Sujet
Graythorp, Graythorp, Hartlepool, 25/09/1973. Creator: John Laing plc.
Légende
A view of the construction of an oil platform at Graythorp, showing cranes around the emerging structure. In the early 1970s Laing Pipelines Offshore constructed the Graythorp fabrication yard and dry dock on the site of the old William Gray Shipyard. The company created a dry dock which was used for the construction of fixed platform North Sea drilling rigs for the BP North Sea Oil Project. By 1972, one thousand men were working on site to build a tubular structure which would support a drilling rig in the North Sea destined for the Forties Oilfield. The cranes on site at Graythorp included two 509 Revolver cranes, capable of lifting 813 tonnes, and six Manitowoc cranes imported from America.
Date
1973
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England
Notre référence
HRM21A84_465
Model release
Non
Property release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
94,6Mo (3,9Mo) / 54,8cm x 43,2cm / 6476 x 5104 (300dpi)