I wasn't even aware we actually use floating platforms. All these years I was picturing these massive kilometers long structures that must be built to connect to the ocean floor and hold these rigs... Now I feel stupid. But also smarter. Which feels weird.

Every employee at BP watches this video before being fully certified. Congratulations, you are now qualified to work for BP.

The sheer scale of these operations is mind boggling

The engineering behind this is insane.

As a non technical person I used to wonder how rigs assembled and worked ….. you have explained marvellously in simple terms 👍

This is insanely mind blowing, the amount of works it takes.

I worked for over 40 yrs in manufacturing machining parts for the oil industry, great video!

This channel is fantastic. It's like the 'How it's made' of KZfaq. Hope it gets the recognition it deserves.

Humans are insanely creative. I have never imagined this type of construction. In order to create this people spent millions of years of knowledge and expreience.

RIP Caz and the rest of the crew

Thank you for explanation. I could have never imagined how complicated is underwater oil extraction and its transportation to the land.

the engineering and design that goes into these things is amazing

I really like the detail you get from technical animations such as this. A massive help to understanding how technology works.

Very interesting! I have always wanted to understand exactly how oil rigs work. Thank you for this detailed info! 👍🏾

I learned about oil rigs many years ago but the books never gave much information about how the oil makes it to shore. It's very interesting to learn about all of the established underwater pipelines!

Anyone watching this after playing Still Wakes the Deep?

Great video mate, I was always interested how oil rigs works. Thank you again, great explanation.

Whoever imagined such a structure with such sheer scale of engineering and whoever built it deserve more praise and recognition than physicists get!

Still wakes the deep brings me here

Visually pleasing and clearly narrated explanations - perfect combination! Thank you so much for creating and sharing!!

Still wakes the deep bring me here😂

What a video! So clear and easy to understand it. Well done!

This video has made me realise just how well made and realistic the new game “Still wakes the deep” is !

Fantastic video, great work and thank you for the lesson.

What blowed my mind wasnt that the oil rig was floating, but the whole network of subsea pipelines, you showed. I can't imagine how it is in the rest of the world

I love how simple and clear the explanations are! well done👍🏾 and by the way, these show how important oil/ gas as irreplacable natural resources, but remember that one day fresh water will be the ‘oil’ 😉

Finally a clear video on how this is done. Thank you!

Really informative about a curious subject I knew nothing about. Thank you!👍🏻

This was an awesome video, I’ve recently started work on a oil refinery plant and the scale of operations blew my mind my father has worked on rigs and plants all his life and always told me stories I find it fascinating, I love watching the explanation videos like these they are great! Your content is also awesome and I’ll be watching most😂great stuff!

WOW! That was quite interesting. I've often wondered how that works, but never bothered to find-out. This was EXCELLENT. It gave me just enough information to now know a little something about it (actually, A LOT). Thank you

Lol i clicked on this video cuz i wanted to find out what rigs look like underwater so i could build one in minecraft and i ended up watching the whole video

Am I the only one watching this because you watched Deep Water horizon? Anyone?

Nicely done. Simple, straightforward explanations for the non engineering types 😊.

*Wow the subsea pipelines are so cool. The engineers behind this are brilliant and we can thank them for all of the amazing things that we have! This was an awesome video!!! Very much appreciated.*

Subsea infrastructure in itself is mindblowing, but being able to drill, then send a pump down into that hole while there are crashing waves is crazy

Thanks for this man, we all know oil rigs is big and cool enough but not many know how it actually works

Omg where has this channels been the whole time?! This is super interesting and amazingly well done. Congrats!!

This is the best explanation video I have found in 30 min of looking, clear and to the point, great !

Marvelous video, I watched it just for the presentation about oil I need to do for tomorrow, but I got to know so much more interesting information. I was always fascinated by huge engineering projects and oil platforms are one of my favourite things to look at.

Nitpicking here: the pipe rams don't control the pressure. They simply cut the flow by crushing the pipe. Their effect is very permanent. Annulars can seal up the well and then unseal it later. The blind shear ram is there to allow the rig to move away from a bad situation. The drill string connects the rig to the well, and if there is need to move the rig away for any reason (a sudden hurricane changes direction and threatens the rig, or war breaks out and the rig is about to be invaded or attacked, or if the rig can't help but move away-if the dynamic positioning system fails, for example, the rig will start to drift off position and the drill string may break-leading to a spill-or the rig may sink as a consequence), the blind shear will sever that connection and the rig will be free. The Shear rams will only be operated after the rams seal the pipe below them, so as to avoid a bad spill. The order that they are used is: Annular-to close the flow/control pressure; Rams-to permanently close the flow if the annulars aren't enough; Shear Rams-to cut the pipe altogether if the whole thing goes tits up.

Holy shit. Never knew anything about the whole Offshore Oilrig operation stuff. I understood everything 100%! 10 outta 10!

This channel is criminally under-subscribed. Outstanding work, my man.

Thank u very much, I now find my self on a semi-sub. Good info, no way I would have known this if I didn't watch this video

very clean and understandable easy explanation on how it works! kudos great job and animation!

It blows my mind how a rig sitting so high can drill in such a specific spot. Id imagine the shear forces on the drill/casing would be insanely high

Thank you for explaining this process so well. I was curious and watched several videos that didn’t explained anything but yours is excellent!

Extremely helpful video about oil platforms and deep sea oil extraction. Thanks so much and God bless you!!

