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Here's a video walk-through of a drillship built in 2010 located in the Gulf of Mexico. It's long but pretty neat to see all the goings-on inside and on that thing.




Link to original video: https://youtu.be/UUc5GnXSvCM


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fascinating.
 
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Wheres Blofelds cabin and his Bathoscape, and wheres Tiffany Case...




 
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Crazy cool.

Alan, are you on a tanker?


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Crazy cool.

Alan, are you on a tanker?


Not exactly. A tanker barge would be more accurate, specifically an articulated tug and barge.

Here is a photo I took a few weeks back of us lightering a 1,000 foot long supertanker. My vessel is about 700' long. She dwarfed us.

We have a capacity of 350,000 barrels of crude.



The supertanker's house structure.


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Alan, how many HP is your tug, got any pics of it?
 
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Alan, how many HP is your tug, got any pics of it?


12,000 HP.

I'll see if there are any external pics of her that I can share, though I try to be careful what I post in that regard due to our company's policies relating to social media.

ETA:

Well here she is up on blocks in dry dock. Like a giant guppy out of water, I know.

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ATBs - are they intended to get into smaller ports where supertankers can't reach or dock?

I've done some work with terminals in Long Beach. Those tankers are amazing and YUGE.


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Wheres Blofelds cabin and his Bathoscape, and wheres Tiffany Case...


Mmmmm... Jill St. John. Big Grin
 
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ATBs - are they intended to get into smaller ports where supertankers can't reach or dock?



That is the idea behind "lightering operations," but there are other reasons for building an ATB rather than an equivalent sized "ship" than for simply lightering. Ships can lighter other ships for instance, but ATBs are generally more cost effective and allow a company certain exceptions when crewing or classifying a vessel. In essence, they're cheaper.

More and more shipping companies seem to be going this route in fact, at least for primarily coastwise vessels.


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Interesting stuff Alan. In your company or
industry average, what is the ratio of tugs to barges? Im assuming more barges than tugs for max efficiency.
 
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GREAT STUFF!!! I just wish the vid wouldn't have had that "fish eye" effect...I think it made me a little nauseous. Seriously...



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I'll see if there are any external pics of her that I can share....


Check http://www.marinetraffic.com/.

They have a database of vessels with pictures that are open source.





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I'll see if there are any external pics of her that I can share....


Check http://www.marinetraffic.com/.

They have a database of vessels with pictures that are open source.


Yes, but I am disinclined to share online who my employer is.

By the way, Marine Traffic is a great resource for anyone who has an interest in the world of shipping.

Lot of ships out there...



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