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11-12-2009, 05:05 PM
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I am Groot
 
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Just thought i would put up some pics of what i have being doing from early Aug until last week.
I earn a crust as a Ships Officer on AHTS,s or Anchor Handling tug Supply Vessels, for those that dont know what they are click on http://www.google.com.au/search?sour...&q=ahts+vessel The company i work for was originaly contracted to assist, along with a number of vessels, with the laying of a Oil/Gas pipeline from the Montara Production platform in the Timor Sea. The Jack Up Rig West Atlas (WA) was employed to re-drill the well and assist with the tie in of the pipeline. As you will of heard in the media things kinda went pear shaped from the beginning, it ended up with another rig and upto 10 vessels being used to get things back under control. Enjoy... Maneuvering the West Atlas into position alongside the Montara Platform..  Alongside the Montara Platform..  All jacked up, drill tower moved above platform..  Pipe laying barge Java Constructor being moved into place..  Happily drilling away then whoosh!! "thar she blows", that dont look right at all!!  Oil, Gas and condensate blowing out, this is what can happen when you dont have a Blow out Preventer (BOP) in place..  You can just see the lines hanging down from the rig, these are what the life boats used when the crew evacuated. I dont have any pics of the evac as we where to busy dragging the pipe layer to safety..  Spill Boom connected for oil recovery..  Vessel on the other end..  This is what light crude looks like, it burns the skin and the fumes certainly make the eyes water..    Sunset behind the rig, not exactly romantic but a good shot i thought..  Part 2.. The drill rig West Triton (WT) was brought in to drill an intercepting hole in the well and plug it, the WT was placed 1.5nm to the SE of WA for obvious safety reasons. It took five goes to hit the well, no matter what the media say, that is not bad considering the sea floor was 90m below WT, then they had to drill down 2.4km through the earth to hit a well hole under 10in in diameter!! The vessel i was on was connected up to the West Triton with a couple of hoses, when WT hit the well we started to pump the various liquids/mud to her so she could pump these down into the well thus plugging it, all went well at first but after ten mins of the well been plugged things turned bad quickly... Leak almost plugged, a couple of mins after this shot the leak stopped..  And 10mins after that the thing just erupted WHUMPH!!...The general consensus is the pressure built up until the plug could not hold it and let go, picking something up on the way which created a spark...  Disconneted hoses then moved away from WT..  One of the support vessels moving in to try and kill the blaze...  Vessel moves away to safety claiming the drill tower was moving, he was about 80m from the rig before moving...  Yep!! he was right, the base of the tower basicly melted, luckily it fell into the rig..  Having another go, eventually they gave up this approach, ever tried peeing on a house fire?..  Into the night..   West Triton in the foreground..  Eventually (after 2 days of brain storming) they reverted to plan A and we re-connected our hoses and resumed pumping into the hole to plug/kill it amazingly it worked first time, as you can see by the smouldering wreck in the distance..  And here..  The value of the rig alone was put at $250m US, scrap value anyone??, the amazing thing is the last fiberglass lifeboat hanging on the side is still there, everything else around it just melted and collapsed..  They are still counting the cost of the clean up and fire, and it will only keep climbing, as the wreck still needs to be removed... Hope i did'nt bore to many of you with this, i just thought some of you might be interested to see what some of us go through to put gas in your Barbie and Fuel in your tanks.. Cheers... 
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11-12-2009, 05:11 PM
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Interesting to know what happens when things go wrong. My old man used to work on an oil rig for Shell. He reckons it was hard work and I'm sure it is.
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11-12-2009, 05:13 PM
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OMG .. That is cool, and sad at the same time! Top pics mate!
Whats it like out there?
