Shell’s Brent Delta topside was delivered to Able UK’s yard in Hartlepool this week, where it will be dismantled and recycled.
The huge, twin-hulled Pioneering Spirit vessel set a world lifting record on Friday when it picked the 24,000-tonne topside up off its three concrete legs in the North Sea.
The ship sailed to Teesside where it put the structure on a barge for transfer onto a purpose-built quay.