it took me 5s on google: Weighing approximately 200,000 tons and situated 35 meters deep from the seafloor, this engineering marvel has an estimated maximum oil extraction capacity of 4.5 million tons annually.
As a chief of operations of an offshore oil rig, I can tell that this is an amazing career that comes with a lot of sacrifices. Money is good, in my case, more than 1M per year, but im a full living oil rig worker, this means that theres no helicopter or ship that brings me back to my house every other week, I usually spend 6 months straight then 2 weeks off and I do another 6 months, no days off, no schedule, pure work.
There must be decent recreational facilities on these outfits. How many hours a day do you work? May I ask how the drills go from vertical to horizontal under ground? What kind of watch do you wear at work?
@tikitavi7120 Facilities are ok, just the basics, I usually work anything between 85 to 95 hours a week, an average of 13 hours a day, no days off, the drilling it's kind of complicated to explain but here you go... The drillpipe is actually quite flexible. It’s actually rather difficult to drill a perfectly vertical well in most formations without taking a ridiculous amount of time. Once you get a slant well pointed in the correct direction with the proper BHA, bottom hole assembly and drilling parameters: weight on bit, flow rate rpm and more it may track that direction with little to no intervention Horizontal is not that difficult. It is hard on the drillpipe. In especially abrasive formations, it can drastically reduce the life of the drillpipe. For horizontal wells, as long as you have a vertical section above the horizontal section, the weight of the pipe in the vertical section pushes the pipe forward in the horizontal section
I was one of the engineers who helped in the design and material selection of this rig. The weather was absolute hell. Most of the world has zero idea how powerful mother nature can truly be.
Ron? Is that you! How yeah been you little reach around master you! Still tuggin away without consent? Or did the last reach around rehab finally work?
@@B2InFeRnoIcedAxeminecraft Think prison conditions and divide it by at least two. I've worked on eight or so rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and Trinidad, and it's miserable in my opinion. EOG Pelican in Trinidad had one operable shower for all the hands, and it was filthy. I worked on BP Horn Mountain in the GOM when the weather was in the 30's, and there was no hot water to shower. That's the kind of conditions you can expect to run into. The food is usually awful contrary to what some may say. That said, some like offshore work because they often work a two week on/two week off schedule. It's not worth it to me. Although I'm glad I got to experience what it's like, I'm never working offshore ever again unless the pay was for all 24 hours of the day at quintuple my normal rate.
The food sounds horrible and boring - no free time spaces to train or have fun : very Russian . Note they did not show the accommodations - bound to be miserable .
Another reason the rig will pump wastewater back into empied cavities is not only to dispose of it, but to also prevent the empty cavities from collapsing and destabilizing the seafloor.
Engineers are not appreciated enough this is an example of sheer engineering masterclass. I cannot even imagine the careful planning and execution that went into this colossal machinery.
@@edamb6044 no, simulating multi physics and chemical reaction on building like this is not hard for computer, especially on modern computer farm, and you need to know all modern facility that need precision design always using computer design
On an individual level we are not all that intelligent. Where our strength has been is collective intelligence, collective knowledge, sociability, and building on that every generation through teaching. The better we have gotten at working together the more civilization has progressed. It is literally what separated us from the rest of the animal kingdom.
@@michaelg7601 Which is another reason why war and xenophobia are detrimental to our species, if humans could act as one single entity there is nothing we could not achieve together. Nationalism and patriotism are archaic traits, we should all just be proud to be human.
I've been on 3 regular sized rigs as a temp worker and the absolutely blew my mind with the size and scale. This rig could prob fit those 3 in it easy. Amazes me how they can FLOAT something like that on the ocean and set it down on the legs.
Imagine what we could do if we used these resources for saving our planet, instead of destroying it for profit. Or for researching how we can improve our political systems. But no, we rather stare in awe at a giant piece of metal sticking out of the ocean.
Amazin engineering. I was hoping to see the living quarters, offices, bathrooms, shops, all of it, not only the cafeteria. I'm guessing it has a rec room and maybe a cinema. Oh well, still, great to see this bit. Thanks for posting it.
I love watching this type of educational videos that you cannot imagine how these gigantic inventions are created. Thank you RUclips I am in awe to believe the imaginables.
