NINIAN CENTRAL Platform

Ninian Central is a circular concrete platform and was built at Kishorn in Wester Ross in the Howard Doris Yard and commissioned by Chevron. At the time of construction in 1978 it was the largest human movable object at 600,000t.

The jacket is made up of 7 concentric rings to act the outermost pierced to reduce seabed scouring and to act as a breakwater reducing impact of waves.

It sits in 136m of sea and rises to a height above seabed of 156m.

It acts as the hub of the Ninian Field relaying the production of the two other platforms and associated wells.

Since 2002 it has been operated by CNRI.