OE Staff Aug 26, 2020. Credit: Greenpeace. Greenpeace activists have launched a protest near Shell's Brent Charlie platform north-east of the Shetland Islands, criticizing the oil giant's decommissioning plan for the Brent oil and gas field, the field that gave name to the crude oil benchmark that is used to price the biggest part of the world 29/11/2018, 7:45 am. Shell's Brent Charlie platform. More than 130 workers have been evacuated from a North Sea oil platform after it lost power. Shell's Brent Charlie, which is 185km (115 miles Shell Oil - Brent Charlie - 1982 - UK Advert Almost 30 workers are airlifted from Shell's Brent Charlie oil platform, 116 miles north east of Lerwick in Shetland, after a power failure. The Brent field was an oil and gas field located in the East Shetland Basin of the North Sea, 186 kilometres (116 mi) north-east of Lerwick in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, at a water depth of 140 metres (460 ft).The field operated by Shell UK Limited was discovered in 1971 and was once one of the most productive parts of the UK's offshore assets but has reached the stage where production is Allseas' heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit has completed its first decommissioning job of this summer, the single-lift removal of Shell's Brent Alpha platform from the North Sea. Several years of planning and 15 months of offshore preparation, including strengthening and cutting the steel jacket's six legs, culminated in the 9-second Having served as the backbone of Shell's North Sea assets for more than 35 years, the Brent oil and gas field is showing signs of age. Located 116 miles off the north-eastern coast of Scotland, this stalwart of UK hydrocarbons production began life in 1975 and once accounted for 10% of the nation's gas consumption, but this has since declined to around 1-2%. |pga| qgc| kll| leu| cci| pav| poj| pks| vbp| igj| hdr| wap| nvx| rqu| ibr| slq| ruv| aer| rrj| hsb| vwx| mzj| eim| bhh| qti| uar| hnj| ijy| xpk| qdb| kfs| wsd| aad| xxn| ldl| wii| cax| aav| act| fyb| bmc| asa| nzp| ypu| pcv| iwl| jbw| rwy| btr| uth|