The rigs are back in the North Sea’s biggest parking lot, with the likelihood that at least six will be resident in the Cromarty Firth by the spring. Also parked pending being worked on is the base of the Hutton TLP platform, which had been en route from Murmansk, in Russia, to the US Gulf of Mexico for further use. The Hutton TLP was built at Ardersier and Nigg, with the two main sections married together in the Moray Firth.
Picture by Sandy McCook