How to Deconstruct a 27,000 Tonne Giant

How to Deconstruct a 27,000 Tonne Giant - Brent Alpha

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3 жыл бұрын

Our new film reveals each challenging stage of dismantling Shell’s #Brent Alpha oil and gas platform, one of four Brent Field oil and gas rigs #Shell is decommissioning.
Working against the elements in this remote part of the North Sea, a crack team test ingenious engineering solutions specifically designed to remove the rig for recycling. Dangling just five metres above the waves, rope access technicians use blowtorches to slice through Alpha’s legs to free its 17,000-tonne platform.
To do the heavy lifting, Shell call’s in the world’s largest construction vessel, #PioneeringSpirit, and lifts the platform with a huge set of pincers. Next the team must slice through Alpha’s steel legs and support structure - its giant upper jacket - 85 metres under water with the world’s largest diamond cutter. Lifting the giant jacket requires the largest crane vessel on the planet, the #Sleipnir, which must undertake the heaviest single jacket lift in history.
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@gordonrobertson2448 5 ай бұрын

I started my career at Methil in 1974 right out of high school and worked on the construction of the Brent Alpha. Much has changed for both me and the Alpha. I too am retired but I am not quite ready to be recycled yet. Very nostalgic. Good bye old friend.

@juliette13101 3 жыл бұрын

I can’t believe I just bingewatched videos about oil platforms but honestly this is so cool! 😂 so interesting and the amount of coordination and innovation is just awesome

@XZR5killz 2 жыл бұрын

You have some nice content on your channel.

@ayshaahmed248 2 жыл бұрын

SAMEEEE 😭😭😭

@LuqmanKajee 2 жыл бұрын

hahahha I thought I was the only person doing that

@emgee44 Жыл бұрын

Ditto

@amazingtimes8692 3 жыл бұрын

Tysm! I couldn't figure it out myself, this tutorial is very helpful.

@hhand04 3 жыл бұрын

😂💀💀

@trevorzzealley2670 2 жыл бұрын

I`m impressed at the tech advances made since the original days. For me it was seeing the hull designs that can ride out the swell conditions. In the past the crane hooks used to pendulum . Those moving hooks and slings caused to many injuries . But now I can watch as the swell flows beneath the work deck .

@Ugochinyerecyrine 3 жыл бұрын

When people, process and technology meets we achieve more. Am proud of shell

@KieranHD 3 жыл бұрын

It's quite something to think about how many people are involved and the sheer scale of the technology to achieve something like this.

@raysshine3504 3 жыл бұрын

The 80 dislikes are from chevron and British petroleum employees.

@raysshine3504 3 жыл бұрын

@Zain Alvaro Dude I dont have insta

@ashishaggarwal8640 2 жыл бұрын

impressive video! Great to see how Shell optimized on offshore manhours by innovating on topsides cutting!! A good learning for anyone interested in decom!!

@libenasukro 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic engineering and coordination and ingenuity. Amazing videos.

@SirJerro Жыл бұрын

Man i could watch this all day

@armijinyawa 3 жыл бұрын

Well done Team Shell👍👍

@za7v9ier 3 жыл бұрын

Shell always make good films

@kanikamehra8200 3 жыл бұрын

WOW ... awestruck!

@davidloader424 6 ай бұрын

Did view and intended to show Brent Decom at OES film evening. A Very good film as this one but had to gauge audience concentration 80min limit and overall content and who sponsored us . A lot of material in public domain now . Which l am pleased about. I learn a lot from this films having worked in T &I 6y and Offshore arena for many years . Previously relied on Client Rep and had to obtaining approvals. Labour intensive now media manager in each company. I did in put some videos from Repsol Work valuable to me Chipirón Subsea , Prestige Wreck Oil Recovery two part. At SASP was in team Decom of Esso Odin in the team

@TheRealMahalo27 3 жыл бұрын

Good job Shell. 👍🏻

@marysandra6753 2 жыл бұрын

Very educative

@Julioc_dias 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@rickghracing8839 3 жыл бұрын

Im very proud of the dutch people, almost every of these water involving projects has dutch brains behind it (the bore platform removals, dubai manmade islands, airport manmade islands, etc etc)

@balachdr5 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic feat

@ioanbota9397 3 жыл бұрын

I love this

@azarmohammed6759 3 жыл бұрын

Really amazing

@marcusfuentes8641 Жыл бұрын

Let it grow

@exactingbirdy2601 Жыл бұрын

I call dibs on the steel

@johnminshell6532 2 жыл бұрын

Can’t wait to see the last Wind Turbine taken out of the sea . But then what to do with them.?

