A Look INSIDE an Amazing Six-storey $1 Billion Offshore Platform 

If we have technology to build... They could build more? Make a state? 🫵😊

Our* intelligence

@@Azdingue He’s an alien visiting from another planet😺

It's because unlike you, some people actually goes to school

@@getlost3810 GFY

@@getlost3810 lol 🤣

No way! I was the lead engineer on this project.

@@ShahyadG No Way! I was the lead engineer on this project.

@@jakobmuniz238 I remember you. You worked for that Steve guy.

Your lying in the internet has gotten out of control Paul.

Ron? Is that you! How yeah been you little reach around master you! Still tuggin away without consent? Or did the last reach around rehab finally work?

There must be decent recreational facilities on these outfits. How many hours a day do you work? May I ask how the drills go from vertical to horizontal under ground? What kind of watch do you wear at work?

hats of to you sir respect

You make $1M per year?

@tikitavi7120 Facilities are ok, just the basics, I usually work anything between 85 to 95 hours a week, an average of 13 hours a day, no days off, the drilling it's kind of complicated to explain but here you go... The drillpipe is actually quite flexible. It’s actually rather difficult to drill a perfectly vertical well in most formations without taking a ridiculous amount of time. Once you get a slant well pointed in the correct direction with the proper BHA, bottom hole assembly and drilling parameters: weight on bit, flow rate rpm and more it may track that direction with little to no intervention Horizontal is not that difficult. It is hard on the drillpipe. In especially abrasive formations, it can drastically reduce the life of the drillpipe. For horizontal wells, as long as you have a vertical section above the horizontal section, the weight of the pipe in the vertical section pushes the pipe forward in the horizontal section

@rsstnnr76 I do, 1M it's not a lot compared to what the executives make. Actually on this world of craziness 1M it's not that much

two birds one stone

Makes sense

Isn't it to pressurize the remaining hydrocarbon for further extraction as well?

Makes sense. The ocean surface would be all pot holed and bumpy from the uneven ocean floor. That's why the rest of the ocean is perfectly flat.

It is not a big hole full of oil. The oil and gas is trapped in porous rock. It’s not a lake of oil

how are they?

@@B2InFeRnoIcedAxeminecraftI bet they’re pretty nice 🙂

Yeah, thats what I was hoping to see.

@@B2InFeRnoIcedAxeminecraft Think prison conditions and divide it by at least two. I've worked on eight or so rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and Trinidad, and it's miserable in my opinion. EOG Pelican in Trinidad had one operable shower for all the hands, and it was filthy. I worked on BP Horn Mountain in the GOM when the weather was in the 30's, and there was no hot water to shower. That's the kind of conditions you can expect to run into. The food is usually awful contrary to what some may say. That said, some like offshore work because they often work a two week on/two week off schedule. It's not worth it to me. Although I'm glad I got to experience what it's like, I'm never working offshore ever again unless the pay was for all 24 hours of the day at quintuple my normal rate.

The food sounds horrible and boring - no free time spaces to train or have fun : very Russian . Note they did not show the accommodations - bound to be miserable .

They are like machine's

it looks like 👍 they have taken notice of the ocean ranger and piper Alfa disasters

Not really, skilled personnel are all over. South Korea was chosen for the cheap contract labor. For context, this has been my industry for two decades.

@@jbllc6873 a shame countries don't cultivate this Profession like they should I quess ur from a western country where these things are in decline?

The Egyptians who built the pyramids get the gold for me

That not too hard, since all physics and chemical simulation do in computer

@@teknosql4740 you do realize computer is not enough to simulate all physics IRL right?

@@edamb6044 no, simulating multi physics and chemical reaction on building like this is not hard for computer, especially on modern computer farm, and you need to know all modern facility that need precision design always using computer design

Lol yeah sure@@teknosql4740

Lol thats what I said

s/can/could/

To dig out fossil fuels, causing climate change and funding war. Imagine what else the brains could achieve

On an individual level we are not all that intelligent. Where our strength has been is collective intelligence, collective knowledge, sociability, and building on that every generation through teaching. The better we have gotten at working together the more civilization has progressed. It is literally what separated us from the rest of the animal kingdom.

You mean, when we are motivated by greed and wealth, right? There are no volunteers working here.

@@michaelg7601 Which is another reason why war and xenophobia are detrimental to our species, if humans could act as one single entity there is nothing we could not achieve together. Nationalism and patriotism are archaic traits, we should all just be proud to be human.

We (American) been doing this since 1930's

😞IKR, SMDH.

I tottaly agree what a wonderful world it would be

War has helped us advance at an incredible speed 🤷‍♂️.. wouldn’t have most of our tech at home if the government didn’t spend crazy amounts on tech for the military

No, you were right, this was pure bait N switch. Screw this guy.

Yeah, really wanted to see the whole thing. The outer structure is amazing as well but it's like a floating city, let me see the "city parts".

@@idontthinkso666bait and switch? He showed us everything that’s actually important

​@xBluesy you could argue those areas are just as important considering they lives there months at a time, even years..

