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Oct 14, 2024, 10 tweets

The accidental dystopian beauty of oil rigs

1. Brage oil field, located in the North Sea 120 km northwest of the city of Bergen. Photo by David Hecker

2. The Cormorant Alpha platform, located 161 kilometres north east of Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland

3. Franklin Field, central North Sea. Photograph by Peter Iain Campbell

4. The Troll A platform off the west coast of Norway

5. The Draugen platform, Norway

6. Oil platform seen from Devereux Lagoon [Photograph by Nandaro]

7. The Goliat field, one of the biggest offshore oil fields in the world, located in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea. Photographs by Evgenia Arbugaeva

8. Hibernia platform, Canada

9. The Berkut platform, especially designed for working in harsh subarctic conditions, is the biggest oil and gas platform in the world. It is located in the Sea of Okhotsk off the Russian Pacific Coast

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