The Colossal Engineering Behind The World's Largest Oil Rig 

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I worked on the construction of Hibernia. From my memory, it was closer to 5000 workers at peak. Probably why we had a lottery for anyone on camp willing to get own accommodations. I can't remember how much they paid but it was profitable. Good memories.

The ocean ranger capsized and sank because of the port windows in the control room not being sealed, one was broken and flooded the control room causing serious malfunctions of valve controls which flooded the ballast tanks causing the serious listing and eventual sinking. All the other oil rigs in the area which were less suited to survive that storm survived just fine.

After being in storms that have left me actually shitting myself and swearing I’d never go back again to having glass calm seas that make it great to be alive Mother Nature will always find a way to surprise you and until I experienced my first lump of water/ rogue wave I didn’t then and still can’t explain it. You don’t have time to get scared it just happens so to say something is unsinkable is not only wrong it’s bordering on the criminally negligent so my view at the start of every trip was to pray for a safe trip.

Have two buddies that work on it for years now. They dont like the helicopter ride out there. And especially don't like the ride out on a supply ship when the weather is too bad for the helicopters to fly. My good friend fly the helicopters back and forth...that's more dangerous then working on the platform.

Excellent lesson on one small link in the chain of what keeps our modern world up and running. Thank you.

And now: Aasta Hansteen, is the biggest oil platform with it's 320 meters and 70.000 ton. Troll A, is the biggest gas platform with 472 meter,s and 656.000 ton.... Thunder Horse- as the largest semisubmersible production platform in the world: 59.500 ton.

Mark Hamil can make any topic super interesting:)

Watching this leaves you almost speechless and trying to quantify all the info, data,weights, heights, materials is impossible. I am totally in awe of everyone involved from supervisors ensuring "mixes" of materials are correct to the engineers designers et al. I am assuming these types of works and constructions go to tender but how do you begin with a project like this?

I work on Hibernia, video doesn't do justice on how big this thing actually is

My brother worked on the Hibernia platform from tow out till 2019.

I may stand to be corrected, but while it was being towed to its resting spot it was the largest movable object ever made.

Hibernia was ahead of it"s time

Engineering ROCKS!

Absolutely out this world. It’s just so unbelievable. Brilliant story.

What a great Video and good information 👍🏻

Nicely Produced 👍👍 two thumbs up

Just realised this actually video from the history channel is ,what nearly 26 years old.

I hear the Krusty Burger on the platform is doing good business.

I'd love to work on a rig like that. 💕

Who reads the comments while listening ?

An iceberg in the wild - that made me chuckle

This is old but I like watching it again

Siempre admiré el trabajo de las grandes obras de ingeniería. Esta plataforma es lo más superior que vi en mi vida. Enhorabuena a los proyectictas y a todos los trabajadores que participaron en la construcción del Hibernia.

Thanks I got New RU-vid Channel from this video to learn more knowledge and learn great documentaries.

This worth the watch that's crazy and dangerous 👍👍👍 condolences to the lost lives though

Safety training so thoroughly scrutinized that 1% of applicants are rejected!

1% failure rate they’ve really set the bar high.

Amazing technology

The Ocean Ranger capsized and sank due to an unsealed, broken port window in the control room, which flooded the area and caused malfunctions in valve controls, leading to the ballast tanks flooding. This resulted in severe listing and the rig's eventual sinking, while other less robust oil rigs in the area survived the storm without issue.

Pretty interesting. 👍

I'm not big on their iceberg strength tests. The one that sunk the Titanic was pretty effective.

Thank you.

It’s ok Superman will hold it up!

Those star-shaped corners are seemingly taken straight from the best forts with overlapping fields of fire, where each point gets defended by its immediate neighbors left & right. Maybe integrate firing slits into the star projections? Slap those suckers in the "China sea" or anywhere else, and nothing's gonna count against them except a tactical nuke. A fixed fort was built over some rocks in a Philippines bay port - took a Huge amount of "attention" to silence.

Love this

Nice to know Luke Skywalker got another gig after doing Star Wars...

