Nigg Bay Fabrication Yard on the Cromarty Firth, Easter Ross. Scotland. XPL 3607-349
At the south east corner of the bay, is the former oil platform construction and fabrication yard, known as the Nigg yard, owned by KBR, the yard being operated by KBR Caledonia Ltd. It was opened in 1972 by a joint venture of Brown & Root and Wimpey Construction. The fabrication yard was "mothballed" some years ago and was put up for sale by KBR in 2006. In September 2008 KBR was reported to be in advanced negotiations with Birmingham-based decommissioning specialists, DSM. After the last Council elections in May 2007 the newly elected SNP group on Highland council took up the challenge of trying to secure the future of the Yard and the, then, Planning and Development Chairman, SNP Cllr Drew Hendry and officials set about meeting the various parties to urge them to thrash out a commercial conclusion to sale negotiations. He began a process, through Highland Council, and with the guidance of the Scottish Government and the help of HIE to create a new Masterplan for Nigg to lay out the opportunities for investor and simultaneously gained cross party agreement for the council to begin compulsory purchase preparation. The settlement of Nigg is an important North Sea oil centre. Former Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root owns the 170-acre ( km2) fabrication yard south of the settlement of Nigg. This is an important North Sea oil centre with a dry dock for repairing and fabricating oil platforms.
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Location: Nigg Fabrication Yard, Cromarty Firth. Easter Ross. Highland Region. Scotland. United Kingdom.
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