Mating, Conoco's Hutton Tension Platform

Artist Terence Cuneo (London, England, 1907 - 1996)

Date1984

Object Namepainting

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsOverall: Height: 75 cm, Width: 100 cm
Frame: Height: 97 cm, Width: 123 cm

AcquisitionPresented in 2021.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG010204

Keywords

Maritime

About MeTerence Cuneo (1907-1996) is renowned for his detailed artworks depicting industrial, transport and battle scenes. He was the artist commissioned to record the coronation in 1953.
He received numerous commissions, such as in this work for Conoco, where feats of engineering were to be celebrated. This work shows the Hutton Tension Leg Platform having the topsides which had been built at Ardesier being affixed to the jacket which had been built at Nigg on the opposite side of the Moray Firth.
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The first ever tension-leg platform (a floating deck permanently tethered to the sea floor) showing the joining of the two components