Definitely props to South Korea for being able to design and assemble such an exceptionally complex structure like this. Just watching them put those huge pieces together and imagining the work going into the designs, it's kind of like a space ship. If they keep pushing the limits we're gonna really start looking like aliens ourselves.
War has helped us advance at an incredible speed 🤷♂️.. wouldn’t have most of our tech at home if the government didn’t spend crazy amounts on tech for the military
I worked at a factory in the UK (Schlumberger) that made a lot of drill bits for these Shell oil was their main customer, this was 20 years ago they were around £40k then I imagine a lot more now. The diamonds were industrial & pressed on small machines around the factory
diamonds aren't actually expensive or rare...they're common. Jewelry diamonds are only made expensive by a few Cartels controlling the rate at which they are put on the market.
After over 100 years, Schlumberger have re-named themselves to SLB, just to confuse the likes of Greta Thumberg 😃 Plus they own Cameron, the company name on the chair in the Drill Shack
The engineering that goes into designing this and the logistics to assemble it are absolutely mind blowing. Theres a bridge that goes across a frozen sea (i think in the bearing sea but might just be a concept and not built, its a been a while but i THINK its operational) Thats just as mind boggling having to deal with heavy winds and flowing ice.
100% agree. I am not mechanical in nature however, I could not imagine the amount of concentrated efforts of different fields to create something as advanced as this.
I just watched the movie "The Burning Sea" yesterday and now this pops up in my RUclips recommendations!?! Big brother is watching every keystroke! Great video, by the way. I would like to know the process they go thru to decide where to place a rig of this size.
Too many emergency systems that have never been pressed, never been used... If it costs the company millions to shut down for a few hours, are the emergency systems trusted to be tested and maintained?
14:04 since pumping out oil leaves empty spaces under the ground, filling it up with useless industrial wastes like dirt, broken debris or rocks from the drilling to prevent the empty space from collapsing is not a bad idea.
Getting a boat and going to one of these oil rigs is probably the best way to survive the zombie apocalypse. These things have hundreds of employees. That means enough food is delivered to last those hundreds of employees for weeks at a time. Mad supplies. Imagine having a group of 4 with the supplies 240 people need
if you're in an apocalypse, how do you think the helicopters and ships are going to bring supplies out? why on earth would you want to be isolated in the middle of the ocean. can't even fish from that rig, once food runs out, you're eating your neighbor
@@cwr8618 No new supplies would be coming. Goal is to find a place with enough stored, stockpiled food whilst being close to somewhere you can get food. Supplies initially intended for 300 people will last a dozen man group for years. Supplementing that with fishing. Also at 2:51 we see the distance from the lowest part of the rig to the water. You can easily put some poles up there with line going deep enough in.
@@nukiesduke6868might be enough food for a bit and possibly fish from there, and they said their desal plant was high tech. but no freedom to roam or expectations the resources would be available or interested in flying or boating to that rig to save anyone amidst their own apocalypse.
This is truly mind boggling. The engineering on some many different disciplines and to coordinate all the different pieces of machinery is so astoundingly impressive.
Imagine war not existing and all our combined ingenuity going towards these kind of projects. That milestone in humanity's journey towards maturity is likely one of the final hurdles to deep space travel and colonisation.
Off shore work is tough and challenging but the rewards more than make up for it. If you are a young person running with the wrong crowd then this type of work will be perfect to get you away from that crowd before permanent damage is done. once you have a permanent conviction on your record you will likely be excluded from this type of work as well as even many types of regular work..
This was astounding to me, honestly. When the narrator said, "this facility basically represents almost all human knowledge about engineering, science, and materials" I did not think that was hyperbole. 45 wells , oil or gas doesn't matter, gas turbines to power itself (with the gas it extracts), it really is an example of humanity being able to adapt to almost any environment, given enough time.
@@Cosmicmonkeyman This was made in Russia and Korea. Don't know don't care if Korean or Russian unions were used, do know that US unions were not used thus the price and timelines are not egregiously inflated. There is a reason that we went from the ship building capital of the world to less than 1% of ship building and almost all of that is due to government requirements to buy domestic for certain things not because it's in the least bit competitive. Unions with mob connections and other connections to the Decorate parties are corrupt as fug and destroy domestic production.
