{"id":747479,"date":"2026-08-23T20:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T20:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/747479\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T20:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T20:20:21","slug":"worlds-largest-heavy-lift-vessel-carries-oil-platform-to-shetland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/747479\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s largest heavy lift vessel carries oil platform to Shetland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Deputy Chairman of Lerwick Port Authority, Colin Nicolson, said North Cormorant was the largest platform ever to come into Lerwick. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said it was emotional moment watching it come ashore, as he worked on board as a technician from 1987 until 1995. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I had eight good years on there and met many good people and made lifelong friends on there,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;One of my tasks was gas testing. There&#8217;s very few places I haven&#8217;t been on board, including the top of the drilling derrick and the tip of the flare stack.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was also part of the emergency response team, basically a fireman and advanced first aider.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputy Chairman of Lerwick Port Authority, Colin Nicolson, said North Cormorant was the largest platform ever to come&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-747479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}