I've been on 3 regular sized rigs as a temp worker and the absolutely blew my mind with the size and scale. This rig could prob fit those 3 in it easy. Amazes me how they can FLOAT something like that on the ocean and set it down on the legs.

Imagine what we could do if we used these resources for saving our planet, instead of destroying it for profit. Or for researching how we can improve our political systems. But no, we rather stare in awe at a giant piece of metal sticking out of the ocean.

@@nilsp9426shut the fuck up

@billymadison4903, yea nuclear power plants are also pretty amazing facilities.

Too bad humanity are too busy killing themselves for who gets what, and how much

makes my brain hurt just thinking how much math is involved lol

Somebody has to destroy it all eventually. Job security?

Well oil is pretty important if you want fuel for your war...

@@therealalbrechtdurer Yet, you enjoy their products immensely on a daily basis, no? Or, should I say, of every minute of every day sort of basis?

why do u think they invest so much $$$ into it... same reason we have war

War is the driving factor for almost every industrial achievement.

diamonds aren't actually expensive or rare...they're common. Jewelry diamonds are only made expensive by a few Cartels controlling the rate at which they are put on the market.

After over 100 years, Schlumberger have re-named themselves to SLB, just to confuse the likes of Greta Thumberg 😃 Plus they own Cameron, the company name on the chair in the Drill Shack

Mankind you pc follower

Aint no women designing this lmaoo

Imagine just eating the other 3 people instead, despite having 4,000 cans of SPAM.

if you're in an apocalypse, how do you think the helicopters and ships are going to bring supplies out? why on earth would you want to be isolated in the middle of the ocean. can't even fish from that rig, once food runs out, you're eating your neighbor

Well cooked arn't ya?

@@cwr8618 No new supplies would be coming. Goal is to find a place with enough stored, stockpiled food whilst being close to somewhere you can get food. Supplies initially intended for 300 people will last a dozen man group for years. Supplementing that with fishing. Also at 2:51 we see the distance from the lowest part of the rig to the water. You can easily put some poles up there with line going deep enough in.

@@nukiesduke6868might be enough food for a bit and possibly fish from there, and they said their desal plant was high tech. but no freedom to roam or expectations the resources would be available or interested in flying or boating to that rig to save anyone amidst their own apocalypse.

About the same amount of engineers it takes to change a light bulb. 😉

3 or 4 thousand

I’m not a design engineer, but I’m marveling at the sheer ingenuity at complexity of such engineering. It’s overwhelmingly awesome.

“Empty spaces?” Like giant caves, you think? No. More like the little pores in your kitchen sponge.

white people

I know, where do you even start?

lots of underwater scuba welding@@lynneanthony168

Good question

Watch deepwater horizon

And yet they can't figure out how to time traffic lights together in cities

Right? Can you imagine trying to engineer one of these beasts????

Yeah, this guy sucks. Total bait N switch crap.

@@idontthinkso666 i thought the video was great, even if it missed a few parts. you should try making a video and see how it goes

@@idontthinkso666 I feel like he actually stole this video and voice overed it. The guy in the video and his voice are saying completely different things...

They have some videos on showing exactly that. It's a bit complicated to explain but isn't rocketscience in itself once you see it.

Thank you for the additional and corection information. Appreciate it❤

Dude, people are stupid. You can't expect them to understand that. People with a 5th grade education can't understand geology. C'mon man!

Yep. Many people make that mistake. Partly from the eco-nuts who complain about fracturing to increase permeability.

noted

And also your lack of skill

Well, if it were made by union labor in the states the 10 billion would be accurate.

@@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh Very good point.

@@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh lmfao how do not know unions already been used.

​@@Cosmicmonkeyman This was made in Russia and Korea. Don't know don't care if Korean or Russian unions were used, do know that US unions were not used thus the price and timelines are not egregiously inflated. There is a reason that we went from the ship building capital of the world to less than 1% of ship building and almost all of that is due to government requirements to buy domestic for certain things not because it's in the least bit competitive. Unions with mob connections and other connections to the Decorate parties are corrupt as fug and destroy domestic production.

@@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh It was built almost entirely by Daewoo and engineered/operated by Exxon, which makes sense because it would never be completed if the Russians had to build it. They mostly just put up money. If you think US unions are bad (and they are. I don't disagree), try doing business in Russia. It's like the mob runs the place. Also, the project did cost over $10 billion. Not sure why the video says only $1 billion.

Practical engineering youtubes channel explains this

It's called directional drilling.

The bit is smart.

They use the oil they extract from the sea bed.

​​​@@aaronjennings8385No it doesn't. The oil it's pumping out is crude, it needs to be refined before it can be used to power anything. Berkut is powered by three Cat 3516B (HD) generator sets that run on diesel fuel.

it showed the generators that power the platform.

I’m guilty of doing that before however that full panel of buttons on modern platforms are all shutdown buttons of various types so are never touched hopefully

Murica

they didn't build it at sea. they built it on shore then flaoted it to site. yes they assembled it at sea (which was amazeing) but built on land as the vid shows and assembled at sea.

How they transported, assembled, and operate that in the middle of the sea is incredible.

full blown russian propaganda under disguise of 'science'

it sure is