Actually it was a massive failure. The costs were unjustified, but overshadowed by the industry's inherent profitability. Today we produce rigs at less than 1/20 of the cost with the same capabilities.
I’m like super impressed that even while training with yoda across the universe and looking for Vader, luke skywalker was able to maintain a day job as a narrator for an earth television series even when so busy with Jedi training, truly a jack of all trades
I feel like I'm the only one who read that a "Mark Hamill" was narrating this, and went... "THE Mark Hamill?". THE Mark Hamill. He's a great narrator, good for him :)
31:25 not hard to tell this was made before 2009, seeing how this happened to Cougar flight 491, she crashed into the North Atlantic on her way to the SeaRose FPSO after a main gearbox failure killing 17 leaving only 1 survivor. Rest in peace...
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Tut!--You don't understand! This 'Geebyess' will have a full 360 deg,. 'vista' from it's highest point, and (I can't prove it) is said to have received proper comments from real pipe people!
you caught that too. i don't think too many people know. He going to do one on the Death Star and building an Imperial Star Destroyer, if that is what they call them. nobody caught that but you.
TODAY, ON THE OLD DOCUMENTARY CHANNEL... Seriously though, I remember this documentary from the late 90's. I thought about Hibernia GBS every now and then. Kind of a treat to run across this documentary again.
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I love history of Man made delovpiing a great oil plat from the beginning to an end how do you do that it takes a lot of time and so much knowledge and especially money to do it this brilliant of science tist whoever did people all over the world because not just one country to do it it takes a different nation of in humanity life of our time together we stand and together we succeed as profisonals in this world we live today
Great video but some of the story is a little off, the Ocean Ranger didn't sink because of the weather, a window broke and the ballast control room got wet so they lost control. Several times ships are called "barges", they were actually pretty special ships, Mighty Servants 1, 2 and 3, the Dutch vessel Transshelf and three ore carriers including the MV Nanticoke. The video is from 1998.
What about a 105 howitzer or a 155 canon to blast them before they are able to hit the platform. The pictures showing the "ice berg" hitting the platform showing it to very completely fall apart.
Commentator remarked that at the Piper Enquiry they stated if the men on board Piper Alpha had basic fire training the could have possibly survived. Rubbish. All on board had to have done their survival course, which included basic fire fighting. But on the night, their was no possible chance even an experienced firefighter could have done anything about. Even the biggest fire engine in the North Sea was beside it and had little effect. MSV Tharos. The ones that followed procedure perish, the ones that looked after themselves survived.
This must be a very old show.. I remember seeing news clips about Hibernia 25 years agio. `In fact I thought it was much older than that, but guess not..
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12:01 We've learned about this Ocean Ranger disaster in every HUET* training (usually after learning about "Piper Alpha disaster"), but they never show the aftermath footage. This is horrifying! * Btw: HUET: Helicopter Underwater Evacuation Training.
Brilliant... the triumph of human ingenuity over the rough forces of the North Sea. The engineering of Hibernian Gravity Base Structure is absolutely unbelievable. Kudos to everyone involved in this Project.
Amazing equipment on an Amazing piece of History in the unbelievable environment With Amazing men and women Congratulations on all of your achievements given to you by the Hand of the Almighty God.
So Sad those Rig Worker Died when they were just working. It is really a heartbreaking those guys died. Rest in peace. This is so so sad. I feel sorrow and sad for the rig workers. Rest In Peace.
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With what we now know about giant waves both those figures seem rather low. Waves of over 100feet do occur from time to time in these locations as numerous waves coincide occassionally, In fact the oil rig that sank(mentioned in the video) was probably taken out by a freak wave that smashed the porthole in the ballast control room and thus flooded the control computer and led to the capsize.
@Daniel Kintigh Well, that depends. Do you think global warming is a hoax and/or that the many environmental scientists around the globe coming to the same conclusion about human activities causing widespread environmental damage are simply paid off by enemies of U.S. interests? ...I so badly wish I was joking and that humans weren't that fucking stupid.
