![Shell's Brent Delta topside being transported to Able UK's yard in Hartlepool. Photographs by Ian Forsyth](https://wpcluster.dctdigital.com/energyvoice/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/05/brenty-4.jpg)
Shell’s Brent Delta topside was delivered to Able UK’s yard in Hartlepool this week, where it will be dismantled and recycled.
The huge, twin-hulled Pioneering Spirit vessel set a world lifting record on Friday when it picked the 24,000-tonne topside up off its three concrete legs in the North Sea.
The ship sailed to Teesside where it put the structure on a barge for transfer onto a purpose-built quay.
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