Huge steel jacket lowered into North Sea

Video shows part of a huge oil platform sub-structure being placed into the North Sea for positioning on the seabed.

At 134m high and with a footprint of 88 x 62m, the Statoil steel jacket weighs 22,400 tonnes with its flotation tanks and rigging.

The operation to install the Statoil steel jacket, about 93 miles (150 km) off the east coast of the Shetland Isles, took place on Sunday evening.

Pictures: Statoil

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