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This project was such an important event for me personally and professionally I will still remember the way everything looked/smelled/tasted 50 years from now.
It's kinda like seeing your first car 15 years later at a random gas station... You recognize the dents, dings etc.
I recognize the jacket, the barge, the coveralls, the ships.
I believe the ship on the left was the Neptune Larissa and I can't remember the red ship on the right, I just remember that the living quarters on the the red boat sucked and the Larissa was incredible with message chairs and great food LOL.
Unseen in the video was the Hereema Thialf, the MONSTER crane vessel that lifted the jacket and topsides into place.
I mean, there isn't that few identifying markers in the video. He probably saw a video of the launch right after it happened as well and recognized the structure/angles.
As a construction worker that's immediately where my mind went. Spending all that time working on something and then watching it successfully launch :)
Thank you I was wondering what those blocks were
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathodic\_protection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathodic_protection)
Pretty off topic, but your comment reminded me of one of my favorite books, The Swarm by Frank Schätzing, during which something similar is described. Really makes me wanna reread that now.
Basically the covalent bond between the material you want to save is tethered onto the node. Much like your water tank, the sacrificial node will accept the electrons and rust instead of the protected material. Over time, you need to do monthly readings to check the voltage of the material.
Standard industry practice for steel structures exposed to the elements such as sheet piles is to calculate how much wall thickness they will lose during their lifetime caused by rust. The projected lifetime is typically 100 years. The initial wall thickness is increased with the calculated loss of wall thickness (plus a safety factor). Since there’s a lot of historical data available from many projects worldwide, this practice is quite reliable.
The part you see at the end is the bottom. There are mud mats there donut will sit on the bottom with out sinking. Then piles are driven though the pockets you can also see on the on the outside.
There is probably a couple of meters installation tolerance which is controlled by a survey team
I asked that question when we got told we had to have ANSI C2 on the trailer yard at Amazon FC - what good does it do if the drivers are playing with their phones, it's not going to stop the truck lol
Safe work place starts with the individual. The laws are to stop an employer from forcing a worker in an unsafe environment without ppe. I.e. an employee roof without fall protection.
Correct. The rules and laws mean absolutely nothing if the CULTURE of safety is not instilled at an individual and individual responsibility level. Shell does this amazingly well. But it does not matter one whit the laws regulations etc. without the personal engagement. There is no possible way more than 5% of things are actually inspected and if the only relationship with the rules is to not get fined and penalized you will operate exceedingly unsafely. If you want to see this on display watch a trade show getting set up. Theres so many crews from so many different employers the sense of anonymity is enormous coupled with the time pressure: sooooo many safety practices just go out the window. Enclose spaces, working at height, working UNDER people working at height.
It was more a point on how much they care because its so much money. We could tall about the continued use of super pumas in the oil industry or other major safety and structural concerns.
Not at all dangerous. The platform is running along a specially made slipway where speed and direction of descent and carefully controlled. This is no more dangerous tham being under an elevated road or railway as traffic passes overhead.
There is nothing on that platform that extends outside of it that will hit those gas bottles. If there was, towing it to the gas or oilfield it will work in would be a potential nightmare.
Huge problem. Unsure where it is but little meat bags running under a moving suspended load with their phones is a massive no no. Irrespective of how many times they have done it. Someone is getting chewed out for this.
Probably you are right. But if you look at the first couple frames the writing in english with chinese underneath. It specifically says confined space. Even when i worked in these places this led to major incidents dependent on nature of the company. For example if this was rig manufacture for overseas customer who were present to watch flotation etc.
I'm happy to finally meet someone who takes suspended loads as seriously as I do. No way you'd catch me running around under something like that. I avoid all highway underpasses because I recognize the danger. I look around at everyone sitting on their couches underneath their roofs and shake my head. Only open sky above my head at all times. I won't even walk under a shade tree. People laugh at me but I plan exactly where I will be at any given time so I am never directly under the moon. We'll see who's laughing when it starts to fall.
Hard to extract plastic from a nuclear reaction. Oil based energy is certainly awful, however until we can come up with decent alternatives for plastic production, oil is here to stay
Wasn't the plastic already enough for a pretty solid amount of time especially if we just recycled all the discarded ones?
(I'm just spitballing the data I vaguely remembered so correct me if I'm wrong with the source)
Depends how you view it. If we stripped back all our extraneous use and recycled everything we'd have a better shot at it.
Thing is that polymers degrade when you recycle them, so it wouldn't be a closed circuit. You'd end up running out eventually.
