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Wednesday, 12 April 2017

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  • Six jumbo jets long … the £2.4bn ship that can lift an oil rigAs the Pioneer Spirit prepares for a record-breaking lift for Shell, we look at its role in cleaning up the North SeaFestooned with cranes, oil pipelines and manned by a crew of several hundred, the Pioneering Spirit sits in the port of Rotterdam like a giant marine version of a forklift truck.Next month this vessel, one of the world’s largest ships, will arrive in the North Sea and attempt to remove the 24,500-tonne top of a Shell oil rig installed during the oil boom years of the 1970s. If successful it will be the heaviest ever single lift of a rig’s “topside”, and only the second by this p...

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