Brent Spar, known as Brent "E", was a North Sea oil storage and tanker loading buoy in the Brent oilfield, operated by Shell UK. With the completion of a pipeline connection to the oil terminal at Sullom Voe in Shetland, the storage facility had continued in use, but by 1991, was considered to be of no further value.

The Brent Spar action survives in history as a classic Greenpeace campaign that genuinely did change the way humankind behaves in the world. The Brent Spar comes to rest in a Norwegian fjord, and would eventually be cleaned of toxic residues to become the foundation for a ferry terminal. © Robbert Slagman / Greenpeace

1998年11月25日 · For 15 years the Spar, a floating structure made largely of concrete and steel, served as a crude oil storage tank and loading buoy. She was decommissioned in 1991, and in April 1995 Greenpeace...

Brent Spar Dossier In 1995, Shell was embroiled in a public dispute over the decommissioning and disposal of the Brent Spar, a redundant oil storage installation in the North Sea. Brent Spar was damaging to our reputation: despite the support of independent scientists for our proposals, we did not win public acceptance.

Oil giant Shell has given in to international pressure and abandoned plans to dump its Brent Spar oil rig at sea. But the company's decision, which came just hours before the 14,500-tonne...

January 2023 marks 25 years since Shell decided on the re-use of the decommissioned oil buoy, the Brent Spar.[1] The fate of the Spar had been at the centre of an international dispute between Shell and Greenpeace in 1995, and it took until 1998 for a final decision to be made.

The Brent Spar was an oil storage buoy built and owned by Royal Dutch Shell (Shell Oil) in 1976. The spar (or large cylindrical storage buoy), 147 meters tall, was used in the North Sea to temporarily store crude oil.

Ten years after Greenpeace activists first occupied the Brent Spar on 30 April 1995, Greenpeace continues its mission to defend ocean life. - GP0487H The Brent Spar was decommissioned in 1991 and the owners, oil company Shell, decided to sink it at the bottom of the North Atlantic.

2020年4月15日 · In April 1995, a famous environmental protest and activist intervention began to unfold in Europe’s North Sea. A political, media, and direct-action controversy erupted there between the environmental group, Green-peace, and one of the world’s largest oil companies, Royal Dutch Shell.

Die Brent Spar, 190 Kilometer nordöstlich der Shetland-Inseln im Meer verankert, diente von 1976 bis 1991 als Rohöl-Zwischenlager. Aus finanziellen und technischen Gründen wollte Shell den Stahlkoloss mitsamt rund 130 Tonnen Ölschlämmen, Schwermetallen und radioaktiven Abfällen einfach im Meer versenken.