An onyx-winged cormorant arced downward, diving below the inky water while a hippo yawned its tusky jaws.
Aberdeen-based Dana Petroleum said Cormorant East would produce about 5, 500 barrels of oil per day initially.
The Dunlin, Thistle, Northern Producer, Murchison, North Alwyn, Tern, Eider and North Cormorant platforms are also affected.
Cormorant East's other participants include Dana (20%), Antrim Resources (8.4%), First Oil Expro (7.6%) and Granby Enterprises (4%).
Production will be processed at the Taqa-operated North Cormorant platform, before being sent to the Sullom Voe terminal for sale.
The village was especially proud of the birds because they had taken first prize in last year's international cormorant competition in Japan.
The brown mud of its banks was a rich text of bird prints, and my boot marks joined the tracks of heron, cormorant, gull and egret.
The morning of my cormorant trip, the weather was gray and gloomy, the air raw and slightly nippy, but this did little to dampen my enthusiasm.
The Cormorant Alpha platform and its pipeline infrastructure were shut down after the leak was found in one of its legs during a routine inspection at 09:40.
Cormorant fishing is an ancient ritual that has been practiced in China and Japan for more than 1, 500 years, and can also been seen in other parts of the world.
As recently as the 1950s, there were as many as 500 cormorant fishermen working on the Li River, but now only a handful remain, mainly to stage shows for visitors.
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