Elf Enterprise Caledonia - Piper Bravo Platform B 

Was working offshore at the time this was brought out, to watch it being lifted and put into place was jaw dropping, later on mid 90’s I ended up working on piper b, you can see where piper alpha stood there is or was a marker buoy secured to it and the marker had a cross situated on the top, it made me think about that night very upsetting to know that most of the crew stayed in the galley and ended up at the bottom of the North Sea a dear price to pay for oil.

Helped build the main platform in Newcastle many years ago. Great vid.

This video saved my ass for a homework on offshore engineering. Is not easy to find info on Piper's Bravo construction process. Thanks a lot.

I was the consortium's photographer. Was on the jacket installation barge, clambered aboard overnight. the jacket was pushed off next morning Was supposed to be at 1030 hr but was pushed to 0730. Thick fog no light. Had to use a roll of 120 B/W pushed to 1200 asa to capture it. The jacket was pushed off by a single ram and it caught port side just momentarily, a slight lurch. Was also in the crane cab as the topsides were lifted on

What a relief to learn about a positive Piper rig!

I got sent to Piper Bravo 9 years ago for one trip and have been there ever since. Good platform and sound bunch of lads 👍

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I was Medic on Port Royal for the duration of the hookup then transferred to Safe Lancia for Saltire hook up. I ended up on Saltire for a while too. Great projects. Very busy with amazing people and a reverence was very much felt every day from what had happened before.

I know John L's comments were made 2 years ago, but lets not forget the reason Piper Bravo exists (it replaced Piper Alpha). Also lets not forget that the rules regarding offshore platforms in the UK are the strictest in the world (also because of Piper Alpha). I suspect those safety features were the state of the art then and are re-visited regularly.

I watched this one after the piper alpha documentary. was very sobering hearing them talk about the features I just saw epically fail. and knowing they were partially responsible

Had tears in my eyes watching this again 45 Years after the Tow-Out in 1978- as so many of those seen have since passed away. Just had the news that all 3 platforms will be removed from the face of the earth by 2028. Don’t know how the 600,000 Ton Central will be moved as it is a rather unique design. My experience as a contract computer field engineer started in the late 70’s and progressed through 6 job changes and as many ownerships from Chevron to Kerr-McGee, Canadian Natural Resources, Oryx Energy , Maersk etc . More than just 3 Platforms - The giant Central collected Pipelines from Ninian Northern (24" oil pipeline); Ninian Southern (24" oil pipeline); Strathspey (8" and 10" oil pipelines); Heather (16" oil pipeline); Magnus (24" oil pipeline); Alwyn (12" oil pipeline);Lyell (12" and 8" oil pipeline). This allowed over 300,000 Barrels a day to flow to the Sullom Voe Oil Terminal. The Crew had to be a mixed-bag as the film states, as we have to take care of every eventuality. Chevron loved ex-forces personnel who came as ready-made fire-fighters, medics, emergency response, air-crew, mechanics - and ICI & Mining Techs that were qualified in electrical safety in explosive atmospheres. Aside from the obvious hazards of gas and oil, we compressed gas to 300 Bar to export LPG, injected water to reservoir at 250 Bar, produced electricity at 11,000 Volts; handled explosives for well perforations and radioactivity for survey and inspection work . Whoever is your personal ‘supreme being’- who created the Earth - they certainly didn’t make it easy to find where they had hidden this treasure. 100 Miles out to sea, 500 feet of water and then 10,000 feet underground between faults and fractures - but we found it and delivered it. Proud to have been a small part of it, but equally glad that the World has moved on to more renewable energy. Remember, however, that over the half the hydrocarbons in each discovery are still down there , as the expense of recovering the rest does not justify the efforts. Crew members of the Ninian Field are still in touch socially , although some of us are getting rather old now.

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I admire any guy that chanced his arm and took a risk working in the oil fields. Its well paid. But its also shift work for weeks at a time hundreds of miles from home.

Worked on piper B great platform and great crew

I can't believe they can do this. Moving such giant things in water without any of it slipping out of control.

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I was on the hook up, very impressive 1992

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I am going to presume that after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the emergency shut off systems were revisited to ensure the same confidence displayed in the video with respect to them still remains.

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Everyone seems to like Piper B, best platform I ever worked on. Even today it still seems to be a happy place, have a look at Piper B Rockstars Video, it is brilliant.

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Woww! Four times the size of its predecessor (Alpha)... That's a lot of oil and gas for some energy hungry British, Scots, and Irish lands!

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