Wow that's Amazing this job looks very complex you really have to know what you're doing in this kind of work 💯 God bless their Souls who work in this profession 🙏🙌👍
Holy shit, this channel is insane.I always wanted a channel showcasing all thing science, medicine, engineering, mathematics etc. - The power grid - Heart, Brain, Orthopedic Surgery - The Electric Grid - Mega Machines - Bridges - Petrochemical Plants -Nuclear Reactors -Rockets - Fighter jets and Carriers - Communication Systems Would all make amazing science topics.
O worked offshore in the high Arctic. Around the north pole. We set the rig up 30 feet of ice. It was basically a Land rig. But our BOP system sat on the ocean floor depth of 2000 ft. We flew everything in on huge cargo plane C130 Hercules 144 loads. Took roughly five weeks to rig it up. The nearest tree was 2500 miles south. Ice as far the eyes can see. Would you believe we had Ravens that far North. And polar bears. Lol
@@idontthinkso666 I feel like he actually stole this video and voice overed it. The guy in the video and his voice are saying completely different things...
Good video with a terrible mistake - Oil and Gas is not contained in the pictured cavities (that the video shows a Caves!) it is stored within the pores of the rock (porosity) and flow (at least on conventional reservoirs) through the interconnection of those pores (permeability).
WOW , Pretty sweet Video, I worked on Drilling Rigs in the late 1970's on land in the Bakken oil field of Montana and North Dakota they were no where near what this rig is. I'd say were in the stone age compared to this rig.
So how deep is the water there… if its sitting on the seabed
At least three
it took me 5s on google: Weighing approximately 200,000 tons and situated 35 meters deep from the seafloor, this engineering marvel has an estimated maximum oil extraction capacity of 4.5 million tons annually.
@@Telepathic_Snail_Overlords 3 what?
@@fracturedsolace145about 3 fiddy
It never ceases me amaze me how humans can design and build such an amazing and complicated piece of equipment. I’m blown away by their intelligence.
Our* intelligence
@@Azdingue He’s an alien visiting from another planet😺
It's because unlike you, some people actually goes to school
@@getlost3810 GFY
@@getlost3810 lol 🤣
As a chief of operations of an offshore oil rig, I can tell that this is an amazing career that comes with a lot of sacrifices. Money is good, in my case, more than 1M per year, but im a full living oil rig worker, this means that theres no helicopter or ship that brings me back to my house every other week, I usually spend 6 months straight then 2 weeks off and I do another 6 months, no days off, no schedule, pure work.
There must be decent recreational facilities on these outfits. How many hours a day do you work? May I ask how the drills go from vertical to horizontal under ground?
What kind of watch do you wear at work?
hats of to you sir respect
You make $1M per year?
@tikitavi7120 Facilities are ok, just the basics, I usually work anything between 85 to 95 hours a week, an average of 13 hours a day, no days off, the drilling it's kind of complicated to explain but here you go...
The drillpipe is actually quite flexible. It’s actually rather difficult to drill a perfectly vertical well in most formations without taking a ridiculous amount of time.
Once you get a slant well pointed in the correct direction with the proper BHA, bottom hole assembly and drilling parameters: weight on bit, flow rate rpm and more it may track that direction with little to no intervention
Horizontal is not that difficult. It is hard on the drillpipe. In especially abrasive formations, it can drastically reduce the life of the drillpipe. For horizontal wells, as long as you have a vertical section above the horizontal section, the weight of the pipe in the vertical section pushes the pipe forward in the horizontal section
@rsstnnr76 I do, 1M it's not a lot compared to what the executives make. Actually on this world of craziness 1M it's not that much
I was one of the engineers who helped in the design and material selection of this rig. The weather was absolute hell. Most of the world has zero idea how powerful mother nature can truly be.
No way! I was the lead engineer on this project.
@@ShahyadG No Way! I was the lead engineer on this project.
@@jakobmuniz238 I remember you. You worked for that Steve guy.
Your lying in the internet has gotten out of control Paul.
Ron? Is that you! How yeah been you little reach around master you! Still tuggin away without consent? Or did the last reach around rehab finally work?
Brings back a lot of memories worked on a few offshore rigs surprised they didn't show the living quarters
how are they?
@@B2InFeRnoIcedAxeminecraftI bet they’re pretty nice 🙂
Yeah, thats what I was hoping to see.
@@B2InFeRnoIcedAxeminecraft
Think prison conditions and divide it by at least two. I've worked on eight or so rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and Trinidad, and it's miserable in my opinion.
