A 105ft tall oil rig which featured in a film starring BillyConnolly and Michael Caine is to be put up in Aberdeen next week.
The Scottish comedian has given permission for the platform to benamed after him - The Big Yin.
The onshore oil rig is to be used for training staff for Frank'sInternational.
In a previous life, it was used in the 1986 comedy Water.
The film was a parody of the invasions of Grenada and theFalkland Islands.
It centres on Michael Caine, who stars as a gone-native consul onthe British island of Cascara, and Billy Connolly as a half-English,half-Cascaran islander.
It has taken Frank International around two-and-a-half years toget permission to site the oil rig at its Altens base in HarenessCircle.
It has bored a 1,000ft hole for training purposes and costs forthe entire project have run into thousands of pounds.
Guy Hustinx, European manager for the firm, said: "We feeltraining is a paramount responsibility. You cannot prepare people togo on a rig."
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