Dismantling a Million Tons of North Sea Oil Rigs

Re:Dismantling a Million Tons of North Sea Oil Rigs by dboreham on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @02:15AM (#14543136)

Interesting to read this because as a kid I watched these rigs rise into the sky as they were built then floated out. They're building wind turbines in that shipyard now.

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Re:Dismantling a Million Tons of North Sea Oil Rigs by arethuza on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @04:13AM (#14543495)

I can remember watching one of the huge jackets for the Forties field being floated past the Moray coast in '74 or so.

A lot of people from fishing communities end up working offshore - either on the rigs themselves or on support vessels.

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Re:Dismantling a Million Tons of North Sea Oil Rigs by DrMonkFish on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @05:47AM (#14543754)

Harland and Wolff?

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Re:Dismantling a Million Tons of North Sea Oil Rigs by dboreham on Thursday June 15, 2017 @01:40AM (#14558139)

Methil, which built Brent A and at least three other large platforms. As others have noted there were several other yards involved at that time, such was the size of the North Sea fields development effort. Some historical info here : http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1976/mar/...

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Re:Dismantling a Million Tons of North Sea Oil Rigs by arethuza on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @06:32AM (#14543875)

Sounds like the old Highland Fabricators site at Nigg in Easter Ross, Scotland:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-3652...

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Re:Dismantling a Million Tons of North Sea Oil Rigs by Loic on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @06:10AM (#14543824)

It could be Invergordon. I was there last summer and have seen quite some wind turbines ready to be dispatched for installation.

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