Quote Originally Posted by islaydarkblue View Post
Patrick Harvie of the Greens wants to shut down all these oil fields in the North Sea.
I knew that production is also taking place in a large oilfield to the West of Shetland as I personally know a person on Islay who was working on this oilfield.
He previously told me that production in this oilfield to the West of Shetland was difficult during the winter months due to the frequent storms in the area.
I assume that oil which feeds into the West of Shetland pipeline will be landed at Sullom Voe and it would belong to an independent Shetland Isles if they did not want to remain in an independent Scotland.
i worked on the CLAIR field when it first opened, its actually the the first rig in the Atlantic, they cant go any further west, because its too deep and would need to be rig ships.
It was quite common to get stuck on the Clair for an extra three or four days, not just in the winter, only drawback was you lost that time on your leave, because you were on a rota.