The UK’s Port of Blyth is embarking on its largest oil and gas decommissioning project to date, covering several topsides and jackets from three North Sea platforms, which were removed by Heerema Marine Contractors’ second-largest semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV), Thialf.

Port of Blyth recently brought three topsides and three jackets – removed from the North Sea during a single mobilisation by Heerema Marine Contractors’ Thialf vessel – into its Battleship Wharf terminal, which is the home of the port’s decommissioning facility, operated in partnership with Thompsons of Prudhoe – the principal contractor and designer for the project.