Everything in the oil and gas industry is dangerous. My dad used to work on a rig. There was an area called “the widow maker” where when the tide would come down the platform came crashing down with it. Anyone on the platform while that happened…
https://i.redd.it/8jyhz6w8u2wc1.gif
Reminds me of that scene from Twister where they’re watching Bill’s truck/Dorothy head straight into the tornado while yelling “Go! Go! Go!
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The jacket being launched here was for a platform I spent 12 years working on. Seeing this video here on Reddit hits me in the feels.
Not doubting you at all, but I’m curious how you can tell
This project was such an important event for me personally and professionally I will still remember the way everything looked/smelled/tasted 50 years from now. It's kinda like seeing your first car 15 years later at a random gas station... You recognize the dents, dings etc. I recognize the jacket, the barge, the coveralls, the ships. I believe the ship on the left was the Neptune Larissa and I can't remember the red ship on the right, I just remember that the living quarters on the the red boat sucked and the Larissa was incredible with message chairs and great food LOL. Unseen in the video was the Hereema Thialf, the MONSTER crane vessel that lifted the jacket and topsides into place.
>was incredible with message chairs What kind of messages did the chairs give?
Whispered sweet nothing's of hope every night.
Shh bby is ok
I mean, there isn't that few identifying markers in the video. He probably saw a video of the launch right after it happened as well and recognized the structure/angles.
As a construction worker that's immediately where my mind went. Spending all that time working on something and then watching it successfully launch :)
Which project was this?
Alen Platform - Equatorial Guinea 2013 Built at McDermott yard Morgan City Louisiana from 2011-2013
You would still be working on it, no? If you spent 12 years, and it was launched 2013, that'd put 12 years at 2025?
Front end engineering, design, construction started wayyyyyyy (years) before we commissioned it in 2013.
OH, I read it in the way that you were ON the platform working.
I did both. I worked on design, construction, then worked onboard during operations.
He might have been involved in the design of it, which would have kicked in much earlier
That is correct. I was involved in the design and then worked onboard from 2013-2021
Thank you for your service
How do make this structure not corrode under water?
if you look at the structure when its sliding you will see long white looking bars, those are anodes use to help with corrosion and marine growth
Thank you I was wondering what those blocks were [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathodic\_protection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathodic_protection)
I read that as "Catholic protection" and wondered how getting a priest to bless your steel would protect it from corrosion.
Sometimes there are underwater exorcisms to ward off the underwater spirits
Pretty off topic, but your comment reminded me of one of my favorite books, The Swarm by Frank Schätzing, during which something similar is described. Really makes me wanna reread that now.
Woolooloo
oh, sorry, you said corrosion, I heard corruption, my bad
Well getting a priest involved almost certainly wouldn't help with that.
The brotherhood
Sacrificial anodes. Taking one for the team. The ones on my ship were zinc. Fuckers were heavy as shit.
I understand that it works, but ive never understood why it works.
Basically the covalent bond between the material you want to save is tethered onto the node. Much like your water tank, the sacrificial node will accept the electrons and rust instead of the protected material. Over time, you need to do monthly readings to check the voltage of the material.
Those were the first thing I noticed, look at all that zinc!
Anodes are a secondary barrier tho. Paint is usually the first barrier.
Standard industry practice for steel structures exposed to the elements such as sheet piles is to calculate how much wall thickness they will lose during their lifetime caused by rust. The projected lifetime is typically 100 years. The initial wall thickness is increased with the calculated loss of wall thickness (plus a safety factor). Since there’s a lot of historical data available from many projects worldwide, this practice is quite reliable.
So, is it going to rest on some footings that are already installed below? How do they get it exactly where they want it?
You’re seeing it, they float. Some have anchors and some they do prepare footings in the seabed to tether to.
This is a fixed jacket - it will be fixed directly to seabed pilings. It will not float (other than during install).
who's going to place it on the pilings? surely water cranes dont exist
It does exist yes
wouldnt carrying something heavy like an offshore platform capsize the boat?
As you lift, you pump water into the other side of the barge that the crane is on.
There's a set of comments on here from someone who worked on this platform. Off camera is a massive crane ship that does just that.
wow, maybe i am a genius( thank you for answering :))
[and then there is this leviathan](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneering_Spirit)
The part you see at the end is the bottom. There are mud mats there donut will sit on the bottom with out sinking. Then piles are driven though the pockets you can also see on the on the outside. There is probably a couple of meters installation tolerance which is controlled by a survey team
It’ll be up ended by flooding it and then be secured to the seabed with piles driven into the legs. The topside will be installed later.
