Rig Views

[Zoro]

Ok guys, to save hijacking Captain Rob's previous thread I thought I'd throw some pics up here. Please feel free to add your own as you see fit. Always interested in seeing what others do on a daily basis..

North Rankin Gas Platform


Subsea Tree through the eyes of an ROV, doing an "As found survey"


3 Orange SCM's (Subsea Control Module) electro/ hydraulic operated


TV Room on board Nor Australis


My room for the duration of the job


Known as the "Doghouse" or drillers shack, on board the Ocean Partriot

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A BOP stack (Blow Out Preventer), stops the rig from blowing up while drilling through gas pockets etc, on board Ocean Patriot.


Accomodation block and outside smoke shack (container on left) on Ocean Patriot


Your's truely and an ROV


ROV control room


Subsea Tree being removed from deck, this particular tree has a service life of 15 years, it had been down since 1983...


and another

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The Derrick on the rig


One of the support vessels


The large pipe you can see is the "Production" circuit, crude oil flows through this before being transfered onto the oil companies for sale.


Another Derrick shot, showing the V-door where the drill pipe/ casing etc gets dragged up to the drill floor.


These long sections on the left are called Production Riser, they get connected together and give you access to the well bore through the subsea tree from the drill floor. Can run tooling down the centre of them to plug a well, pressure test or flare off the well.


My orange umbilical connected to the control pod, this is what gives me hydraulic control of the tree when it is subsea. It is a hydraulic hose made up of 19 lines and about 600mtrs long- very big $$$'s

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This area here is called the 'Moonpool" nearly every rig has one, it is located directly under the drill floor, everything that needs to go subsea goes down through here.


Some more riser (400mtrs worth), this is on board the Ocean Bounty


Derrick of the Ocean Bounty


This setup is known as the EDP and LRP, they are two tools connected together (Emergency Disconnect Package and Lower Riser Package) this is placed in the moonpool and run down on the riser when connected all together. It interfaces with the Subsea tree and gives the hydraulic connection etc and no that is not me. That was our Subsea engineer that did not last long with us.


Another support vessel with some of our equipment on board


This particular umbilical has 27 cores, replacement value would run about $1.5Mil.

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3rd party computer room on board Ocean Bounty, with Completion Engineer- doing nothing as usual...


Me on top of the EDP/LRP assembly in the moonpool on the Ocean Bounty


Skidding the EDP/LRP over the moonpool, getting ready to run the riser and connect all the lego together...


And my bike, I know...... its not a Busa, not yet anyway..

I do have more, be interested to see what others have got to look at.

[CaptainRob]

Good pictures mate .
Makes my life look pretty simple!
As we all say, 'livin the dream'!

[pashnit]

Very cool photos! Out of curiosity, how deep is the ocean floor below you?

[Dale]

Great pics mate. looks heaps more interesting than my current job, thats for sure.

Thanks heaps for the P.M mate .. food for thought

[revhead]

thats great

[Zoro]

Very cool photos! Out of curiosity, how deep is the ocean floor below you?

Tim, it varies from 100mtrs to 550mtrs depending on location.
Most of our work is in the North West shelf area off Western Australia (North West) towards East Timor.
There is some deep water near Indonesia, looking at approx 6100' or 2000mtrs.
Also some really shallow wells over there too where the tree actually sticks out of the water.

[Dan85]

Be nice and cosy in that bunk with 4 outhers hahaha. or are they nice to you and put back to backs so you share with opposite shift?

[BikerBoy]

good post zoro! Not something many of us would normaly get to see.

[06BUSA]

Top stuff Zoro! Thanks for the info and pics! Looks a lot better than my underground coal job lol

[Zoro]

Be nice and cosy in that bunk with 4 outhers hahaha. or are they nice to you and put back to backs so you share with opposite shift?

Dan, was only two of us in that room on that particular job so while one is sleeping the other is working....well not really working but vertical at least.
On the way to Karatha we stopped in Port Headland for about 1/2hr on the Scare North paper run (Darwin-Broome-Port Headland-Karatha Airnorth flight) was wondering where you were...

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good post zoro! Not something many of us would normaly get to see.

I'll have to post some more up, I do have a really good video that drags you through the entire rig and into the different departments like Mud Engineers, Ballast Control, Drill Floor/ Roughnecks, Galley, Gym, Subsea and Helideck etc.
Was filmed by a young Engineer from Woodside, she did a great job of it.
Not sure how to post it up however it may have found its way to YouTube.
See what I can rustle up.

[BikerBoy]

yeah awesome mate! I love seeing pics and vids of jobs like you do. Very interesting!! and like I mentioned not something we normally get to see from such a personal point of view. Awesome stuff!!! Thanks for sharing!!! Must admit, I drooled at your ROV control room set-up!!!! I work as a CGI artist (computer generated images and animation) and love all the tech gear. I've been trying to put together something to show as well, but need to get permission on mine due to contracts and clauses. Hopefuly I'll be able to soon. But keep yours coming if you've got more.

[Zoro]

yeah awesome mate! I love seeing pics and vids of jobs like you do. Very interesting!! and like I mentioned not something we normally get to see from such a personal point of view. Awesome stuff!!! Thanks for sharing!!! Must admit, I drooled at your ROV control room set-up!!!! I work as a CGI artist (computer generated images and animation) and love all the tech gear. I've been trying to put together something to show as well, but need to get permission on mine due to contracts and clauses. Hopefuly I'll be able to soon. But keep yours coming if you've got more.

I'd be very interested to see what you've got Bikerboy, the CGI stuff is really interesting. I've watched quite a few "behind the scenes" movie stuff and the CGI stuff they show is very interesting.
Bring it on.

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Top stuff Zoro! Thanks for the info and pics! Looks a lot better than my underground coal job lol

06Busa, I've never been underground, have you got any pics or anything?

[Dan85]

Zoro I'm good at doing nothing but being vertical doing it! I woulda been there slaving away.

[BEAU]

Zoro, I found this absolutely amazing as I love all big boys toys and what man can do when he sets his mind to it... I'd love to see the video and more photos. Bring them on I say. And love ya bike. I had an XR600 years ago and loved it.

Two question's though, have you had any unpleasant expierenses with pirates/kidnappers in your time. And how long have you been in this field?

[CaptainRob]

My turn to hijack zoro's thread because this is my department!
I'm a self- employed delivery captain and I focus on delivering foreign ships in areas of high piracy activity: West Africa, Horn of Africa, Malacca - I need the money! I delivered this one I'm on now, but they asked me to stay on. But when it finishes up I will go back to my normal work.