Leyal Demtas, the Turkish yard selected to carry out the dismantling and recycling of Shell’s Curlew floating production storage and offloading vessel, was recently placed on the European Union’s list of approved ship recycling facilities, writes Rob Watts.
Shell’s decommissioning plans for the FPSO are likely to face a high level of scrutiny as they come at a time of heightened safety, environmental and ethical concerns over the scrapping of other floating production units at facilities in Bangladesh and in South-East Asia.
