Secrets Of The Appomattox Oil Platform | Richard Hammond's Big 

Atlantis

@@Lev15157 are you saying it’s going to sink

@@Crayon255 BP has a platform called Atlantis.

Amazing

Hi do you have to pay for the helicopter to take you back to shore.

@@lindaking4780 no the company that owns the platform pays for the helicopter ride. In the this case it’s shell oil.

Dose that apply to all off shore oil rigs do you know.

@@lindaking4780 yes that applies to all oil rigs and platforms. I work for a third-party company which means I fly out to all different kinds of platforms and oil rigs as well as boats. It cost these companies thousands of dollars for a one-way flight there’s no way the workers would be able to pay for that

How about Aberdeen do you know and thank you for your reply’s

Look for videos of _"Justin Wilson"_ Cajun Chef and _"Stalecracker Official"_ Cajun Cooking.

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I work on a drilling ship in the Gulf and being able to understand a Cajun accent is definitely a requirement.

it definitely will.

Yep. If the internals of that choke were to completely fail, that whole facility would have a major problem. That platform would be shut-in and the operators would have a shit load of explaining to do that’s why SCADA chokes (Supervisory Control And Data Aquisition) reign supreme. Basically constant monitoring

It was actually seven pertilians per hour on the cargo ship

Not true.

@@fFiuW REaAllLLY?

It's only a clip of the a TV episode

@@apexinstinct i cant find the whole episode T_T 😅 (5mins later) eureka! found it! thnks for lettin me know that its just a clip of it ^^v

@@insane_in_da_membrane_ No problem mate 😂👍🏻

@@apexinstinct What's it called?

@@randomguy8476 I don't know sorry but these clips are taken from the series on quest.

It's not that bad, I was on appomattox from Feb 2019 to October 2020. You typically would work 14/14 or 21/21.

Where do you usually fly from?

@@seanwatts8342 Sumburgh or Aberdeen.

@@cmomofilm I'm a little farther west... New Orleans, Louisiana but you might infer by my name my dad's family immigrated from Aberdeen generations ago.

It’s Deepwater Horizon and yeah i was thinking the same thing

Efficient companies know approximately how long until something will break, which part is likely to break, and which parts/tools you will likely want to get before heading to the site. Humanity has been gathering oil longer than the automobile has existed, I hope this oil company has everything down to a basic routine. McDonald's knows everything about every machine they use, down to the air conditioning units. For $400,000/hr, the oil company better know how to get it quickly repaired lol

Those oils rigs have not been making money for years. These were built when oil was over $100 a barrel. It has not been anywhere near that for years.

There making money not as much though, you have to think the amount of money time and equipment just to drill it, then frack cement and then flow it though this platform we’re talking billions of dollars in debt before they even start producing

i dont even think they needed it here. kinda uncle ruckus like

Heckler and Koch

Me, who isn't a native English speaker.

@@MrMaple-iq1sh lol good point, makes sense. Yeah their accent can be really thick, but I was surprised a British person with an accent would have trouble understanding him when they have such thick accents in their own country like Welsh or the Scottish Highlands.

@@dustin628 naa english people can understand him fine. we love doing a hick accent to mock you fools out there.

@@skrrtle360 lol ok as you watch all these American youtubers 🤣

He literally has a helicopter license and owns his own helicopter, not sure if he has more than one or not, though.

Because they have Richard Hammond slowly repairing the rigs 😉😆

Ask Joe

Austin Smith :Joe who?

@@willfo8358 Joe Mama

@@willfo8358 Joe Biden

A lot

Doesn't cost them fuck all they are taking from the planet turning it in to profit we actually loose out as price fluctuates due to these kind of things the company only looses profits . Costing 0 the don't pay the planet for oil or minerals or oars they take nothing is there's in reality nothing is ours we will all turn back to dust of wich we came n the proces start again the world is doomed by greed

400k an hour is chump change for a company like Shell. It's all relative.

Okay

When one is used to hearing words pronounced one way, the brain can have issues hearing the same word said differently from what it is used to.

shell made 180billion in revenue last year, i doubt spending an extra 10 minutes showing richard the parts they use hit them that hard

He kinda made it sound very dramatic but this platform doesn't have just 1 wellhead connected. It could have 12, 24, even more potentially.. each with their own choke valve. The $400,000 an hour is simple maths; $60 a barrel, 160,000 barrels a day, divided by 24. So it's $400,000 if all the wellheads went down.

I have another question - why the hell is that valve so clean inside? Isn't it supposed to choke oil flow?

Why would they be clean shaven?

@@alhassanetoure3088 they're on an oil platform, one that presumably produces hydrocarbons. I've worked in land facilities that do the same thing and every single one required its workers to be clean shaven so they can produce a seal with a face mask in the event of emergency.

@@levonschaftin3676 they don’t have big beards, face mask will fit right over

"Real men" ??? ....not my opinion of what a "real man" is but luckily we are each entitled to our own!!

Where does the electricity come from that you charge that car with?

Maybe women don't want to work there???

@@Bendigo1 wow, rich from you to speak for all women here. maybe they don't get to work their because they are discriminated against. joking btw

This was built around 2016. It took us maybe 2.5- 3 years to build it. these rigs are engineered and planned for years prior to us receiving the first drawings and starting the build for these platforms. They're a real pain in the ass to build too. It's super cool to see when all the pieces start coming together to build each of the modules though. It's like a very, VERY big puzzle

Speak for yourself when you say “we”. I’ll never own a carbon monoxide polluting machine.

@@HollerMeshocks hope you don't have any electric items like the phone or computer you used to type this

Strike a balance, mate.

Try and stop them ig

@@HollerMeshocks well any car which is newer than 1980, does not pollute carbon monoxide, as the cataylst converts it to carbon dioxide. Whereas carbon monoxide is toxic, if I remember correctly it binds to the oxygen receptors in the red blood cells, carbon dioxide is non toxic, but does contribute to the green house effect