Brent Charlie topside removed from North Sea by Pioneering Spirit
Shell's Brent Charlie platform has been removed from the North Sea in the end of an era for the iconic oil field, which gave its name to the Brent crude benchmark.
Shell's Brent Charlie platform has been removed from the North Sea in the end of an era for the iconic oil field, which gave its name to the Brent crude benchmark.
Doubt has been cast over decommissioning plans for Fairfield Energy’s Dunlin field, as UK regulators walk back support to leave key pieces of oil and gas infrastructure in place.
Fresh questions have risen on whether Shell will be allowed to leave the huge legs of the Brent field in the North Sea.
A decision on whether Shell will be allowed to keep the giant legs of the Brent field in the North Sea forever has been “postponed”.
Part of the team behind the heavy lift operations to remove Shell’s iconic Brent platforms are setting up their own decommissioning business.
Oil giant Shell received a £113 million tax refund from the UK Government in 2018.
When a company sells a division, the restructuring that follows often creates a chance to review its values and vision, as JD Neuhaus UK managing director Steve Walker explains.
Shell has been fined £60,000 after a technician was severely injured by a gas cylinder on a North Sea platform.
The Brent Delta, a platform that was three or four decks high, has been stripped down to its absolute bare bones.
In the year since the Brent Delta platform came ashore for dismantling, its past and present owners have found there isn’t much that can’t be reused or given away.
A new decommissioning contract worth tens of millions of pounds is expected to safeguard about 150 jobs at energy service giant Wood Group.
Able UK has released time-lapse footage of the Brent Delta topside being skidded onto quay six at its yard in Hartlepool.
One of the North Sea’s most iconic pieces of oil and gas infrastructure arrived in a murky Hartlepool last night after more than 40 years offshore.
The world's largest vessel by displacement, the Pioneering Spirit, set a new world record when it lifted the Brent Delta top side last month in a single go.
The wife of a pilot who was killed after a Chinook crashed on return from a North Sea platform has paid tribute to her “wonderful” husband.
This time last year, the crew on the North Sea's Brent Delta platform gave the song 'Talk Tonight' from the Oasis' 1995 album The Master Plan their best go.
A senior executive from Shell's multi billion dollar Brent field decommissioning team said the delay in deploying the enormous would not add to the cost of the project, despite putting put back a year.
Scaffolding was left precariously dangling from Shell's Brent Delta after storm weather battered the platform.
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The crew of the Brent Delta have joined up once again for a sing-a-long on the North Sea platform. Offshore workers marked Christmas on the platform with their very own version of Elton John’s Step Into Christmas. Earlier this year the crew took on Oasis. Watch the video in full below.
The crew on the North Sea’s Brent Delta platform, which is set to be decommissioned, gave the song ‘Talk Tonight’ from the Oasis’ 1995 album The Master Plan their best go. Watch the video to see more. Take a look at Subsea 7’s own viral music video here.
Shell has confirmed that its ambitious Brent Delta topside decommissioning programme has been approved by the UK Government.