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re: North Sea Oil Rig
Posted on 4/17/20 at 12:30 pm to alpinetiger
Posted on 4/17/20 at 12:30 pm to alpinetiger
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Posted on 4/17/20 at 12:32 pm to rmc
any of you baws ever rode the basket in high seas?
i did once and that crane operator was top flight that day. He kept it 3 feet off the crew boat deck so i could jump. never want to do that again. spent a few months on the celtic sea in the mississippi canyon but that was helicopter every time.
i did once and that crane operator was top flight that day. He kept it 3 feet off the crew boat deck so i could jump. never want to do that again. spent a few months on the celtic sea in the mississippi canyon but that was helicopter every time.
Posted on 4/17/20 at 12:34 pm to redstick13
Wow, that's too close for comfort. You guys be safe out there. 
Posted on 4/17/20 at 12:35 pm to Nado Jenkins83
The septic sea. Spent a lot of time on that bitch back in the late 90’s.
Posted on 4/17/20 at 12:37 pm to Traveler
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Gorilla I was the one I was thinking of.
I remember hearing the stories of that rig too. LeTourneau jack-up that got caught in bad seas during, guess it, a rig move. The swaying of the legs caused the hull to crack and the pre-load tanks flooded.
Posted on 4/17/20 at 12:39 pm to TigerFred
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The septic sea. Spent a lot of time on that bitch back in the late 90’s.
i spent 77 days in row on that shithole. when i got back to fourchon felt like years had passed
Posted on 4/17/20 at 12:43 pm to redstick13
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I remember hearing the stories of that rig too. LeTourneau jack-up that got caught in bad seas during, guess it, a rig move. The swaying of the legs caused the hull to crack and the pre-load tanks flooded.
my old man told me stories of that. i'll have to ask him but when he was with Sperry in the late 80s he went up to a job off the new jersey coast. heavy fog for 22 days. everyday they would fly out but landing wasn't safe enough so they went back in. the guy he was relieving was pissed
Posted on 4/17/20 at 12:51 pm to alpinetiger
My grandparent’s neighbor is an old man that worked on a tug back in the day laying pipeline in the North Sea. Heard enough stories. That’ll have to be a hard pass for me.
Posted on 4/17/20 at 12:51 pm to Nado Jenkins83
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any of you baws ever rode the basket in high seas?
Those personnel baskets can get out of control in a hurry. We were doing a crew change during rig move once and I got a wild ride on the personnel basket. Right when the crane operator lifted us off the heliport the rig dipped down into a big wave trough and it sent us flying right towards the cab of the crane. We went right up alongside the door of the crane and it just so happened the crane operator going on days off was on the basket with me and ended up nearly face to face with the crane operator running the crane. That damn fool grabbed on to the hand rail of the crane and yells out to the on duty crane operator "Hey motherfricker! What's going on?".
ETA - After the "hey motherfricker" the crane operator tried to put us down on the deck but couldn't get us down fast enough and we ended up slamming into the cement unit. Me and the crane operator were on the side of the basket that hit the cement unit but we had both jumped off the basket onto the roof of the cement unit. Us two fools looked at each other and silently made the decision to jump back onto the personnel basket and ride it out. We eventually ended up on the crew boat but it was one hell of a ride.
This post was edited on 4/17/20 at 1:07 pm
Posted on 4/17/20 at 1:03 pm to redstick13
i only rode it down in bad seas that one time. its scary when the crew boat deck is coming up and you are stationary. feels like you are falling when your not
Posted on 4/17/20 at 1:16 pm to DaBike
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They would joke about the gulf platforms shutting down for hurricanes
I worked on a Norwegian vessel and went straight through the eye of a hurricane. They said they had never seen anything like that before and worked in the north sea.
Ridiculous how rough it was. Walking down the hall to your room was, walk on the wall, floor, wall, floor, wall etc.
I went to the bridge and you would see sky and then crashing waves. It was stupid. I thought the ship was going to break at times. You could hear the steel creaking and vibrating.
I've been in some rough shite and luckily never got sea sick. That's just one notch on my belt. I have many lol. I don't miss being offshore.
Posted on 4/17/20 at 1:21 pm to Nado Jenkins83
Man I started out offshore when most of the safety rules were more guidelines. It was a ton of fun and I have some really good stories to tell but I'm damn lucky to have survived that craziness. Wish I could go back and do it again.
This post was edited on 4/17/20 at 1:33 pm
Posted on 4/17/20 at 1:21 pm to alpinetiger
Posted on 4/17/20 at 1:28 pm to saintsfan1977
I never rode out a hurricane but I did ride out a tropical storm once on a sister rig to the Noble Paul Romano. This was before they converted those rigs from submersibles to semi-subs so we were sitting on bottom. The waves got so bad that they started lifting the rig off bottom and slamming it back down. We ended up several feet away from the wellhead after the storm.
This post was edited on 4/17/20 at 1:52 pm
Posted on 4/17/20 at 1:42 pm to alpinetiger
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Friends and I re-roofed my house in '08 and I wouldn't get up there without being roped in.
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alpinetiger
Does not check out.
Posted on 4/17/20 at 1:42 pm to redstick13
Been in the North Sea before, but fortunately it was pretty calm. Only 6-8ft seas We were in a boat built for it though, so it only felt like about a 2-4ft in a normal boat.
X-Bow FTW when it comes to rough seas. It's designed to plow through the waves instead of riding them.
We were in a boat built for it though, so it only felt like about a 2-4ft in a normal boat. X-Bow FTW when it comes to rough seas. It's designed to plow through the waves instead of riding them.
Posted on 4/17/20 at 2:03 pm to alpinetiger
my dad was a company man for shell and worked in the north sea for 3 years. we lived in aberdeen. said it would get so cold and wet that if you stayed too long in one spot your boots would freeze to the floor of the rig.
Posted on 4/17/20 at 6:29 pm to redstick13
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North Sea Oil Rig by redstick13
I never rode out a hurricane but I did ride out a tropical storm once on a sister rig to the Noble Paul Romano
I've been on that rig before. I rode through a bad tropical storm on a 200ft barge. The Gulf was evacuated except for us Lmao. A water spout hit us. That was some crazy shite. I have stories for days
Posted on 4/17/20 at 6:57 pm to redstick13
fricking Paul Romano. Spent a little over 60 straight days on that rotten POS.
The Amos Runner, the sister rig, was suppose to get upgrades but was coming from overseas and wasn't going to make it in time. They pull the PR out of the scrap yard, patched her up and send it out.
The Amos Runner, the sister rig, was suppose to get upgrades but was coming from overseas and wasn't going to make it in time. They pull the PR out of the scrap yard, patched her up and send it out.
Posted on 4/17/20 at 7:29 pm to GREENHEAD22
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fricking Paul Romano
If memory serves me correct that was the first submersible that Noble converted to a floater. All of them were brake handles, geolographs and piles of rust 10 years ago.
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