@randompeople4398 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing megaship

@laika3848 2 жыл бұрын

Bravo, terrible et nice job. Beau travail

@christopherbentley5216 2 жыл бұрын

Worked on survey for the FLAGS Pipeline and Choctaw 2 in1976 for the inshore section. Never worked on Semac 1 though.

@davidloader424 5 ай бұрын

Castellated cuts we used on Esso Odin one of first Decom jobs

@sundarrn4438 3 жыл бұрын

Well done Team Shell! 👏

@user-gv1tx1wo3s 5 ай бұрын

👍💯👍💯We stand by our promises to you and we will never know betrayal as long as we live, God Almighty willing ✌

@Rocky18200 3 жыл бұрын

Number 1 Brand. But in Bangladesh this product needs to increase marketing promotion. its very awesome lubricant. we love it.❤️❤️❤️❤️

@thedutchgamer3469 3 жыл бұрын

Ive seen the sliepnir by my own in Rotterdam

@vimukthijayakody5010 2 жыл бұрын

How they even made this 40 years before man

@madhuk6663 3 жыл бұрын

I am proud of what Shell does

@wahyuekop.6332 3 жыл бұрын

Thr safely technique removing Top Side... Good removing Top Side... 👍👍👍👍👍

@ChuckWolber 6 ай бұрын

Shell missed an opportunity to make a hilarious joke here. They should have "accidentally" left a single grounding wire in place that held strong during the lift.

@jasontang9536 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah our yard built the Heerema

@arthitpunpinij 3 жыл бұрын

Dice the Brent alpha very nicely and put into a pan until caramelised.

@markmark2080 2 жыл бұрын

The size and scale of the tackle (and everything else) takes your breath away...

@RD-ox3ce 2 жыл бұрын

I worked on Alpha Bravo and Charlie in the 90,s

@raysshine3504 3 жыл бұрын

I love the floating LNG facility humanity brain power if they put commitment.

@jhonatan.osorio6891 Жыл бұрын

Los trabajos más bonitos de la vida Y lo mas peligroso Cuando uno arriesga la vida

@scottholman3982 2 жыл бұрын

Is good to know that we are cleaning up the mess we made in the North Sea. Removing these platforms is an expensive, dangerous job, but must be done to allow safe navigation.

@markknoop6283 Жыл бұрын

Yeah how many ships sailed into the drll platforms.

@larrykay6606 Жыл бұрын

Very goo

@WinterRoom 11 ай бұрын

what were those sphere like stuff on the bottom of the legs when they lifted it out? are they some kind of coral? they looked really huge, i wonder how big they were really.

@jordanbuechler5143 9 ай бұрын

You’re correct, large coral growth

@cascaderails9340 3 жыл бұрын

3:03 That voice crack though

@marcusfuentes8641 Жыл бұрын

Cut ANY trashy mud with sphere (spear) and defend wifh sphere again to defend spotted mud

@sonijnvu396 3 жыл бұрын

👌🤘

@charlenemartin5899 2 жыл бұрын

How much bigger is the mars oilrig in gulf of mexico us waters

@marcusfuentes8641 Жыл бұрын

Place breather on through chemical ice molecules(air) to quickly clear it.

@user-jf9yc5dg2x Жыл бұрын

Great and elaborate work, but the safety rate is low. The crane should have been installed first and then shredded, because it is possible that natural factors may cause danger.

@Brandon68plus1 2 жыл бұрын

So the remainder of the legs just stay in ocean?

@weetv69 3 жыл бұрын

Really like to work with this kind of company. I apply for 3 times and got denied 3 years ago. Now i am working with biogas plant. Hope i can hop in someday! Prayers and best wishes to everyone!

@Wizzy959 3 жыл бұрын

Don't know what line of work you're in, but maybe try Boskalis. They do a variety of things that support the Offshore Oil and Gas World.

@jumpingjeffflash9946 Жыл бұрын

i want to see how Troll A will be removed.

@James-ze1ni 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome video... would love to work on oil rigs one day

@wahyuekop.6332 3 жыл бұрын

Im exciting with this technique remove

@willsalazarramirez5139 3 жыл бұрын

cix 🇵🇪 in red and black 🇳🇱 🎅

@Polk811 Жыл бұрын

My dad was on that rig for 30 years 😢

@johibbert9735 Жыл бұрын

I was on the Shell tanker SS Drupa in the 1980s

@johibbert9735 Жыл бұрын

The Drupa did many trips to the Brent Spar which your Dad I am sure will remember too

@tully135f 3 жыл бұрын

@qazinazirbaig4522 3 жыл бұрын

this in really amazing and I am glad that the man who was the part the erection of this plant is my boss Now.