This is a Massive oil rig,but a few months ago ive seen a documentary abaut the Russian oil rig Berkut,and i was very,very Impressed by the Sheer Size of that huge Rig. 200.000 thousand Tons... Uauuu that is a very big and Heavy "Office" to Work. PS: but the most Impressive oil rig Ever built ( its my personal opinion) is the Troll A. Its just a Monumental feat of Engininiering.

The pyramids lasted because all the ballast at the bottom ,less weight ad weather resistance at the top less easy to wreck

What an amazing structure

This rig is still going. Now there's another near it.

Dang mark hamill narrated this? That’s dope

Why didn't anyone get in the life boats that I assume were on the Ocean Ranger ? You showed 2 of them - I also assume they had enough for everyone onboard the rig.

If that bad boy had broke loose it would be like Godzilla

If mother nature really get angry what man made structure could stand against her there's nothing on this planet could out stand the power of the ocean if it really get angry

There had been human error on the Ocean Ranger. Failure to shut a porthole with a storm shutter. The sea broke into the electrical control room and from there on they had lost control of the ballast system.

Nearly as beautiful as the Eiffel Tower.

PANIC cannot be trained away ... EVERY executive responsible for this project must face this training and PASS or lose their JOB ... Each story about tragedy is blamed on the worker's inability to do this or that .... There is NOTHING indestructible and to try is just a "small spark" away from tragedy ...

The size of the old CRT screens.

Amazing!

THE Mark Hamill ?!

Just the tale of the Ocean Ranger you stated told me you don't do enough research for me to watch your channel.

Ya might wanna bring this up when people bitch about filling up their tank. Shit doesn't magically appear out of the end of a hose, down at Speedway...

Why don't they build small platforms around the rig with special weaponry that could move and target the ice berg before it gets to close. JUST shoot the iceberg to minimize the situation. BEFORE IT GETS TO THE ICE WALL.

Ocean ranger has a small port window smashed out causing salt water to enter the circuit boards that were below the water line causing the pumps to fail.. That caused it to list.

Realy I like this largest oil rig

oil is not from dinosaurs

Is that Luke Skywalker narrating this?

Sooner or later mother nature will swallow it up. You couldn't pay me enough to work on one of those rigs. The reason I'm making this statement is not to question the reliability of the rig, but simply because I get seasick.

It’s a production platform not a rig. Rigs are for exploration

Fun fact bout those wave rooms & ship models. Not only do you have to go from a scale of 40:1 you have to (idk the exact science) also go to 1/3 the speed… just a thought while you think bout models to scale :p watch the scale model of the oil rig bout 38min in, imagine if that was to scale same speed, those waves would be haulin ass lol Trust me bro… lmao

I wish Americans would join the 19th Century and learn Metric, trying to understand what their Imperial measurements mean is frustrating, how many Llamas are there in a Fahrenheit? How many Cables are there in a Foot? There seems to be 10 Chains in a Furlong but what is a Rod? Or a Rood? Or a Gill? I gave up watching this video after about 5 minutes, when 98% of the worlds population uses Metric and only America plus 2 other 3rd world countries uses Imperial I shouldn't have to deal with this BS. The other 2 countries are Liberia and Myanmar.

"...as the cement dries..." Concrete cures.

I moved from Northern WI (fkng cold) to PHX (umm, not cold) but am thinking of moving back home to take care of my parents. 30below is no joke. These guys willing to work in those conditions (with the humidity and freezing drenching) that are taking on these conditions, give em space. It’s anarctic terrible. Cold is deadly. High heat is deadly too, prolly faster than cold, but cold…hated it. It just hurts. Hi heat is deadly yea, but generally manageable at least for a day or two - cold? you’re gonna die. I guess death will occur ina day or two with heat, but cold with these guys? They’re pretty badass. My point, don’t underestimate their desire to make a buck.

They ruined all that land to make that oil platform sad

Some of these safety measures make me question if this is the right way

Most of the people who built this are now retired or dead.

"Now scientologists look for even more remote areas to destroy the earth"

So that is real life Noah Ark! Bravo to all the Human! We are amazing!

