Graythorp, Graythorp, Hartlepool, Hartlepool
A part being transported by barge to the dock at Graythorp.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
Picture No
13460844
Media ID
45384331
Size
5314px x 5307px
(4.1MB)
Credit
© Historic England Archive / John Laing Photographic Collection / Mary Evans
Source
John Laing plc - Historic England Archive
Date
1973
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Barge Build Constructed Contractor Destined Drilling Fabrication Fixed Graythorp Hartlepool Laing Offshore Oilfield Pipelines Rigs Thousand Transported Tubular Watercraft
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