Started By
Message

re: Giant oil platform begins journey from Ingleside to the Gulf of Mexico

Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:27 am to
Posted by MorningWood
On the coast of North Mexico
Member since May 2009
2672 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:27 am to
Posted by MorningWood
On the coast of North Mexico
Member since May 2009
2672 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:30 am to
quote:

Waiting until hurricane season to move it?


All based on installation vessels. Got to hit the window or you’re looking at millions a day in vessel cost and lost production. Also may be a year before you get the vessels again
Posted by RibsandWhiskey
Metry
Member since Aug 2011
636 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:36 am to
quote:

That little Spanish girl seemed to have a wonderful curiosity about her. I’d bet she goes on to do awesome things.


Sounds like a future engineer. Already interested in how things are built.
Posted by Klark Kent
Houston via BR
Member since Jan 2008
67051 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:37 am to
Posted by msap9020
Texas
Member since Feb 2015
1283 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:43 am to
Not working on this one but we inherited a lot of the Anchor engineering team at Wood and fab team from Kiewit for our project.
Posted by AllDayEveryDay
Nawf Tejas
Member since Jun 2015
7085 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 12:10 pm to
Was that bigfoot? Or did bigfoot sail already?
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
73856 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 12:13 pm to
quote:

Was that bigfoot? Or did bigfoot sail already?



thought I saw a video of it leaving not too long ago, hard to tell though, vid was pretty blurry
Posted by alphaandomega
Tuscaloosa
Member since Aug 2012
13654 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 12:15 pm to
quote:

A march similar to the trail of tears. But instead of natives it is moving through nature only to eventually kill it.




Now do windmills and birds.
Posted by lostinbr
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Oct 2017
9601 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 12:59 pm to
quote:

Was that bigfoot? Or did bigfoot sail already?

Bigfoot has been in service for like 5 years.

This is Anchor, going to GC807.
Posted by lostinbr
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Oct 2017
9601 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 1:07 pm to
quote:

I don’t realize how massive these things were until I went to Corpus for work one time. Holy hell are they huge

I imagine they look absolutely massive sitting in Ingleside. I’ve spent time on a bunch of deepwater facilities but you don’t get the same perspective as looking up at one from the ground.
Posted by Sweep Da Leg
Member since Sep 2013
924 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 1:18 pm to
quote:

Bigfoot has been in service for like 5 years.


Little longer than that, maybe 7-8. Had a 2-3 year frickup that delayed it
Posted by lake chuck fan
westlake
Member since Aug 2011
9270 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 1:19 pm to
My boots stay on land... refineries and chemical plants. I ain't lost nothing in the Gulf.
Posted by msap9020
Texas
Member since Feb 2015
1283 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 1:27 pm to
quote:

quote:
Bigfoot has been in service for like 5 years.


Little longer than that, maybe 7-8. Had a 2-3 year frickup that delayed it



And actually Anchor is late as well.
Posted by IHateMatt
On the I-10 bridge
Member since Jul 2021
20 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 1:30 pm to
Sign on the side said Green Canyon block 763. That is 130 miles SSW of Wine Island Pass by Cocodrie in 4,900 feet of water. I only go about 30 miles past Brutus so a little too far for me to see how it fishes.....
Posted by chew4219
Member since Sep 2009
2724 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 2:05 pm to
quote:

mma need coordinates for where they are parking this thing please and thanks.


I think it’ll be GC809
Posted by CHEDBALLZ
South Central LA
Member since Dec 2009
21962 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 2:08 pm to
Not me, Me and Norm were building the 4 legged vent boom. Then after that was done I was the living quarters part. Me and the scaffold crew played quarter toss on the main deck. I did drop a hatch cover from the main deck all the way to the ground though.
Posted by BillyGibbons
St. Somewhere
Member since Mar 2020
650 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 2:13 pm to
I’ve spent a lot of time at Kiewit Ingleside on facilities like this. It never got old walking up to the elevator and marveling at the size of these things. You have to keep in mind that aren’t ballasted at all dockside so they are sitting 100’ or more higher than when on site in the gulf.
Posted by GeauxTigers0107
South Louisiana
Member since Oct 2009
9777 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 3:07 pm to
quote:

I imagine they look absolutely massive sitting in Ingleside


They do but once they anchor it it obviously won't look near that big. Article says it'll only produce 75k barrels a day though. I've worked on Mars several times and at one time it was producing 250k barrels a day. It literally looks half the size of this one.

Thunderhorse, or Blunderhorse as we used to call it, now that's a big bitch.
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
65943 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 3:27 pm to
quote:

I only go about 30 miles past Brutus so a little too far for me to see how it fishes.....
Really? Word on the street is that you’re afraid that you might run into Matt out there.
Posted by StreamsOfWhiskey
The Woodlands, TX
Member since Jun 2013
592 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 4:57 pm to
It’s Anchor and yes it’s tied into the Amberjack line. Ballymore will tie-back to Blind Faith which is tied into Mountaineer system.
first pageprev pagePage 2 of 3Next pagelast page

Back to top
logoFollow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to get the latest updates on LSU Football and Recruiting.

FacebookTwitterInstagram