Just watched a rig sink in a doco...so this should be good ⛳

cool

Bulls don't have arms, wait..

So am I the only one who is amused that the Joker aka Luke Skywalker aka Mark "Go" HAMell is the narrator?

Icebergs move??😳

Bomb the bergs into smaller pieces?

Wow

Them growlers. We pull them in for to put in our drinks. It lasts all day. Sometimes when the ice explode in your glass it comes out of your glass. Lol you cant measure anything about this ice. Hard as steel and it dont melt like anything you can make.

When u think how much a million gallons an hour extracted empty space in the ground how much space is that ,x 24 hrs a day ,7 days a week x by a year ,suddenly being filled by seawater x the number of years its been operated. I have to wonder if it was anything to do with the great sunami whilst all the time Nicholas tesslas work was suppressed for near 100 yrs so the greed of oil could be allowed

Rip to the ocean ranger

I love anything that involves death risk. Was a special operator until about 7 years ago. My life is boring as f*** now.

i worked for a guy whose brother died on the ocean ranger . last name jacebson sorry about the spelling

So scary...I don't even want to know...😂

There is a gal in Connecticut that has swallowed more seaman than the Grand Banks has!

2.64 billion pounds of material. Assuming that's in metric tons.

If a berg gets anywhere close to the platform it will be evacuated...

Mark Hamill!

Hahaha. I just love humans are melting the ice so they build iceberg proof ocean derricks lol.

Narrator loves to use the "indestructible" term loosely and often...the last time something was touted as indestructible it ended up laying on the ocean floor not far from this rig.

There's an objective... better than the Titanic 😮

Will the rig move on, after extracting all the oil from the well it currently sits on ?

To think oil comes from dead plants and animals is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.

And yet we pay almost 2$ per litre for gasoline.

So then, tell me why is the price of gas so high, knowing the USA has a stake in this?

My 2 aunts were the Toolpushers on this Platform. My bro the HLO.... My uncle Radio officer...

Put military guns on the rig.Blow up the ice burgs.

Four billion dollars to build I love how they tell you that information I don't not tell you how much oil money that thing produces on a daily basis lol shhhh

80 foot waves? Yeah, right.

we produce the rebar for her and hebron

Narrated by Luke Skywalker himself.

I object to the comment in this video about the Piper Alpha crew not knowing how to fight fires aboard their rig. My dad died on Piper 'A' and he was a one of hundreds of men that went through the firefighting training and sea survival training, they were all well trained and prepared for emergencies. Piper 'A'' was not a fault of the crew or their inability to save the rig and themselves, it was a breakdown in protocols and processes that enabled the condensate pump to be operated by a piece of paper being filed in a separate place and a blank plate only being 'hand tight' instead of torqued to its operating torque. I resent the comment my dad was poorly-trained or unqualified for his work. None of those men stood a chance because this was not a fire but an explosion, which lead to widespread damage, and fires, some uncontrollable. I recall my mum going to inquests and sitting through the events being retold by those who worked on the rig (at the time of the disaster). To hear some half-witted prick talking bollocks about my dad and those he worked and died with and why they died is insulting. I was 17 when I heard my dad's rig had been involved in an accident, I can still feel the tears rolling down my cheek as I sat and watched tv footage of the fire hoping my dad would make it, he didn't. He and another 164 men died that day that fire could not be fought by anyone it was jets of gas it would be like trying to extinguish a jet fighters afterburner with a small handheld fire extinguisher and no heat sheild, you would be toasted alive and make zero difference to the fire. So the comments about being unskilled are mute and I can not help but feel they are an anti-british sleight. I'm deeply offended by te narration and producers and editors and even the script writer of this video, I do not know where they got their so-called 'report' from but it sure as hell was not the same report we had. I would not be surprised if their research was a few webpages and a wikipedia reading for an hour. Because it's nothing like the report my family was in attendance to hear in the inquest. This video gets a serious thumbs down from me a huge 'DISLIKE', for talking crap and telling lies about dead men, unable to defend themselves, one of them being my father.