The animation is great 👍 but I think it should have made clear how the riser made it easy to collect the rock cuttings and pressured water from the wellbore back to the platform while drilling through rock formations.

Thank you for producing this video. It was one of the most informative 5 min video on the subject

Your animation is very amazing , such a great work 👏

Fantastic video! Clear concise and right to the point and very educational, thank you!

Mindblown by how good this video is. Literally made me say “that’s so cool” out loud lmao

Finally found the answer to my question while smoking this joint, thank you 🙏🏽

Its actually amazing we dont have more oil spill disasters.

one of the most impressive pieces of engineering to date especially because of the scale. fascinating

Thank you because I had no idea how oil rigs worked and how they stayed stable, etc.

Please Make a video on Kolkata's Underwater metro tunnel which is made under the Ganga river ❤️

This reminds me of countering oil rig on rust

It would be great to see a part 2 to this where you go into the level of detail you did on BOP but with the process plant on the Rig too.

That's a genius invention, for sure. Oil = money and where there's money to be made, there are genius inventions to go after it. I'm not knocking the oil industry as this applies to just about everything. I actually did know how these offshore rigs stayed in place but I didn't know about the subsea piplelines used to bring the oil to shore. I learn something new every day. Thanks for the video.

You neglected to mention the Marine Riser, which encloses the drill string between the sea bed and the surface. This necessary to allow pressurizing the well and circulating drilling mud. Also, semi-submersible rigs can use thrusters to maintain position without being anchored.

That explosion at 3:46 was beautifully animated

I just watched DEEPWATER HORIZON, such a good movie! Had to come here and see how it works. Great video thank you!

Kudos to whoever discovered this great inventory ❤

Thank you for explaining how Oilrigs work, i never figured out how they extracted the oil from underwater

I’d be interested to see how all the underwater stuff works… how it’s all installed and removed and how the underwater pipeline is built.

The' rig' is the part of the platform that is used to drill new wells, and do maintenance (worker) on existing wells. There are oil rigs which are purely for exploration and testing, semisubs, jackups etc. The 'platform' is the structure on which it sits, that includes the facilities for handling the oil and gas that comes out of the wells, separating gas from oil, exporting the gas, which may need gas compression (that part that exploded on Piper alpha) to stuff it down pipes with enough pressure that lit doesn't condense as fast moving 'slugs' and destroy the pipeline, to re-inject gas to maintain reservoir pressure and to inject seawater for same reason. Also to export oil. And huge turbines to power the whole lot, run on gas from wells. Platforms may be fixed, floating , tension leg etc. Also there are 'subsea' facilities with wells and pipes to surface platforms to handle the oil/gas, or to converted tankers. That was 40 years ago, probably changed a bit.

Nice short clear explanation.. wish all education was made this simple.

Just finished reading Paul E Cooley's The Black and am here to learn more

Great video! To the point no babbling introduction

even after watching the video, I did not fully understand this. Some incredibly smart people design these things.

Bardzo interesujące. Znakomicie zrobiona animacja. Very interesting. Excellently done animation.

Great video Luscious. I'm sure your subscriptions will climb over time.

Thank you for such an excellent presentation with so much information in one Video. Are there adequate words enough to give due praise and respect to the Engineers who met the many very difficult challenges of designing the various deep water Oil Drilling Platforms. The technology must have evolved over many years of trial and error to make it all work as needed.

Excellent Wish it was longer

The maths and physics required for these must be insane

this is really amazing to demonstrate the how a offshore platform works, realy fantastic

I got curious today. And this video left me satiated

I should be sleeping but this is what goes through my head when I'm trying to sleep.

That pipeline map at the end is beyond incredible!!! The scary part is their all in areas where commercial fishermen make their living. One spill can ruin miles of good fishing areas.

I'm watching Deep Water Horizon, and it's got me glued. Smh

The ingenuity is truly remarkable.

Yes this is my workplace and this is where I am working now

Thanks for explaining this to me, now I can go explain this to everyone and look smart.

This is engineering and technology at its finest… WOW. 😮

I’m amazed, and it’s mind-blowing! Well presented and all! Thank you!

AN OUTSTANDING JOB. Well presented and covered all the bases. Thank you.

This explanation is truly exceptional.

Thanks for sharing this animation about offshore rig. your efforts are countless. keep it up to sharing this amazing information among the people around the world. we are oilfield lover and we are one community. Again thanks for sharing.

Human ingenuity is amazing

I have always thought about how these were made in sea. Amazing.

Very informative. Thanks!❤

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CONGRATULATION! You did a very good and clear explanation!!I'm Italian and I don't speak English good but the animations are enough to understand well

Incredible video. Thank you !

I feel like being the next international pop star would be an easier feat than deciding to start your own oil rig company.

Nice, now I can build this in modded minecraft and extract unreasonable amounts of oil that I'm just gonna use for myself

Wow. Thanks to social media KZfaq technology for giving us the access to knowledge how things like this works. Great video. JMO

Who installed sea pipelines? I have thalassophobia i can't imagine going into oil rig but the builders who installed the pipelines or the structure below must go down to the bottom of the sea right? I even avoid the sea shore, but they dive very deep. Very Big Big Big Respect to all the peoples who were involved in building the rigs and everyone working at the rigs.

Mind boggling technology that .. Thank u so much .. Couldn’t have asked for a better explanation with animation .. Lots of effort in preparing this video .. Highly appreciated 👏👏