I read that the four "Jigsaw" ships have finally been disposed of, and will no longer do any work for BP. This event marks the end of a saga which started in 2000 when BP had the idea of replacing 16 ERRVs with several helicopters based on platforms in the North Sea. This idea in its original form was completely loony, and so gradually they modified their ideas, finally having a couple of helicopter and four absolutely enormous platform ships fitted with equally large special vessels (there was one in the last upload) which would drift about out there and in the event of a problem launch on elf their rescue craft, which if necessary could storm off for land. There was a lot wrong, and here you see one of the ships without any rescue craft aboard.

Photo taken by Victor Gibson (me) in 2006 and posted here on 17th August 2020

 
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