This Gigantic Floating Oil Platform Is Steam Powered | Richard Hammond's Big 

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Richard "Scandinavian Flick" Hammond

Come on..... All these guys have Uni degrees......They are not risk takers.

@Nishawn Birak sarcasm....

@Nishawn Birak you know he isn't right?

@Nishawn Birak He's not on Top Gear though....

@Nishawn Birak mohaha!

@Nishawn Birak No he's not 🙄

Neat

pretty cool. usually see those on furnace stacks/flares.

Saw that but had no idea why they had that shape and its purpose. Awesome, thanks!

similar idea as burj khalifa

Hammond has talked about them on one of his engineering programmes before!

What about the project manager that Hammond was talking to?

@@guyincognito3530 and thats a dutch person so he'll be about 8 feet

@@JaapvandenBerg He's just a toddler.

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There's also internal-combustion power generation, not super common but notable, as well as gas turbines. This case is actually a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) cogeneration system, I'd be interested in how much power comes from the gas turbines versus the steam heat recovery system - I'd make a wild guess that at least 2/3 is from the gas turbine directly.

There are RTGS also

And yet Wind Turbines and Dams are still built around the principle of spinning a bit of copper. Pretty much 90% of electricity being generated today is based on this principle.

@@quillmaurer6563 everyone forgets tidal energy however inefficient it may currently be

In another sense... everything is solar powered. Wind is generated by rising air heated by the sun. Plants use photosynthesis to store energy which after millions of years turns to oil, gas and coal. Everything can be traced back to the sun.

This is far better than those top comments talking about hammonds height which is major yawn.

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Me 2

Peter Treur m2 hahaha

Oil : not a single word the Dutch : G E K O L O N I S E E R D

@poposmoko You mean Dutch engineers

Congrats on being the 6,657,676th person to say that

notGoldy 1403 thanks for counting mate

Or gigantic

Well it's not going to be called Richard hammond slightly larger than average is it?

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It took me a few seconds to get it

on the shell youtube channel they said it took nearly a million man hours of design and assembly

they finished filming a long time ago, they are waiting for the editors and amazon to finish.

The whole episode is finished now, edited and all they are just waiting for Amazon to release it now

christmas is nothing compared to the anniversary of the best comeback ever. 4-0. sorry mate.

@@dylanjohnstone5119 Congratulations and don't forget the 3:0 before that and also thank Jordi Alba and Rakitic for winning you the game.

Pretty sure that was the whole idea behind the name.

@@evandavis5223 yep,and it worked. every top comment is talking about it and repeating the same joke.

His bank account is though. He still wins.

also the company is dutch

NEDERLAND HOOLIGANS

The platform was designed in Houston, TX mostly by Americans.

rms3 But dutch company

@@thimo476 actually, Shell is an US subsidiary of Royal Dutch primarily staffed by Americans.

Ermm Nah mate. I'd rather just Google it :-P

@@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM Me: Okay Google, "Who is Richard Hammond's name".

I'd be willing to bet it's down to large capital costs. I doubt very much that they're just plugging unrefined gasses into their turbines, which means they'd have to refine it on-site.

@BirdyLegs Yea, up-front cost is my guess as well. Sure, it costs some money up front, but not having to order thousands of cubic meters of diesel fuel out to sea must offset that quickly. See it happen where I work - allthough on a smaller scale: Those with the economics degree seem terribly afraid of investing money and are willing to accept unneccesary high operational costs just to keep that up-front price tag down.

Petroleum engineering student here, the main reason I know of that it isn’t common to use your own products for power is cost. It takes a lot of energy, and a lot of equipment to get raw hydrocarbons to the point that it can be burnt in a finely tuned engine. Not to mention that natural gas is extremely volatile/dangerous to store and is very difficult to store in large quantities, especially in an environment like an offshore rig. Also, while not super common for offshore rigs, the price of natural gas can get high enough that it is worth selling the natural gas from off shore rigs, so having it be required to power the rig isn’t ideal. That does not necessarily apply to this particular rig because it is an deep-water, mostly exploratory (as opposed to production) rig as I understand it.

also alot easier to pass the idea with a low upfront cost. it just sounds better and cheaper. same idea as saying 9.99 instead of 10

Will Russell That’s not entirely accurate. I work on the turbine generators, turbine compressors and turbine water injection pumps on platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. It is very common to use natural gas to power the rig. It’s free energy. Having natural gas on a rig is just part of the job. Precautions are taken to prevent any spark, all the way down to intrinsically safe flashlights. Don’t worry. The smoking area is limited to a specific deck on the crew quarters. The deck for grilling the steaks is also safely away. I didn’t see a drilling rig on that platform so I’d say it’s a production platform just churning out millions of barrels of oil and million of cubic feet of gas.