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11-12-2009, 05:21 PM
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Great photos! It's always great to see what people are doing in some exotic far away careers. Much more interesting then the desk work i used to do! But someone has to do it lol
Thanks for the pics
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11-12-2009, 05:22 PM
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I am Groot
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11-12-2009, 05:47 PM
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playing in my big shed
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thats a great string of pics from start to finish of an historic event.
must have been some pretty nervous times when things started to go wrong. very interesting job you have. was anyone hurt or killed during all this mayhem ?
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11-12-2009, 06:04 PM
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Interesting, thanks for sharing.
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11-12-2009, 06:04 PM
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I am Groot
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Cheers
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11-12-2009, 06:06 PM
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Great pics, and the story of what happened to go with it
How the hell did someone discover some stuff they get from out of the ground will someday make fuel? Is the drilling company at fault for not having the pressure valve not installed? |
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11-12-2009, 06:51 PM
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Great pics!!!
DJR-351, are you an engineer yourself? I'm over my desk job, and was seriously thinking about going into the oil/gas/mining areas. |
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11-12-2009, 07:14 PM
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I am Groot
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11-12-2009, 07:19 PM
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Excelent series of pics, not boring at all, makes some of our jobs feel soooooo boooring.
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11-12-2009, 07:20 PM
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I am Groot
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[QUOTE=rodderz]Great pics, and the story of what happened to go with it
How the hell did someone discover some stuff they get from out of the ground will someday make fuel? Is the drilling company at fault for not having the pressure valve not installed?[QUOTE] The answer to that one is way above my pay grade.... :
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11-12-2009, 07:37 PM
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great photos and thanks for the story on what happen out there mate.
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11-12-2009, 07:41 PM
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Thanks mate , very interesting .
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11-12-2009, 07:41 PM
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You blokes have got serious balls working in the middle of the ocean, having to deal with situations like that.
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11-12-2009, 07:48 PM
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What a great post
 : I've seen the email pics of this doing the rounds..but your pics and info are way better.
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11-12-2009, 07:54 PM
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I am Groot
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 but i spent 2 weeks on this, doing this. Photo from chopper that was trying to drop engineering parts to us, no fun at all... 
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11-12-2009, 08:08 PM
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great string of pics thanks for sharing
I take my hat of to you for doing what you do Jason
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11-12-2009, 08:26 PM
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playing in my big shed
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how th`did they do that.......... hit a bridge or something ????? or a plane crash into it ????????????
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11-12-2009, 08:59 PM
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Awesome pic's mate, unreal what the rest of the people on here do for a living
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11-12-2009, 09:04 PM
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I am Groot
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The Master was only a young fella in his late 20s, he thought he had killed the Chief Engineer in the collision as his cabin is amongst the wreckage, so he went down below and hanged himself... ...they dug the Engineer out of his shower 2 hours later without a scratch on him, then they found the Master in the steering compartment...
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11-12-2009, 09:05 PM
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That is truely a spectacle to see, thank's for sharing the pic's mate, never a dull momment in your line of work.
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Awesome post, thanks for sharing.
Edit: Except for that last story about the young guy hanging himself. Not quite so awesome.
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11-12-2009, 09:20 PM
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Fascinating.
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11-12-2009, 09:25 PM
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Not boring at all, I love that sort of stuff. Chuck up more pics, those are awesome.
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11-12-2009, 09:29 PM
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Awesome
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Great thread. Thanks for sharing
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11-12-2009, 09:36 PM
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@DJR-351,great photos mate,the trouble is though the general public never got to see or hear to much of the truth of that one. Nor just how dangerous a job it was/is to fix these things when they do go wrong.
I'd like to see those rabid greenies out there getting their hands dirty fixing that. What a great job you have and do, stay safe at sea mate,she can be a terrible mistress.
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11-12-2009, 10:06 PM
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I am Groot
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It's not all bad, some days can be quite relaxing....
 Cheers
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Where to next??
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Haaaaa..
Got a few pics like that. Reminds me of the time I was in Russia, watched a guy swimming laps in a lap pool chain sawed out of solid ocean ice. Freezing lol. |
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