CONSTRUCTION on the three technologically-advanced topsides for one of the most important UK North Sea oil and gas projects in years — the $4.5 billion Culzean development, operated by Maersk Oil — got under way at a ceremony in Singapore in early April to a loud musical accompaniment.

A traditional lion dance was performed to bring the project luck before Maersk Oil chief executive Jakob Thomasen stepped up to light the burners that would cut first steel.

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