EOG Pelican in Trinidad had one operable shower for all the hands, and it was filthy.
I worked on BP Horn Mountain in the GOM when the weather was in the 30's, and there was no hot water to shower.
That's the kind of conditions you can expect to run into. The food is usually awful contrary to what some may say.
That said, some like offshore work because they often work a two week on/two week off schedule. It's not worth it to me. Although I'm glad I got to experience what it's like, I'm never working offshore ever again unless the pay was for all 24 hours of the day at quintuple my normal rate.
The food sounds horrible and boring - no free time spaces to train or have fun : very Russian . Note they did not show the accommodations - bound to be miserable .
The fact that they built the columns into the water and then just plopped the rest of the rig on top is unreal
@Casteeyo... The romans did it first, concrete columns on their shipyards docks and ports
Another reason the rig will pump wastewater back into empied cavities is not only to dispose of it, but to also prevent the empty cavities from collapsing and destabilizing the seafloor.
two birds one stone
Makes sense
Isn't it to pressurize the remaining hydrocarbon for further extraction as well?
Makes sense. The ocean surface would be all pot holed and bumpy from the uneven ocean floor. That's why the rest of the ocean is perfectly flat.
It is not a big hole full of oil. The oil and gas is trapped in porous rock. It’s not a lake of oil
Engineers are not appreciated enough this is an example of sheer engineering masterclass. I cannot even imagine the careful planning and execution that went into this colossal machinery.
The thought process behind the design is completely mind-blowing
That not too hard, since all physics and chemical simulation do in computer
@@teknosql4740 you do realize computer is not enough to simulate all physics IRL right?
@@edamb6044 no, simulating multi physics and chemical reaction on building like this is not hard for computer, especially on modern computer farm, and you need to know all modern facility that need precision design always using computer design
Lol yeah sure@@teknosql4740
Lol thats what I said
What an amazing feat of engineering and design. Thanks for bringing this to us.
The engineering that goes into something like that is amazing
@billymadison4903, yea nuclear power plants are also pretty amazing facilities.
Too bad humanity are too busy killing themselves for who gets what, and how much
makes my brain hurt just thinking how much math is involved lol
It's absolutely mindblowing what we humans can achieve once we decide to work together.
s/can/could/
To dig out fossil fuels, causing climate change and funding war. Imagine what else the brains could achieve
On an individual level we are not all that intelligent. Where our strength has been is collective intelligence, collective knowledge, sociability, and building on that every generation through teaching. The better we have gotten at working together the more civilization has progressed.
It is literally what separated us from the rest of the animal kingdom.
You mean, when we are motivated by greed and wealth, right? There are no volunteers working here.
@@michaelg7601 Which is another reason why war and xenophobia are detrimental to our species, if humans could act as one single entity there is nothing we could not achieve together. Nationalism and patriotism are archaic traits, we should all just be proud to be human.
The sheer scale and complexity of the thing ... 😯
I've been on 3 regular sized rigs as a temp worker and the absolutely blew my mind with the size and scale. This rig could prob fit those 3 in it easy. Amazes me how they can FLOAT something like that on the ocean and set it down on the legs.
Imagine what we could do if we used these resources for saving our planet, instead of destroying it for profit. Or for researching how we can improve our political systems. But no, we rather stare in awe at a giant piece of metal sticking out of the ocean.
@@nilsp9426shut the fuck up
@@nilsp9426amen!
Mankind builds incredible things like this and yet we have war.
Somebody has to destroy it all eventually. Job security?
Well oil is pretty important if you want fuel for your war...
@@DerechteAlbrechtDürer Yet, you enjoy their products immensely on a daily basis, no? Or, should I say, of every minute of every day sort of basis?
why do u think they invest so much $$$ into it... same reason we have war
War is the driving factor for almost every industrial achievement.
Human engineering will never cease to amaze me
selective engineering......
Amazin engineering. I was hoping to see the living quarters, offices, bathrooms, shops, all of it, not only the cafeteria. I'm guessing it has a rec room and maybe a cinema. Oh well, still, great to see this bit. Thanks for posting it.
No, you were right, this was pure bait N switch. Screw this guy.
Yeah, really wanted to see the whole thing.
The outer structure is amazing as well but it's like a floating city, let me see the "city parts".
@@idontthinkso666bait and switch? He showed us everything that’s actually important
@xBluesy you could argue those areas are just as important considering they lives there months at a time, even years..
