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The decommissioned Brent Delta Topside oil platform stands in a quay at the Able UK plant's Seaton Port after arriving recently to be scrapped on May 5, 2017 in Hartlepool, United Kingdom. In what was the heaviest single cargo ever to be lifted in the history of the oil and gas industry it arrived off the coast of Hartlepool on the Pioneering Spirit transporter ship from the Shell owned Brent oilfield, 115 miles north east of Scotland. Tugboats then towed the 24,000 tonne platform on a barge up the River Tees to the Able UK yard. The Brent Delta was one of the first platforms to be built in the early days of Britain's oil and gas industry. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)
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