NORWAY-ENERGY-METAL-OIL-ENVIRONMENT-CLIMATE

Decommissioned oil platform Gyda set to be demolished is pictured in a yard in Stord (Norway) on June 17, 2022. – It could have been their cemetery, but in this construction site in southwestern Norway, old oil platforms, emblems of the age of fossil fuels, are experiencing a new life stamped with the seal of the circular economy. Placed on the quays of the island town of Stord, three gigantic but obsolete modules, or 40,000 tons of material in total, are waiting to be dismantled and reduced to pieces.

(Photo by Alexiane LEROUGE / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY PIERRE-HENRY DESHAYES