The large platform that will seal the Castor warehouse and remove part of the structure arrived at its destination this Tuesday, where it will remain for at least the eight months that the work is expected to last. The operation to unload the large platform and tow it to the Castor warehouse took place early Tuesday morning, off the port of Tarragona.

The offshore platform that will allow for the sealing and dismantling of the Castor platform, the underwater natural gas storage facility launched in 2012 by the Escal UGS company, arrived at the port of Tarragona at around 2 p.m. this Sunday. The impressive jack-up, The large self-elevating structure is the Noble Resolve model, property of the Noble Corporation company and has arrived from Denmark transported by a heavy lift vessel, a ship specialized in this type of transport. Over the next few days, the large platform will be towed again to be moved to the Castor warehouse, off the coast of Vinaròs. Once there, the jack-up It will deploy its three legs, each over 100 meters long, to reach the seabed and rise, creating a stable platform above sea level that will become the base of operations.

Thousands of tons of cement will begin to seal the Castor warehouse under the sea this spring, burying forever a mystery that no one has yet been able to solve: why did those earthquakes occur?