Offshore pictures

[Sweeney]

ha now thats actually quite funny :)

are you not meant to be "working" though

[AndyP & Lenore]

quote:Originally posted by Sweeney

you must be awfully busy

Off tonight.

And on a high after Murray's win!

[Sweeney]

ah fair enough, your still a skiver though

[X30YES]

quote:Originally posted by AndyP & Lenore

Seriously though. Excellent pics Angus. I had no idea they were built like this these days. Actually I always thought they were built in a dry dock then towed out to sea by a couple of frikkin huge barges.

You've been watching the movies again two wee winky thingy's for her indoors

Everything is done onshore now and working before it sails , all they have to do is join it all together connect the cables /pipes /fire and gas systems between the modules commission it and press the go button .
The Jacket (leg structures) are secured by 20m long x 5m dia pins hammered into the sea bed ...pile driven ...4-5 each corner, on each leg

[AndyP & Lenore]

quote:Originally posted by X30YES

quote:Originally posted by AndyP & Lenore

Seriously though. Excellent pics Angus. I had no idea they were built like this these days. Actually I always thought they were built in a dry dock then towed out to sea by a couple of frikkin huge barges.

You've been watching the movies again two wee winky thingy's for her indoors

Everything is done onshore now and working before it sails , all they have to do is join it all together connect the cables /pipes /fire and gas systems between the modules commission it and press the go button .
The Jacket (leg structures) are secured by 20m long x 5m dia pins hammered into the sea bed ...pile driven ...4-5 each corner, on each leg

Basically the same as any prefab McDonalds restaurant then. Except you don't see many McDonald's restaurants anchored to the sea bed.

[AndyP & Lenore]

quote:Originally posted by AndyP & Lenore

There's so many different quotes you could put in here and it'd be just as funny:

"AGGGHHHHH!!!! Lift it up! It's on my finger!"
"Anyone seen my sunglasses. I left them on the platform, but now I can't find them."

[MartinSullivan]

As Angus says modular build is common for this type of thing nowadays, Im doing some work on a project for a new aircraft carrier - unfortunately none of the shipyards left in the UK is big enough to handle it - so its being constructed on 6 different sites, and assembled later - last time I built an aircraft carrier it was an airfix kit, I reckon this is going to be pretty similar - the glue coming out of all the joins and the transfers all on squint or curled up.

[X30YES]

North Sea ...Sun Set in the Brent Field midnight and midday

[Sweeney]

Is that a tanker in the distance?

[X30YES]

quote:Originally posted by Sweeney

Is that a tanker in the distance?

Night pic is the Stand-by boat and the Day pic is the supply boat

And this is a Taxi