NORTHERN PRODUCER

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arrived Scrapyard

arrived Kishorn Port Ltd Scrapyard 10/2023 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10159902497815036&set=pcb.10162597267643943

Rig expected to be recycled in Kishorn

The 'Northern Producer' is “expected” to be dismantled at Kishorn, according to the head of decommissioning at EnQuest. In April 2021 the rig was taken off the EnQuest-operated Dons fields and towed to Kishorn. Upon its arrival, Kishorn Port Limited said the rig would remain on site until arrangments were made for it to be repurposed or decommissioned. At the Decom Week conference, EnQuest decommissioning director John Allan said the 'Northern Producer' may have already made its final journey as he did not expected Northern Offshore planning on reusing her. The 'Northern Producer' would mark the first major decommissioning contract for the refurbished drydock in Wester Ross, which was once a construction site for major oil platforms like the Ninian Central in the 1970s.