Ever wonder what it’s like inside a modern ultra-deepwater drillship?
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.
~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country
Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan
"Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle
March 22, 2017, 09:51 AM
ScorpionBoy
fascinating.
March 22, 2017, 10:18 AM
HRK
Wheres Blofelds cabin and his Bathoscape, and wheres Tiffany Case...
March 22, 2017, 12:32 PM
Russ59
Crazy cool.
Alan, are you on a tanker?
P229
March 22, 2017, 02:05 PM
Balzé Halzé
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Originally posted by Russ59: 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.
~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country
Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan
"Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle
March 22, 2017, 02:30 PM
Dbltap
Alan, how many HP is your tug, got any pics of it?
March 22, 2017, 03:06 PM
Balzé Halzé
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Originally posted by Dbltap: 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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~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country
Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan
"Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle
March 22, 2017, 03:20 PM
Russ59
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.
P229
March 22, 2017, 03:22 PM
Lunasee
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Originally posted by HRK: Wheres Blofelds cabin and his Bathoscape, and wheres Tiffany Case...
Mmmmm... Jill St. John.
March 22, 2017, 03:33 PM
Balzé Halzé
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Originally posted by Russ59: 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.
~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country
Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan
"Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle
March 22, 2017, 03:49 PM
Dbltap
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.
March 22, 2017, 03:57 PM
erj_pilot
GREAT STUFF!!! I just wish the vid wouldn't have had that "fish eye" effect...I think it made me a little nauseous. Seriously...
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
March 22, 2017, 04:00 PM
Sig2340
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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
I'll see if there are any external pics of her that I can share....
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