18.75% royalty rate isn't exactly free....

more like DIY power

And yet not fare enough not to need it. :)

Believe it's to avoid vorticies forming during hurricane force winds. Helps interrupt and disrupt the wind, stopping it from vibrating and shaking.

Yes I have OCD but not everything symmetrical. It's made to accommodate efficiency. No point having a 10 meter wide platform with nothing on it.

Why _would_ it be symmetrical!?

other than Juna's points, it might be weight distribution. Lets just believe the center of mass is symmetrical to us OCD dudes

theres a massive bridge if you look close enough. its covering part of the crossbeams

No, it's for a zombie apocalypse

They have bunkers.

If you read world war Z, the novel. You know it's not safe out there in the ocean.

@@despairgaming6669 It's a Fallout reference, people.

@@despairgaming6669 why not?

And they tell us that we have limited oil when they build monsters like this.

thats how most of the global electricity is generated, by burning coal or oil and and with that heating steam. the only difference here is that they use a jet engine to heat the steam

Yes, it's a dual system, very efficient, they extract the last drop of energy from that gas. (Also, that steam must be useful for a lot of other stuff there.)

It's a combined cycle gas generation plant. Nothing new on land, but it is the first time it is used on an offshore installation, as normally they have gas turbines only.

Production Platform.

Built on land. Then they float it out to final location. It was dropped in water in Texas and final location is off southeast coast of Louisiana.

The wells have been drilled by a drilling ship and have subsea xmas trees (set of valves on top of the wells). The oil from the wells is transferred to the platform by mean of flexible pipelines called risers. There is no drilling on that particular platform

@@simonescelsa great comment! Thanks for educating me on the matter :)

It's a floating facility kept at a specific spot with subsea mooring lines. It is use for deep waters

Some of them are built into the ground! Only closer to the coast though. Everything deep water like this is floating

Fertilizer, plastic and a billion other uses like pharmaceuticals means it won't be irrelevant, ever.

@@NorHeadHunter well what makes you think that the world won't run out of oil? in case you didn't know there's only 30- 40 years left tops

I don't recall the amount of life this platform was designed for (maybe 40 years?), but most platforms aren't designed for life past a couple decades. I have friends who designed a lot of the control systems for this platform.

@@NightshiftCustom Peak oil is a myth, current proven reserves might run out in 30-40 years, but the thing is that we don't know how much oil is out there because the oil we currently know about has to run out before it becomes economically viable to look for more. Same with most minerals.

I'm waiting to quiet to pop up at the video!

Hurricane in a Warwickshire county English accent.

Most large diesel powered ships (for example) have waste heat recovery Boilers.

you know what "for the most part" means right?

To be fair he did mean the generator package. I used to design platforms.

Imma go with hand cranks.

But they are only turned on in intervals, they are not running continously.

Yeah, the usual conversion is around 5000 watts/home.

Gotta get in the mini get all the scientist and crate loot back home first.

Some are, either by wire tethers in deep water or jack up legs in shallow water. This is a production platform not a Drilling Rig.

@@MegaBoilermaker It's a tension leg platform which means it is anchored to the ocean floor. Every deep water platform I've been on a TLP, but a lot of them also drill. The big empty space in the center of the platform is where the drilling package used to be.

They also have cables that at each corner that are anchored to the ocean floor. They are constantly automatically paying out and taking in to adjust the position. The also adjust the buoyancy to keep just the right amount of tension on those tendons.

It's a common misconception, however some shallow offshore rigs will be constructed from the base of the sea as well. Many rigs however are floating and anchored

@Omer Ahmed Watch in fullscreen the bitrate is trash on the distant shots.