Post a pic of where you are now

[bobAlike]

In Germany this week working where they test RollsRoyce Trent 1000 engines. These things a bloody huge.

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[Woodsey]

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[teamonkey]

the industry def has too much money if it can't work out a more efficient way of testing!

i would have agreed with you before i became a slave to the wages mr titbean.

however, when you put it into perspective, we flared off for just under the 24 hours, approx half a million dollars of oil (at current value) was burnt to prove the well was sustainable

the rig i am sitting on is going into what we call a "hot stack" soon, whereby it will sit in the firth outside the village of Invergorden, untill it is next hired again

and the approximate cost of that hire, including all staff, equipment (including the ROV system i operate, is a mere £500,000 a day, thats right, about half a milly a day, to rent the services of a single rig

this industry is an expensive industry, so burning off a bit of oil is literally a drop in the (oil) ocean

its cheaper to burn it off, than to rig up a system for storing that small amount of oil

Mick

Currently staring at fish arses!!! it's not all rock n roll and fireballs

[titaniumbean]

but the ocean of oil is shrinking.

IMO a big floating bucket would do

[neeko]

Where am I?

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[Longines]

South Korea?

[booder]

Wisbech ?

[Woodsey]

South Korea?

Looks like mostly Korean writing there with a bit of Chinese thrown in. So it its not Korea it's a China/Koreatown somewhere 😊

[Doobs]

Watsons are big in Hong Kong.   No idea if they are anywhere else though.  And the buildings look very low for Hong Kong.

Edit.  Missus reckons south Korea by the writing too.

[neeko]

Suwon , the language is difficult, they don't use letters, each character is a sound, hello has 5 sylabuls I have not got them in the right order yet.

In the tourist areas enough English has been spoken to get by, and I hate jet lag.

[teamonkey]

So, i, or we, my fellow offshore chaps and chappesses, have now moved to a new location, to decommission an old well that is no longer in use.

and to get there, we have a little assistance from a couple of boatymcboatfaces

so one photo is the view from my window

the other is the view from one of the boats

[titaniumbean]

nice, very interesting.

[celtic]

nice, very interesting.

This. Just went and googled 'how do you build an oil rig' on the strength of those pictures. Incredible stuff.

Where are you at the moment teamonkey?

[teamonkey]

nice, very interesting.

This. Just went and googled 'how do you build an oil rig' on the strength of those pictures. Incredible stuff.

Where are you at the moment teamonkey?

Currently we are on the Tartan oilfield

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and we are plugging up an old well that is no longer efficient

i think in this case, we are going deep into the well, and pulling out a lot of the steel tubing (casing) that the oil runs up from the reservoir.

the idea is, that when we leave, there will be a small hole left in the seabed that will quickly be filled by the sediment so no one can tell we were there

strangely, the casing that is left might be one of the few things that the next sentient race to inhabit this earth will find of our existence, proof of previous life and all that

[Woodsey]

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