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Brent Spar or Brent E, was a North Sea oil storage and tanker loading buoy in the Brent oilfield, operated by Shell UK. With the completion of a pipeline connection to the oil terminal at Sullom Voe ...
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Historically, spars were used as marker buoys, for gathering oceanographic data, and for oil storage. The spar design is now being used for drilling, production, or both. The distinguishing feature of ... The decks can accommodate a full drilling rig (3,000 hp) or a workover rig (600-1,000 hp) plus full production equipment.
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30th Greenpeace lands activists aboard the rig and occupy the Brent Spar ... The presence or absence of oil in the rig had not been the basis of Greenpeace's opposition to the dumping; nevertheless, Shell, several politicians and some media outlets suggest that Greenpeace's error in sampling data undermined the...
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Brent "E" was a floating oil storage facility constructed in 1976 and moored approximately 2km from the Brent "A" oil rig. It was jointly owned by Shell and Esso, and operated wholly by Shell, which gave them responsibility for decommissioning the structure. ... (Redirected from Brent Spar oil rig);
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Oil giant Shell caves in to international pressure and abandons plans to dump the Brent Spar oil rig at sea. ... The fate of the concrete and steel Brent Spar rig which, for 15 years, served as a crude oil storage tank and loading buoy, is now unknown.
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; Wednesday, November 25, 1998 Published at 19:42 GMT; World: Europe; Brent Spar gets chop; The end is near for the controversial oil rig; Work on dismantling the Brent Spar oil rig has begun.
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