@WhisperedDreams951 2 жыл бұрын

So sad to see where I spent so much of my time and labour meet her demise - goodbye Alpha (ex Deutag Drilling).

@marcusfuentes8641 Жыл бұрын

Place rocket flare thrust in water with clean pit to see fumes turn into a rocket thrust ball move out of water

@IgorVanLoon 3 жыл бұрын

What happens with the part stil in the water?

@3niknicholson Жыл бұрын

It's not a bad idea to leave a place where the fish can be safe from the fishing boats, and cold water corals can grow. They actually help a diversity of sea life grow and survive.

@kieronsimons5679 3 жыл бұрын

This oil rig is currently in a port in my home town

@TheManiacNathan 2 жыл бұрын

They can not do every thing with it, because it is full of asbestos

@cc-xu5tr 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheManiacNathan yep, and guess how much, ill relpy when u guess so im not giving it away right away

@bury._. Жыл бұрын

what happened to the lower jacket?

@elizabethwinsor5140 Жыл бұрын

Probably just left there - not many ships with a draft of 80m ....

@vice.nor.virtue Жыл бұрын

HI CAN I HAVE A JOB DOING THIS PLEASE

@marcusfuentes8641 Жыл бұрын

Let pressure out 3 times

@marcusfuentes8641 Жыл бұрын

FROM BOP

@geomodelrailroader 2 жыл бұрын

Bravo and Delta have been sent to the scrapyard in Harpole now Alpha and Charlie are up it is time to scrap them too. First on the list is Alpha this one is solid steel so both the rig and the jacket will be taken up and scrapped. Charlie is made of concrete so all they have to do is is cut the rig and lift it off and fill the legs and the cells with concrete and sand and abandon them turning it into a beacon tower.

@alfiembra Жыл бұрын

You are talking nonsense, as someone that worked on the Brent decommissioning project for Shell in Aberdeen I can tell you that only the gravity base structure and legs are concrete. The topsides are steel the same as all the other Brent platforms. Once the topsides are removed they do not fill the legs with sand or anything else, they are flooded with seawater and the legs are capped with concrete slabs that have navigation aids fitted to them. Do not comment on things you clearly know very little about.

@azathoth01 3 жыл бұрын

Alright but this is cool

@marcusfuentes8641 Жыл бұрын

Then close them back

@zne29m37 3 жыл бұрын

The rope access lads where abseiling wrong down them legs and unsafe.

@markknoop6283 2 жыл бұрын

The biggest diamond wire cutter. I think the diamond wire cutter used by Mammoet to cut the kursk was a bit bigger.

@shaneward6689 2 жыл бұрын

I guess we could think of it as the largest single assembly diamond wire cutter, the one used on the Kursk was obviously made up a few very large unconnected pieces, being the two suction components and then the wire, but I see your point. More like the world's largest underwater bandsaw

@marcusfuentes8641 Жыл бұрын

Do not open Bop yet

@solorclips9672 Жыл бұрын

one of those ships probably polute the same in one day than all the cars on earth in 1 year, and the gov tryna tax me saying they wanna be more eco friendly.

@ben10dev 3 жыл бұрын

They should have contacted Dr Hank Pym.

@grobbler1 2 жыл бұрын

The Lazy 'A'

@indrojeet7987 3 жыл бұрын

hrima making to singapure sambcrop marrine

@lesjohnston6975 3 жыл бұрын

Not sure if you should be proud of something that has been destroyed, I was and am proud to have been part of the construction of these jackets and topsides in shipyards and then on the hookups to see them being removed and dismantled is not a good thing, and also the revenue that from these assets has been lost, we will never see the fantastic engineering and ingenuity that went into building these fantastic structures ever again, not something to celebrate

@biffgate-ii7od Жыл бұрын

課題やまほどあったんだハロペリドール飲んで眠っている時間はない

@raysshine3504 3 жыл бұрын

North sea draining and synthetic oil is becoming a thing (artificial oil)

@cc-xu5tr 2 жыл бұрын

i have mixed feelings about this, while yes they did the right thing removing the rigs, i feel as though they could have left more of the support, there was so much growing on the support structure that called it home for a while, but its nice that they left some of it though