How Do Giant Oil Rigs Actually Work? | Engineering Giants

How Do Giant Oil Rigs Actually Work? | Engineering Giants | Progress

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Жыл бұрын

The Lima Platform is the last remaining offshore oil rig in one of Britain's most productive gas fields. It spend 40 years supplying oil for 5 million homes. Now its engineering team works on the hardest project yet... Its time for it to be demolished.
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@docoftheday Жыл бұрын

The Lima Platform may be coming to the end of its lifespan, but it's clear that the legacy of these offshore oil rigs will live on. It's amazing to think about the impact that these structures have had on the world, and the incredible feats of engineering that make them possible.

@markrussell4282 Жыл бұрын

Amazing to watch however I've worked in the SNS for 20 years and none of the platforms are what you'd call giant. They're all small and easily lifted but most heavy lift barges. The platforms in the central north or northern North sea are giants in comparison. Take a look at the Troll platform for example. The challenge I think for SNS is the age of the platforms. Some dating from the late 1960's. No thought how they would remove them and many built piecemeal in situ. Compared to some Lima actually looked to be in pretty decent condition.

@michaeltaylor2973 Ай бұрын

I worked on a drilling rig for 6years,the deepest we drilled was 7500feet. I was a chain hand roughness, technical term operational engineer in se NEW MEXICO AROUND ROSWELL, ARTESIA, HOBBS, JAL. I HAD A SPINNING CHAIN BRAKE AND DANCE CROSS MY BODY. I THANK THE ONLY TRUE GOD THAT I'M STILL ALIVE TODAY. MY FEET GOT TOO COLD, NOW I HAVE NERVE DAMAGE TO MY LEFT ARCH FOOT TODAY. WHEN I THINK OF IT, I HAVE A MELTDOWN THAT COULD HAVE DIED THAT DAY. IT WAS A DEATH TRAP WOW😢

@pattykitchens4042 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this video of how to move the platform

@cuba3433 Жыл бұрын

Me gustó muchísimo este video desde su comienzo hasta el final !. 👍 I love yuo UK 🇬🇧 . (Por lo inteligentes y educativos que ustedes son !.)

@whirledpeas3477 Жыл бұрын

Neither my father or uncle worked with the Northsea Tigers 🐅 🤔

@WishInvrborn 3 ай бұрын

Tough hombres !!!

@DonLuc23 Жыл бұрын

What part did the annoying music play?

@johnrevelation37 3 ай бұрын

I found the music to be enjoyable and enhanced the storytelling.

@aggabus 27 күн бұрын

21:45 100, 000 ,000,000

@Kiyoone Жыл бұрын

what? Building is always harder than tearing it down...

@billynomates920 Жыл бұрын

i think they are over egging the pudding just a bit

@UriahGiles Жыл бұрын

Your title is a misleading lie. Furthermore, you have just reposted a video that has already been uploaded by another channel. I don't know how the rights to media work on KZfaq but I do know that there has been a huge spike in the number of pirated video being uploaded. I personally don't agree with this practice, especially because for one thing the quality is NEVER as good as the original. I hope KZfaq does something to put a stop to this problem.

@cementer7665 Жыл бұрын

I had a feeling that I had seen this before.

@Ben-ks5bm Жыл бұрын

Probably a daft Muslim or Indian

@user-bd3zy6wo7l 3 ай бұрын

@@cementer7665 u saying he's a THIEF

@Dinco422 Жыл бұрын

Genuine question... Why not use presurized water to cut things ? You have water there... You can cut diamonds with pressured water... so why not use it ??

@Vatsyayana87 Жыл бұрын

Good question, i havent watched it yet but i assume you are talking about a hand held cutter and so id think thats where the weakness lays, the human. Ive never seen a human use a proper water cutter and i wonder if the thrust from those things are simply too much for us to use safely.

@charleschristianson2730 6 ай бұрын

They did....

@noahf5475 2 ай бұрын

Generally, fluids such as water and even air can have such immense torque due to the compression factor that they could easily break humans wrists. To create a handheld water cutting machine that would be able to both cut high rated steel like that, as well as have it be braced as to not harm the user, would be e very substantial feat on its own. At the moment, diamond cutters do the trick for what they need them to do, so they don’t change it. Hope that answers the question, despite me being a bit late to the party!

@aggabus 27 күн бұрын

60b ÷ 100 b Lost 40 b

@leemacdonald6533 3 күн бұрын

Its tiny 😂

@lhsiv Жыл бұрын

Why all the over exaggerated music, just explain stuff to us like we are all adults. There are hundreds of KZfaq documentary channels that prove that in this platform, we do not want history channel.

@newone2931 4 ай бұрын

Cos that shit has brought destruction to the whole world.

@jasonthompson4636 3 ай бұрын

What a odd criticism

@ALabInSaintDenis Ай бұрын

Why would you tell a channel how to make their own videos? You said there are hundreds of other channels... That gives you plenty of options. Please don't speak for everybody because that would include me.

@lhsiv Ай бұрын

@@ALabInSaintDenis glad they found their audience

@UQRXD Жыл бұрын

Pretty damn crappy.

@lsrecords2473 3 ай бұрын

Bad soundtrack

@user-bd3zy6wo7l 3 ай бұрын

U can't make betterusiv wanker

@cementer7665 Жыл бұрын

Remember this FACT: If it weren't for AMERICAN innovation, technology, construction, along with the drilling, extraction, and production processes involved in offshore oil and gas, Great Britain would still be burning peat and coal to keep warm, and to boil its tea. It was also American workers who made the whole operation work, providing both the grunt labor, AND the supervision ONSHORE, as well as OFFSHORE to keep things going. I know, I worked out of both Great Yarmouth and Aberdeen from mid 1988 through mid 1992. The British have a bad habit of taking credit for things that were either invented by Americans, OR, if invented by the British, vastly improved upon by Americans.

@xtr3m3fLx 5 ай бұрын

You also won every war you've been in singlehandedly. Utter twa...