival capsule which they hoisted up to the underside of the platform.
Grampian Police have been monitoring the protest and a spokesman said two police officers and a support staff member are flying out to the installation.
Greenpeace spokesman Rob Gueterbock described the protest as peaceful and said it is over the threat to global warming from the opening up of new oil fields.
"They have painted 'oil kills' on one of the legs and they are just making themselves comfortable."
He said the rig had been chosen because it was in a new oil field, and the protesters would be staying there "as long as they can."
A spokesman for BG International says its priority is the safe operation of the rig - which is not drilling for oil at present - while the protest was taking place. He added that work had not been hampered by the campaigners.
