The Gloria oil platform, which extracted for 43 years of gas from the Black Sea, will be decommissioned as of May

The Gloria Oil platform, which extracts gas from the Black Sea since 1976, will be closed on May 1, to be decommissioned and scrapped, said Sorin Gal, director of the National Agency for Mineral Resources (ANRM), quoted by Agerpres.

„In the 70’s, the first explorations (oil tankers) in the Black Sea began, and in the 80’s the Istrian perimeter began operating in the famous Gloria platform, about which I would like to give you a breaking news: on 1 May will be deactivated, moved to a dry place and scrapped to scrap metal. The Gloria platform will leave us this year,” Gal said.

Marine drilling platform Gloria is a four-legged, self-supporting platform with tubular material.

Gloria is the oldest machine of its kind in Romania and began drilling on September 16, 1976, at a distance of 72 nautical miles off the Black Sea, at a maximum water depth of 90 meters in the Istrian perimeter.

Currently, Gloria is owned by OMV Petrom, which exports 10% of Romania’s Black Sea natural gas production.