4:28. It will follow the coastline to avoid rough weather.. graphics show it going straight out to sea to the north than turning south . Only thing it does is go around the edge of the underwater Grand Banks. Tha. 47:45 ish. They say they touch down 5 feet from there marks on the sea floor but can’t celebrate yet because they still have the dangerous part of touching down on the sea floor to do next.
meanwhile sometime back, someone converted water into Hydrogen gas by use of electrolysis which can be used for welding and run a car's engine and is very green house friendly
i have often wondered why that is done more, sure it is less efficient to dump electricity into water to make hydrogen, but then it can be stored in a bottle.eletricity has resistance in wires and other problems. maybe someday, also hydrogen can be used in capstone mico-turbines, have you heard of them ? they have air bearings and 40,000 rpm.
Because the majority of electricity produced comes from fossil fuels. So you burn coal and oil to make hydrogen then burn the hydrogen to make water. In the end you would have been better to just use the oil in the first place. Hydrogen electrolysis is less like a production, and more like a storage, like batteries, but much less efficient.
Did any icebergs ever hit it? is there video of it? The thing has been sitting around for 22 years now. What will happen when it runs out of oil? salvage the whole upper structure, or just leave it there?
That's an interesting question I like to see answered. I think they would salvage the upper part, but leave the concrete base. It probably would turn into a reef. Like most man made structures put down in the water. I know some practices of retiring a ship is to just sink it with the intention of making it a reef, a home for sea life.
The fact that we need to be doing more and more extreme things like this to get something that we will eventually run out of should be weighing on us heavily.
Hibernia has successfully produced well over a billion barrels of oil in 23 years. She has experienced two minor spills which consist of a 100 barrels of oil in total. Grow up.
@@newfie8 Just because this rig might be someones bread and butter, it's still archaic. If reincarnation is real, I hope you come back as a seagull in a Dawn commercial.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam " Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough !" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
Martin Cardoso they don't use sand in the manufacture of cement, cement is made from heated limestone and gypsum. This mixed with sand and gravel makes concrete
Is it possible if engineers can build a surrounding wall of cement concrete couple of few distance around the oil rigs and other oil rigs too inorder to slow down the current of the sea when it's rough.
Have they forgotten John Smeaton's cement which is a mixture of equal volumes of 1 part lime + 1 part iron slag powder + 1 part clay powder. The hydraulic mortar invented by John Smeaton is composed of 1 part lime + 1 part iron slag + clay and mixed together to form a hydraulic mortar that sets and cures and hardens underwater. It was used to build the Eddystone Lighthouse made out of dovetailed granite blocks bonded together by John Smeaton's hydraulic mortar composed of 1 part lime + 1 part iron slag + clay. It was for 118 years before it was dismantled and reassembled on the original coast near within visual range of it's offshore location and still using the same original John Smeaton's mortar which is composed of 1 part lime + 1 part iron slag + clay. And during it;s 118 years of service exposed to the pounding waves and sea storms and salt sprays and salt air and salt water and salt crystals did not caused any cracks and did not caused any deterioration, in fact before it was dismantled John Smeaston's lime-iron slag-clay hydraulic mortar has remained as good as brand new WITHOUT ANY LOSS OF IT'S ORIGINAL STRENGTH! Total time from time of finishing of construction to present time, John Smeaston's lime-iron slag-clay hydraulic mortar has remained as good as brand new for 257 years WITHOUT ANY LOSS OF IT'S ORIGINAL STRENGTH! And the original base made out of the original John Smeaton's cement which is a mixture of equal volumes of 1 part lime + 1 part iron slag powder + 1 part clay powder is still 100% intact and UNAFFECTED by the corrosive effects and by the pounding of the waves all that time and only the rock foundation underneath is affected by the sea BUT NOT THE JOHN SMEATON HYDRAULIC CEMENT MORTAR. Time-tested and time-proven already, then why it is nearly forgotten and obviously being snubbed in a subtle way by today's so called advance civil engineering industries is something that is OBVIOUSLY SUSPICIOUS, ISN'T IT!?
@@orbonds3603 Slander is used by people who's ideas are so weak and illogical and can not stand the test of real reason and logic that they must find ways to silence any who challenge or disagree with those ideas. And you @OR Bonds are weak because your lack of knowledge only exposed your mental weakness and GREED AND ENVY TO THOSE WHO KNOWS MORE.
