EE&HL Newsletter

The contract that finished building the ship

A €2.6 billion vessel. A four-platform award signed before it could lift anything. An eleven-year payoff.

The wreck that could not be priced

The engineering calculation couldn't be checked before it started. Neither could the price.

The platform that could not miss its window

A 656,000-tonne concrete base. A weather window measured in days. Ten tugs that could not wait.

The crossing that could not share a method boundary

Three contracts. Three methods. One artificial island that had to be exactly right before either side could finish.

The campaign that had to come back

Two lifts. Twenty months apart. One sequencing dependency that still shapes £44 billion of North Sea decommissioning.

The bridge that couldn't wait for its piers