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I love watching this type of educational videos that you cannot imagine how these gigantic inventions are created. Thank you RUclips I am in awe to believe the imaginables.
Definitely props to South Korea for being able to design and assemble such an exceptionally complex structure like this. Just watching them put those huge pieces together and imagining the work going into the designs, it's kind of like a space ship. If they keep pushing the limits we're gonna really start looking like aliens ourselves.
Bíg miss! Show the living quarters, Exercise area and how do the employees live
Just to build the stuff to build the RIG IS INCREDIBLE.
45 second unskippable ad? RUclips is getting out of pocket.
The engineering magic humans can do always blows my mind. Too bad we waste so much away with wars....
😞IKR, SMDH.
I tottaly agree what a wonderful world it would be
War has helped us advance at an incredible speed 🤷♂️.. wouldn’t have most of our tech at home if the government didn’t spend crazy amounts on tech for the military
@@abrahamcamacho7516The same technology could have been developed without war
. If that money went directly to science, we would advance much much much faster. @@abrahamcamacho7516
That was awesome. I salute the rig workers in all capacities.
It is truly astounding what humankind can build.
Mankind you pc follower
Aint no women designing this lmaoo
Mankind, you simp
This is wild… it’s like space age technology. Whoever came up with this idea and how to build them are crazy.
It's like a massive Tonka toy. Incredible! Thanks for this.
Some of the finest people you ever meet. Work on the rigs for years in the Gulf of Mexico.
right from the opening shots you can tell this thing is something different. Incredible.
Definitely the best thing I’ve seen on RUclips in a while.
Holy crap, I agree. Absolutely amazing I cannot fathom the engineering that goes into projects like this.
Lets give this industry some credit for keeping us safe and warm
Men built, and maintain this. Total respect.
everything you see was carefully engineered, thank you engineers..
I worked at a factory in the UK (Schlumberger) that made a lot of drill bits for these Shell oil was their main customer, this was 20 years ago they were around £40k then I imagine a lot more now. The diamonds were industrial & pressed on small machines around the factory
diamonds aren't actually expensive or rare...they're common. Jewelry diamonds are only made expensive by a few Cartels controlling the rate at which they are put on the market.
After over 100 years, Schlumberger have re-named themselves to SLB, just to confuse the likes of Greta Thumberg 😃
Plus they own Cameron, the company name on the chair in the Drill Shack
Meh, uk sucks anyway
@@rvh1999why did you say this? lol
What I saw was an incredibly complex "machine/community" which was very clean. Clearly, many talented people were needed to make this vast machine.
How many engineers it take to design this amazing contraption.
About the same amount of engineers it takes to change a light bulb. 😉
3 or 4
thousand
I don’t even understand the engineering on this. Brilliant
So cool got interested in oil rigs after playing "Still Wakes the Deep" :P
Yah same here, awesome game. And seemed pretty accurate in terms of engineering.
Same here!
You should watch the movie “Deepwater Horizon” staring Mark Wahlburg, super good and interesting movie
The engineering that goes into designing this and the logistics to assemble it are absolutely mind blowing. Theres a bridge that goes across a frozen sea (i think in the bearing sea but might just be a concept and not built, its a been a while but i THINK its operational) Thats just as mind boggling having to deal with heavy winds and flowing ice.
100% agree. I am not mechanical in nature however, I could not imagine the amount of concentrated efforts of different fields to create something as advanced as this.
"When you approach the platform by air, you realise that it really looks like a bird"
Me: scratching my head 🤔Have you ever seen a bird? 😂
Mans dominion over the earth and its fullness.
I'm a design engineer and m marvelling at the complexity.
I’m not a design engineer, but I’m marveling at the sheer ingenuity at complexity of such engineering. It’s overwhelmingly awesome.
@@NotLikeUs17 the scale of operation is also huge, everything is fascinting around oil rigs somehow😅
I just watched the movie "The Burning Sea" yesterday and now this pops up in my RUclips recommendations!?! Big brother is watching every keystroke! Great video, by the way. I would like to know the process they go thru to decide where to place a rig of this size.
i cant even imagine how this structure was even thought of being built
white people
I know, where do you even start?
lots of underwater scuba welding@@lynneanthony168
Acid bro
Humans are so creative and can build anything 😊
As a lifelong welder, hat tip to the engieers that come up with this stuff! You are awesome!🙋
Right on
Nice
Too many emergency systems that have never been pressed, never been used... If it costs the company millions to shut down for a few hours, are the emergency systems trusted to be tested and maintained?