The cement absorbs the water, then the water chemically reacts with the cement to form an entirely new compound which is solid. You can remove the water by heating it up to a few THOUSAND degrees F. But that would take an incredible amount of energy. Any concrete sidewalk you walk on is dry, but it doesn't fall apart neither do concrete skyscrapers.
Im a concrete finisher, and I'll say you both are somewhat correct, but both missing the main reaction going on that us finishers love, and need to get our ass home by 6 pm.
Except fixed structures don't usually need to be a quarter of a mile tall just to touch the ground, get hit with icebergs, and avoid rusting while soaking in seawater.
@@BigEightiesNewWave I remember it differently, but memories are _always_ imperfect (a little fuzzy). I also could have sworn that the entire world had a different aspect ratio back then.
The world inner core is growing because humans have taken Oil and Gas out of the earth since 1852 and therefore there is room for the inner core to grow and therefore the heat on the earth grows from within, says Hendrik Johannesen from the Faroe Islands
Now we get videos of Nazi UFO _experts_ who point at a rusted Luftwaffe remote indicating compass and say "People are saying that thing was used to navigate in low earth orbit." Great_Stuff
Uh, *_what the fuck_* are you on about?!? I'm familiar with the mythology of "Nazi UFOs", and it has no relevance to discussions of oil rig construction. *_Wake up!!!_*
I am a Newfoundlander myself and it still never ceases to amaze me how big those bergs after travelling such a distance. I have observed them from shore and some look like giant castles and others like perfect rectangles floating in the water . Then i think about how much is still beneath the water. I recently downloaded some icebergs pics taken by a photographer for CBC News and many people called the pics fakes and the photographer an hoax but believe me i am 45 years old and they are out there and it's no hoax.
@@chadhunt7199 I'm sure they exist. I've seen pictures from the Coast Guard spotter flights. I was commenting on the fact that Antarctica, where penguins live, is a long way for those to have travelled. Disclaimer: I'm from Arizona and have never seen an iceberg or penguins in their natural habitat.
This is common. Check the DATA. Hibernia weight 450.000 tonnes. Troll A in the North sea, built in 1977, weight 1.2 mill tonnes. Still one of the largest man made structures on this planet. And it is not the only one, there are several almost as big in the same area.
Who told you it weighed 450,000 tonnes???? There was 450,000 tonnes of reinforcing rebar in the concrete alone!!!!! How do I know that you ask??? Because I worked on it for 5 of its 7 year construction!!! And when it floated it was the heaviest manmade object to ever float on water!!!
A couple of those slide scapes could make for a fun time but seeing that guy that keeps getting jam up on the slide makes me question the usefulness in a emergency
I hope this was filmed before all the results of the investigations around the ocean ranger disaster. Because if not, its beyond criminal how they down play it as just "big waves cause it to flip" and nothing else. Also suspect to enlist a super well known actor to narrate it as well.
The description of the ocean lab scale model test between 34 and 37 minutes into the video explained that waves alone did not flip the Ocean Ranger. There is a one or two sentence summary of the water coming through the porthole and shorting out the computers controlling the ballast tank valves leading to listing and the rig turning over.
Could develop Molten Salt Reactors for the same cost. With this there would be no need for oil. Liquid fuels could be made from sea water. No more problem with climate change. Why not.
What's this thing going to do when a 120' rogue wave hits? If there are 60 ft waves in a storm there can be an occasional double amplitude wave. That would put water right into the electronics causing the same issue as with the Ranger. Maybe this one will survive since it isn't floating.
The ocean Ranger flipped over and was on pontoons . This thing is like a giant boulder , big difference. Still a rogue wave would do some damage but not flip it.
THAT WAS ONE HELL OF A JOB SINCE I LIVE ON THE WESTCOAST NOT FAR FROM ALASKA, AND I'VE BEEN UP TO ALASKA TWICE +ONCE BY ROAD TO HYDER. I TOUR AROUND THE WORLD ALOT.
