Same shit, different ship

[DrWilly]

Which is why you always turn those things off when going away.

[david44]

How's your flange tax?

Need you assk?

FlangeTAXstistic of course

The ole bumgun is a bit like colour tv ,bumming ,Plaa Ra and duff bistros/nightclubs you never go back!

[BLD]

Which is why you always turn those things off when going away.

That's exactly what I do.

[Mendip]

Which is why you always turn those things off when going away.

And also, don't forget to hide the aircon remotes.

[baldrick]

And make sure they do not buy Xiaomi or redmi phones with built in infra red capabilities

[DrWilly]

And also, don't forget to hide the aircon remotes.

its 16° outside and the family still have the ACs on…

[Mendip]

^ You should stamp that out immediately. I try to enforce a 40 degree rule, although I relaxed it a bit when the wife had the flu.


The last view of Statfjord C before we departed (B and A in the background).



Next location, Valemon for the next couple of days. This is an unmanned platform.



My cabin fridge.

Contrary to popular opinion it doesn't contain slices of Norwegian salami and a water melon with a hole gouged out.



But I won't be sharing its contents. What happens in my cabin fridge stays in my cabin fridge.

[bsnub]

Double post.

[bsnub]

I try to enforce a 40 degree rule, although I relaxed it a bit when the wife had the flu.

That is just cruel. You really are a cheap miser.

[DrWilly]

Valemon for the next couple of days. This is an unmanned platform.

All robotics?

The end of the oil worker pig?

[Edmond]

Yeah, that sentence caught my eye.

All operated by guys in an office onshore? Hard to imagine an entire rig operating without one human on it.

[Edmond]

Must be a tad creepy for the crew of ships connecting up to it. That it is completely uninhabited, but fully operating. A bit like a Terminator or Transformers movie. That shiz be alive, and knows you're its enemy.

[dirk diggler]

Unmanned platforms are quite common. I’m not sure about the one that Mendy is heading to, but in the Gulf of Thailand alone there are around 400 unmanned Wellhead Platforms.

A jackup or a drilling tender barge can just rock up and rig up to it and do whatever’s required - Drill, Intervention etc then fcuk off again to the next one. The wellhead platform is then left producing oil or gas and flowing it straight to a manned platform of FPSO for processing/metering/separation etc before being piped or shipped to a refinery on the beach.

Wind turbines are also unmanned.

[dirk diggler]

And once the reservoir’s tapped out you can just pick it up and stick it somewhere else.

[Mendip]

Today we looked through the round window again...

The Valemon Platform!



The topside sits on a steel jacket in 135m of water, as opposed to the concrete GBS structures at Statfjord.

The Valemon gas and condensate field is located in the North Sea between the Kvitebjørn and Gullfaks South fields.


Valemon was proven in 1985 and production started on 3 January 2015.
The Valemon development concept utilises a bottom-fixed steel platform with a streamlined separation facility for gas, condensate and water. Valemon is unmanned, designed for remote-control from an operations centre at Sandsli in Bergen. Water depth in the area is 135 metres.

The weather has come up beyond the limit for safe launch/recovery of the dredging machine so we're filling in the time with a large site survey around the Valemon Platform. Approximately 2km by 0.8km of seabed will be mapped by various sensors, including sub-seabed.

There's Equinor's Askeladden jack-up dill rig on the horizon. We'll also be doing another site survey for that rig later, before it moves to a new location. Next to it is a tanker loading up oil at a loading buoy. Gas is transported by pipeline from the platforms around here.



The Valemon field is just across the UK/Norway border from Shell's now decommissioned Brent oil field, that lent it's name to Brent Crude Oil.

All robotics?

The end of the oil worker pig?

Despite being unmanned and operated from shore, we had to disrupt operations today for a helicopter to the Valemon Platform, so personnel do occasionally visit for maintenance and the like.

Coincidentally enough, a Norwegian geo I am currently working with mentioned that her dad used to be an engineer on the platform. Norwegians offshore generally work a rota of 2 on 2 off, 2 on 4 off, an amount of time off I can only dream about. She said that her dad had no back to back, so he carried out maintenance during his (and the rest of the crew's) work rotas, but the platform remained unmanned during the interim.

She also mentioned that her father is seven years younger than me... which was a bit unnecessary I thought.

[BLD]

Cheeky bitch

[DrWilly]

[Edmond]

Good to see a young gal following in her father's footsteps in such a male dominated profession. Which I presume it is. He must be tremendously proud, if he can still feel such things at his advanced age.

[david44]

jack-up dill

you said it not me

"A Floydian slip" Holmes?

"Lemon entry" Watson

[DrWilly]

Are we watching the beginning of Flowering bromance?

[Mendip]

^ If I was going to turn gay it wouldn't be for a reminiscing, hairy-arsed Brummie bus driver, I can assure you.

In fact I am one of the most ungay people I know and cringe when guys give these 'man hugs' at the end of an offshore work trip. A brief but firm handshake is more than enough for me.

The only males on this planet that I show overt affection towards are Yogi, Tommy and Max. I enjoy a cuddle with my dogs.

Good to see a young gal following in her father's footsteps in such a male dominated profession.

You would be surprised, this industry isn't nearly as male dominated as it was thirty off years ago. There's five geos on this boat and three are of the female persuasion (however the two seniors are male!). There's a female data processor on board, a female in the ROV crew and even a female officer on the bridge. There are also three females in catering/cleaning, which was always the more traditional department for female personnel.

The times they are a changing. There's bladdy wimmin everywhere.

I'm not sure how I feel about it to be honest, but after seven months of socialising with a pack of street dogs and a 13 year-old daughter, I'm glad that I can still hold my own when conversing with attractive, intelligent and ambitious young Scandinavian women. However I have learnt to avoid certain subjects such as my views on this LTGB stuff nights out on lower Sukhumvit.

[DrWilly]

Hugs by a sailor after an offshore trip? Sounds like hugging a rental after a long time, short time no, long time yes. It’s only good manners.

[armstrong]

Hugs by a sailor after an offshore trip? Sounds like hugging a rental after a long time, short time no, long time yes. It’s only good manners.

Willy hugs hookers pass it around.

[taxexile]

indeed, for someone who has spent his whole forum life slagging off mongers, sex workers and the towns they all gravitate to, that was a surprising post.

[BLD]

Do you think hua hin has no mongers? Ona side note old mate Johnny there's something happening does quite an informative YouTube for mongers and retirees pretending not to be mongers