Good question
Watch deepwater horizon
Would love to meet some of the design engineers and draftsmen who worked on this project. Engineering on an insane scale.
Thats fascinating they can build something like that in the middle of the sea.....just crazy
And yet they can't figure out how to time traffic lights together in cities
I must be really high, because I’m absolutely blown away by the engineering behind this.high or not very, very cool.
INCREDIBLE QUALITY AND DOCUMENTATION!!
14:04 since pumping out oil leaves empty spaces under the ground, filling it up with useless industrial wastes like dirt, broken debris or rocks from the drilling to prevent the empty space from collapsing is not a bad idea.
“Empty spaces?” Like giant caves, you think? No. More like the little pores in your kitchen sponge.
Getting a boat and going to one of these oil rigs is probably the best way to survive the zombie apocalypse. These things have hundreds of employees. That means enough food is delivered to last those hundreds of employees for weeks at a time. Mad supplies. Imagine having a group of 4 with the supplies 240 people need
Imagine just eating the other 3 people instead, despite having 4,000 cans of SPAM.
if you're in an apocalypse, how do you think the helicopters and ships are going to bring supplies out? why on earth would you want to be isolated in the middle of the ocean. can't even fish from that rig, once food runs out, you're eating your neighbor
Well cooked arn't ya?
@@cwr8618 No new supplies would be coming. Goal is to find a place with enough stored, stockpiled food whilst being close to somewhere you can get food. Supplies initially intended for 300 people will last a dozen man group for years. Supplementing that with fishing. Also at 2:51 we see the distance from the lowest part of the rig to the water. You can easily put some poles up there with line going deep enough in.
@@nukiesduke6868might be enough food for a bit and possibly fish from there, and they said their desal plant was high tech. but no freedom to roam or expectations the resources would be available or interested in flying or boating to that rig to save anyone amidst their own apocalypse.
This is truly mind boggling. The engineering on some many different disciplines and to coordinate all the different pieces of machinery is so astoundingly impressive.
What an amazing feat of engineering and design
I found this video right after finishing still wakes the deep 😮
I cannot even begin to comprehend this structure or how it was even made...
very interesting to watch though, thank you
After watching so many oil-rig disasters this was a really great look inside when things aren't going so wrong!
Imagine how intelligent the guy who designed it should be... wow....
People who built it... im speechless...
Halfway through the manufacturing montage I realized my mouth was wide open. Literally jaw dropping.
I want one.
Right? Can you imagine trying to engineer one of these beasts????
Imagine war not existing and all our combined ingenuity going towards these kind of projects. That milestone in humanity's journey towards maturity is likely one of the final hurdles to deep space travel and colonisation.
War drives innovation
Thanks, Alexey, another great video. What would bother me are the low ceilings. In future models, 3m would be good.
What a marvel of ingenuity and engineering
Off shore work is tough and challenging but the rewards more than make up for it.
If you are a young person running with the wrong crowd then this type of work will be perfect to get you away from that crowd before permanent damage is done. once you have a permanent conviction on your record you will likely be excluded from this type of work as well as even many types of regular work..
This was astounding to me, honestly. When the narrator said, "this facility basically represents almost all human knowledge about engineering, science, and materials" I did not think that was hyperbole. 45 wells , oil or gas doesn't matter, gas turbines to power itself (with the gas it extracts), it really is an example of humanity being able to adapt to almost any environment, given enough time.
Humans are amazing. If elephants or dolphins had opposable thumbs, they'd do this too. If octopi had opposable thumbs, they'd be gods.
Wow...extremely impressive engineering. Wonders never cease to amaze me.
It's actually hard to believe this only costs one billion, I'd guess the price would be closer to 5-10 billion
Well, if it were made by union labor in the states the 10 billion would be accurate.
@@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh Very good point.
@@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh lmfao how do not know unions already been used.
@@Cosmicmonkeyman This was made in Russia and Korea. Don't know don't care if Korean or Russian unions were used, do know that US unions were not used thus the price and timelines are not egregiously inflated. There is a reason that we went from the ship building capital of the world to less than 1% of ship building and almost all of that is due to government requirements to buy domestic for certain things not because it's in the least bit competitive. Unions with mob connections and other connections to the Decorate parties are corrupt as fug and destroy domestic production.
