Oil platforms Bravo and Alpha (right) at the Brent field. Production started on 11 November 1976, and on 13 December 1976 the first tanker was loaded. The Brent field oil was extracted by four platforms in an irregular SSW-NNE line. [6]

Standing in the heart of the North Sea, Brent Bravo spent four decades producing oil and gas for the homes and businesses of Europe. But the end of its service presented perhaps the biggest...

The Brent Bravo Topside Decommissioning Progress Report describes the offshore and onshore programmes of work to cut, lift, remove, dismantle, reuse, recycle and dispose of the Brent Bravo topside. This report also covers the work to fit concrete caps and Aids to Navigation (AtoN) on top of the legs of the gravity based structure (GBS).

As the UK transitions towards net zero, the next step is to decommission four platforms in the Brent Field and their related infrastructure. This is an enormous undertaking involving: There We Go’ – Lifting 25,000 tonnes in 9 seconds: Brent Bravo Lift.

Jun 18, 2019 · Oil giant Shell has removed a second platform from its iconic Brent field in the North Sea. Brent Bravo, 115 miles (185km) north-east of Lerwick in Shetland, produced its first oil in 1976. A...

The Brent field, operated by Shell, lies off the north-east coast of Scotland, midway between the Shetland Islands and Norway. It is one of the largest fields in the North Sea and is served by four large platforms – Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta.

Jun 18, 2019 · Bravo is the second of four platforms to be decommissioned and removed from the Brent field, following Brent Delta in 2017. The field has produced approximately 3 billion boe since 1976. The vessel Pioneering Spirit removes the 25,000-ton Bravo platform from the Brent field in the UK North Sea.

Jun 18, 2019 · Allseas’ record-breaking heavy lift and pipelay vessel Pioneering Spirit has safely completed the single-piece removal of the 25,000 t Brent Bravo topsides from the North Sea. Completed early Tuesday morning, the operation took approximately 4 hours, from positioning the vessel around the platform to the moment of the lift.

Pioneering Spirit lifts 25,000 t Brent Bravo platform • The single-lift removal of these giant topsides took 4 hours • Bravo is second platform removed by Allseas from North Sea’s Brent field • Pioneering Spirit has lifted over 130,000 t of topsides weight since 2016

Jun 18, 2019 · Allseas’ record-breaking multipurpose heavy-lift and pipelay vessel Pioneering Spirit has completed the single-piece removal of the 25,000-metric-ton Brent Bravo topsides from the UK sector of the North Sea.