Perspex paperweight showing the layout of the Brent system
AssociatedAssociated with
Shell UK Exploration And Production
(The Hague, Netherlands, founded 1907)
CollectorCollected by
Mr William Main Adams
AssociatedAssociated with
Brent Field
Date1970s
Object Namepaperweight
Mediumperspex
ClassificationsNorth Sea Oil and Gas Industries
Dimensions4 x 10cm
LocationOn Display - Aberdeen Maritime Museum
Object numberABDMS045438.19
About MePaperweight showing the layout of the Brent Field in the North Sea with its subsea pipelines. It also shows the Brent Spar which was an oil storage and loading facillity. By 1995 the facillity was seen as surplus to needs by the operators Esso/Shell. Their original plan to simply sink it in deep water sparked huge protests in 1995. This prompted tighter regulation and ensured that decommissioning was more tightly regulated and that the redundant installations be dismantled and recycled or reused elsewhere.Brent Spar was eventually used as part of a new harbour at Stavanger.
Conoco (UK) Limited
1980
Conoco (UK) Limited
Feb 1985 - June 1985
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