Has Jeff gone into business in Thailand?
Seems a brave move when based on the other side of the world.
Has Jeff gone into business in Thailand?
Seems a brave move when based on the other side of the world.
It's not the same gallery. You have to create your own (new) albums for your own gallery.
Go here: Looper's Albums
Then click on Create New Album: https://teakdoor.com/album.php?do=addalbum
Or go to your profile View Profile: Looper - TeakDoor.com - The Thailand Forum
and click on Add Album: https://teakdoor.com/album.php?do=addalbum
^^Looper, the new TD way is called albums. Look in the drop down menu under Community up at the top.
Too late...
^^^^^
I'm open to advice if there's a better way to attach photos for the forum. This was the only way I could get to work when I first joined and I just continued with it.
To be honest all I've got is pics of dogs and offshore installations anyway...
I'm never quite sure if your posts are tinged with sarcasm! But, its a boring nightshift and I don't need much encouragement, so...
Tonight, working at Åsgard B semi-sub. Same script as Oh Oh's diagram a page above. Even got a tanker waiting in the background for loading.
One of the flowlines leading from a well, transporting oil to the riser and up to the semi-sub for storage. A couple of nice cod following the survey, a pollock in the background. These lines are around 20 years old and have deep-water coral growth (300m deep).
If you've ever wondered what the seabed looks like in the northern Norwegian Sea...
The seabed is criss-crossed by iceberg ploughmarks - caused by the bottom of drifting icebergs grounding at the end of the last ice age. They can be around 20 to 30m wide and 7 or 8m deep.
(if these pics aren't appropriate here please someone say. I don't want to fill up the thread with irrelevant stuff if its not wanted...)
Last edited by Mendip; 15-06-2019 at 08:45 AM.
...^good stuff...though, of course, my main concern is the soi dogs...
Having spent 40 years in offshore drilling, when people on shore say they are bored! - they have no idea what true boredom is, 03:00 stuck in the middle of the ocean with only yourself to talk to, combine that with no or a limited internet connection - that's boredom - have fun.............
Are semi-subs, presumably designed for mobile drilling platforms rather than storage, available cheaply?
I worked at Heerema in London, many eras ago. They wanted to move their design group from paper and pen to CAD. A one man office when I started, their computer system manager. We quickly devised work sheets added AO plotters and review stations. After holding training courses for their engineers they started on the design and documentation production. Originally 2D but because they did a lot of heavy lifting around the world using cranes like these;
They utilised the 3d CAD models of their cranes, along with subsea maps of anchors/pipelines to plan approach and removal of the cranes when adding topside modules to the installed platform legs. Starting with drawings but moving on to step by step 3d model visuals. The 3D moving barge, the 3D platform, anchor lines and pipe lines became quite complex. A good team and a booming business.
I moved on to Southern Switzerland to design Petro-chem plants, mainly onshore, but some tankers converted to storage and processing gas. Looking out and up from the windows to see alpine meadows in the summer and ski runs in the winter helped. The Swiss, Germans, Dutch and Italians do seem to have lots of festivals where drinking, dancing and singing seemed compulsory.
Yes, offshore is very boring , until the alarm siren goes off at 8:45 in the morning. What's your local time now
Last edited by OhOh; 15-06-2019 at 07:30 PM.
A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.
Husband and wife: Simon (44) and Edna (83).
A husband and wife say they’re as happy as ever despite funny looks they receive because of their 40-year age gap. Edna Martin, 83, says she still enjoys a happy sex life with toyboy Simon, 44, who she spends the evenings cuddling on the sofa ‘like a couple of kids’.
Metro
Simple Simon needs to keep the old dear away from the knitting needles,bugger me, what a jumper.
^^^^, I have no idea on costs but I would think a lot of the semi-subs are now purpose built to be used as production platforms. With new technology the industry is moving into ever deeper water where permanently anchored solutions are not viable, or would be extremely expensive.
Troll A in about 340m water depth is a concrete gravity based structure but is in an area of level seabed and soft soil conditions (there are some great pictures of Troll Alpha on the internet). Further north in areas of irregular seabed and very hard soil conditions a deep water, anchored structure would not be viable, or at least would be prohibitively expensive, hence semi-subs and FPSOs (I think).
I occasionally see Hereema heavy lift barges installing topsides while we're installing subsea infrastructure in new developments. They are quite a sight close up.
Here ya go then Tom...
Some time ago while walking the dogs, they got excited and dragged me across the road to find this...
A dog had fallen down a drain and got trapped. What can you do? I went back home, got my ladder and drove back to get it out.
Eventually I managed to clamber up the ladder with the dog, after which it promptly bit me on the hand and ran off. It didn't seem like the most grateful thing to do, and I'd like to think of it as more of a thank you nip rather than a malicious bite, but either way it broke the skin.
That was some time ago and nothing came of it, but with the stories of rabies in Thailand I would think a bit harder next time. But what can you do? I don't seem able to just walk past something like that and just hope I never find another dog stuck down a hole and so don't have to make that decision. With hindsight I think the best thing to do would be to get the rescue guys out and let them take care of it.
Yes, many semi subs being scrapped for pennies as there are too many rigs on the market, the cost of conversion would be high with new regulations though. Doubtful if it would be cost effective in this day and age as "hull" a small percentage of overall cost, Chinese shipyards cheap and they build good hulls, during the last boom they were building a lot of hulls which would be floated to Singapore and the like for topsides.
The last FPSO to leave China was for Shell, a round rig, hulls were originally built for drilling rigs, very stable, DP3.
^I'm sure the guy who schedules the evacuation practice drills has a look at your work roster. Or is it one of your own duties?
Never figured Tom for a hairy arsed rigger and the insight into midnight sea creature persecution was a revelation.
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