It would have cost way more than a billion I’d imagine your figures are more the right ballpark though closer to 5
Iam getting major alien vibes from this location lol.
Very impressive!!
Unreal how much money is in oil.
Lets see the ancient civilizations do something like this
You mean like pyramids?
They already did, but we regular people are not told about it
Incredible documentary sir - well done - Thank You 👍👍👍
Documentaries like this are the real black gold of RUclips - excuse the pun! 😉
it's so incredible what humans can make!!!
Wow that's Amazing this job looks very complex you really have to know what you're doing in this kind of work 💯 God bless their Souls who work in this profession 🙏🙌👍
It's not a floating city its a PLATFORM and is fixed to the sea bed
Holy shit, this channel is insane.I always wanted a channel showcasing all thing science, medicine, engineering, mathematics etc. - The power grid
- Heart, Brain, Orthopedic
Surgery
- The Electric Grid
- Mega Machines
- Bridges
- Petrochemical Plants
-Nuclear Reactors
-Rockets
- Fighter jets and Carriers
- Communication Systems
Would all make amazing science topics.
Thanks for the kind words. We will try to post more videos to please our subscribers. Stay with us ;)
Very informative, thanks for uploading. 👍
Wow we have some very,very smart people out there especially when it comes to the engineering of a project like this.
O worked offshore in the high Arctic. Around the north pole. We set the rig up 30 feet of ice. It was basically a Land rig. But our BOP system sat on the ocean floor depth of 2000 ft. We flew everything in on huge cargo plane C130 Hercules 144 loads. Took roughly five weeks to rig it up. The nearest tree was 2500 miles south. Ice as far the eyes can see. Would you believe we had Ravens that far North. And polar bears. Lol
Great job to the highly skilled Korean workers who built this!
Another prideful moment of quality Russian manufacture, made in Korea, lul.
How many engineers it take to design this amazing contraption.. INCREDIBLE QUALITY AND DOCUMENTATION!!.
Okay, riddle me this. How is this channel called, "Science" but the thumbnail is obviously showing a platform which is NOT the ones shown at 0:27?
Shut up and watch the show.
this is the best of Human engineering.
Pretty damn amazing!
Amazing engineering. I have always been stunned by russian and former soviet engineering and general building skills.
Taking that top section on to where it needed to go was probably the most stressful situation I can possibly think of.
Brings back a lot of memories worked on a few offshore rigs surprised they didn't show the living quarters
I was hoping on seeing a segment on living quarters, that would have rounded the whole thing off.
Yeah, this guy sucks. Total bait N switch crap.
@@idontthinkso666 i thought the video was great, even if it missed a few parts. you should try making a video and see how it goes
@@idontthinkso666 I feel like he actually stole this video and voice overed it. The guy in the video and his voice are saying completely different things...
I was one of the chief engineers who built this 6 storey oil rig. It took us 21 hours to finish it. 21.
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It's an amazing marvel!
Incredible work of engineering. How i missed offshore back in the day. Keep safe everyone.
Good video with a terrible mistake - Oil and Gas is not contained in the pictured cavities (that the video shows a Caves!) it is stored within the pores of the rock (porosity) and flow (at least on conventional reservoirs) through the interconnection of those pores (permeability).
Thank you for the additional and corection information. Appreciate it❤
Dude, people are stupid. You can't expect them to understand that. People with a 5th grade education can't understand geology. C'mon man!
Yep. Many people make that mistake. Partly from the eco-nuts who complain about fracturing to increase permeability.
WOW , Pretty sweet Video, I worked on Drilling Rigs in the late 1970's on land in the Bakken oil field of Montana and North Dakota they were no where near what this rig is. I'd say were in the stone age compared to this rig.
Wow. Mind officially blown! 😂 unbelievable
Bravo bravo 👏👏 I. Was always Fascinated with OFFSHORE OIL RIGS PLATFORMS I THANK YOU ! They are very very Brave Employee !
Aliens must have a hand on this one.
Creating the schematics alone before the engineering for those schematics is fuckin insane.
This is amazing engineering, now let’s apply that ingenuity and know how to things that help us live on Earth instead of destroying it!!