The decommissioning of a North Sea platform will create 35 jobs in Shetland.

Repsol Sinopec Resources UK (RSRUK) said today that its Buchan Alpha platform would be dismantled by Veolia at its Dales Voe site in Lerwick.

The vessel started production in 1981 from the Buchan field, about 100miles north-east of Aberdeen.

The nearby Hannay field, which achieved first oil in 2002, was also served by Buchan Alpha.

The rig took on almost 150million barrels of oil over a 36 year stretch.

Production was suspended last month.

RSRUK said it had agreed a revised safety case with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) that would lead to the platform being removed from the Buchan field by 2018.

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