Oil Rig Photos - Base of the Dunlin Platform

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Oil Rig Photos

No: 201 Contributor: Michael Koppenol Companies: Shell Year: 1976 Country: United Kingdom

Base of the Dunlin Platform

Shell's Dunlin platform is a concrete based structure. The base weighs over 225,000 tonnes and can store up to 838,000 barrels of oil. Production started in August 1978 with oil going by pipeline to Cormorant Alpha and then by Brent System pipeline to Sullom Voe, Shetland. She can be seen in position in picture #203.

Picture added on 04 December 2006

Comments:

There was an education or company movie made building this rig or one just like it. Is there any information that you know of where I could get a copy of that movie...Thanks

Added by Larry Henry on 09 May 2008.

I was working for EMI Electronics when I worked on this platform in Norway, was it Stord? I would also like to see more photos of the constrution of this platform.

Added by Kenneth Horder on 20 February 2009.

I'll be there on Friday....we'll see what its like then eh!!!!

Added by Darren Mason on 02 March 2009.

Anyone got any construction photos showing steel makeup in legs or termination of risers at subsea end?

Added by Clive Harrington on 04 August 2009.

This isn't Dunlin Alpha; Dunlin A is 9*9 cells and the shaft taper is much steeper.

Added by Alan Marson on 12 August 2009.

It was a lot of this condeep at Stord that time. Aker together with Norwegian contractors have made a lot of them. Those were the days, sad but true. In Stavanger at the main site for this condeeps are today appartement houses.

Added by Carl Peter Wiig on 30 December 2011.

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