The ongoing slump in the offshore market has changed the landscape of the Turkish shiprecycling centre of Aliaga.
Adem Simsek, whose Simsekler Group operates one of the larger shiprecycling facilities there, describes Aliaga as becoming a high-rise town as the massive legs of oil rigs tower over the landscape.
“Everywhere you look there are rigs," he says.
Simsekler has recycled dozens of semi-submersible and jack-up rigs over the past couple of years, and Simsek says they just keep on coming from the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil and the North Sea.