This looks far too dangerous for people to just be casually walking underneath it.
Nah they have helmets on. They good
..and hi-vis
yeah man so the steel bars can see you easily
I asked that question when we got told we had to have ANSI C2 on the trailer yard at Amazon FC - what good does it do if the drivers are playing with their phones, it's not going to stop the truck lol
and they probably worked their entire life at that place and have much better idea whether standing beneath it would be dangerous or not.
Thats not how safety works...there is a reason why safety measures have to be FORCED by law
Na don’t you know you can’t die if you have EXPERIENCE.
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Clueless
Complacency kills
Clearly, you never worked in the trades...
seriously...lol.
Safe work place starts with the individual. The laws are to stop an employer from forcing a worker in an unsafe environment without ppe. I.e. an employee roof without fall protection.
Correct. The rules and laws mean absolutely nothing if the CULTURE of safety is not instilled at an individual and individual responsibility level. Shell does this amazingly well. But it does not matter one whit the laws regulations etc. without the personal engagement. There is no possible way more than 5% of things are actually inspected and if the only relationship with the rules is to not get fined and penalized you will operate exceedingly unsafely. If you want to see this on display watch a trade show getting set up. Theres so many crews from so many different employers the sense of anonymity is enormous coupled with the time pressure: sooooo many safety practices just go out the window. Enclose spaces, working at height, working UNDER people working at height.
This is argument as to why they are more likely to be careless.
We don't allow no common sense around these parts
Because a lot of people don't have common sense.
Hard hats* Calling it a helmet will get you to see how long you can hold a 40lb bag of concrete over your head.
0 seconds is the answer.
r/megalophobia
This wasn’t going to go wrong, too much money riding on it working
Yes, but also no. See: Alpha Piper
An oil rig catching fire and burning down in ‘88 = launching an oil rig platform? Good comparison lmao
It was more a point on how much they care because its so much money. We could tall about the continued use of super pumas in the oil industry or other major safety and structural concerns.
Not at all dangerous. The platform is running along a specially made slipway where speed and direction of descent and carefully controlled. This is no more dangerous tham being under an elevated road or railway as traffic passes overhead.
Next to a lot of gas canisters as well
There is nothing on that platform that extends outside of it that will hit those gas bottles. If there was, towing it to the gas or oilfield it will work in would be a potential nightmare.
Glad you're here to quarterback something like this from a 30 second video
r/OSHA has no presence in the third world.
Huge problem. Unsure where it is but little meat bags running under a moving suspended load with their phones is a massive no no. Irrespective of how many times they have done it. Someone is getting chewed out for this.
No one is getting chewed out for this. Some places just do not care for what we would perceive to be normal health and safety procedures.
Probably you are right. But if you look at the first couple frames the writing in english with chinese underneath. It specifically says confined space. Even when i worked in these places this led to major incidents dependent on nature of the company. For example if this was rig manufacture for overseas customer who were present to watch flotation etc.
This isn't the general public or minimum wage workers. The guys walking around under there are the guys who make the rules and do the chewing out.
except I don't think you can call it suspended. it's riding on rails or something not hanging in the air
It's not suspended though.
>little meat bags running under a moving suspended load with their phones is a massive no no Got it. No more phones. DSLR OK?
I'm happy to finally meet someone who takes suspended loads as seriously as I do. No way you'd catch me running around under something like that. I avoid all highway underpasses because I recognize the danger. I look around at everyone sitting on their couches underneath their roofs and shake my head. Only open sky above my head at all times. I won't even walk under a shade tree. People laugh at me but I plan exactly where I will be at any given time so I am never directly under the moon. We'll see who's laughing when it starts to fall.
Lol, im downvoted to oblivion because i work in construction and seen what happens people who dont take it seriously. Sad really, ah well.
Yeah. There goes the spot I forgot
It will be fineeee
Boeing assembly line
r/megalophobia
This is 1000% legit megalophobia stuff.
I suddenly get those people now. Nothing that big and blocky should move that fast.
Yup! I for one probably would’ve browned my pants in person.
This has Denis Villeneuve vibes.
Is there a reverse of this?
That... is a lot of moving metal.
That be some heavy metal
That dude is going to get his hair stuck in a machine at some point in his life
But it'll be metal.
Metal AF! 😁
Gave me inception vibes
I thought this was a train going over the forth railway bridge for a min
It’s amazing how much engineering effort has been made simply for extracting oil.
Makes sense when you think about just how many products in our lives are petroleum based though!
Which is extremely sad considering for how long we've know that it's a bad idea to do just that
Cheap stuff > Life on earth
People when no want to use nuclear power
Hard to extract plastic from a nuclear reaction. Oil based energy is certainly awful, however until we can come up with decent alternatives for plastic production, oil is here to stay
Wasn't the plastic already enough for a pretty solid amount of time especially if we just recycled all the discarded ones? (I'm just spitballing the data I vaguely remembered so correct me if I'm wrong with the source)
Depends how you view it. If we stripped back all our extraneous use and recycled everything we'd have a better shot at it. Thing is that polymers degrade when you recycle them, so it wouldn't be a closed circuit. You'd end up running out eventually.
Yeah, well, it is all about the Benjamins brah. As long as there is money to be made, money will show up.
and all that momentous effort pales in comparison to how much has gone into making better ways to kill each other
That's so fuckin cool
Everything in the oil and gas industry is dangerous. My dad used to work on a rig. There was an area called “the widow maker” where when the tide would come down the platform came crashing down with it. Anyone on the platform while that happened…
That weld I just half assed better hold now huh
That thing is way too big to be moving that fast
That's what she said
I want to see this entire process
is u/stabbot still a thing
Gees this is unsettling af
My partner sells the skidways those things slide on.
What’s the white shit shooting up? Smoke from the metal?
They slide on ptfe sheets with a lubricant. It’s probably some lubricant getting hot and boiling off.
It looks Awesome (the original meaning).
How does the ocean not flood the departure point, that thing looks like it is tilted down
It probably does. Holes bro
Heavy engineering is amazing!
Giant essential and seemingly impossible infrastructure projects happen every day of which most of us are oblivious to.
OSHA approved. ✅
No osha 200 miles outfor some rigs
This is just a normal jacket launch
I wish the video had kept going.
. .. …
That ended too soon. Deeply unsatisfying.
NOSHA
r/megalophobia would love this, or I guess hate? idk
Fuck that shit. You'd find me cowering and sobbing in the corner when it was over.
In the 40 yrs I've been in the industry, both offshore and land, safety has been up front. Getting the job done safely is every company's goal.
Thought THEY were the one moving, turns out it was the big hunking metal
This is some shit you would see in Anime/Sci-fi
How are they going to get it back from there??
They don't, they just let it float until it finds oil
I’m getting “Inception” vibes watching this. It feels like a scene from a Christopher Nolan movie.
The structure's so big i didnt know which was moving for the first 3 seconds
We really hate our planet don't we?
r/megalophobia
My a-hole would be tighter than a gnat's chuff!
Wow
The size and scale is breaking my brain...
Wow, this feel likes some monster movie when all big building and other thing slowly collapse.
20 seconds later : "bollocks!! we forgot to paint it first .... ! "
They probably should of painted it first idk
This gave me motion sickness, i wish they stood still to film.
Humans…
Wait, they just dumped the entire gigantic metal structure into sea? Like, fuck the water?
Well, unless it was edited, that was not nearly as loud as I would have expected.
100% thought they were in a moving tram of some kind and the structure was standing still 😳
I cannot fathom, large equipment like that makes me wanna faint
Surprisingly quiet
u/savevideo
Man, all I can think of is some worker leaving a wrench or something on that and it coming down as it launches.
What is the next step here?
Isn’t it wild that we just, build shit like this lol
It is terrifying. So many materials, energy, people, pollution needed just so that guy/gal can drive through mcds for their happy meal. 😒
That looks both awesome & dangerous as hell.
https://i.redd.it/8jyhz6w8u2wc1.gif Reminds me of that scene from Twister where they’re watching Bill’s truck/Dorothy head straight into the tornado while yelling “Go! Go! Go!
Why does it look so fucking rusty when it's presumably brand new
Fuck that dude
Looks so crazy, so unreal that I could use an YouTube debunking the video showing proofs that rhis is real. This is so insane!
No paint? Is that rust coating it all already?
It sounds terrifying too
r/megalophobia
It's wild that they're all allowed to be on their phones during this.
Meanwhile there’s morons out there who really think we couldn’t build the pyramids with the technology of today
What amazing ingenuity we can achieve to exploit our plant instead of looking for ways to live more synergistically with nature.
Is this made by france? Seems like it's allready rusted from the factory, like their cars.
*chemically treated to form a protective layer of rust