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Eemshaven, Groningen, The Netherlands
Saipem 7000 is the world's second largest crane vessel, after the Thialf. The crane radius of the Saipem 7000 grants a lifting capability of 14,000 tonnes at 42 meters while the Thialf can lift 14,200 tonnes at 31.2 meters. It is owned by the oil and gas industry contractor Saipem S.p.A. ( Wikipedia)
I didn't take too many pics on the way out to Las Cruces but as luck would have it we pulled off I-40 in McLean, Texas looking for gas and found the Silverton Oil and Gas gas station along a piece of the original Rt. 66. The early morning sunlight made it irresistible and we stopped for a few shots. The gas station was an original one built in 1929.
I don't process too many HDR type images and hardly ever get one to turn out the way I want. This was blended from four images processed in Lightroom and Photoshop. If the B&W version shows a timeless quality, I think this version has a bit of a surreal quality, perhaps the color of the truck? It's also the second processing attempt, the first was very saturated and the pumps and truck glowed with color. I put that one aside and opted for a MUCH lighter touch. I was pleased with the way this one turned out.
Oil and gas exports have since the 1990's brought some prosperity to Papua New Guinea. This is a view of some houses on stilts over water in the capital of Port Moresby.
I didn't take too many pics on the way out to Las Cruces but as luck would have it we pulled off I-40 in McLean, Texas looking for gas and found the Silverton Oil and Gas gas station along a piece of the original Rt. 66. The early morning sun rise light made it irresistible and we stopped for a few shots. The gas station was an original one built in 1929.
Back to Alpine Texas for another Respect Big Bend (respectbigbend.org/) workshop with our Stakeholder Advisory Group. Flew thru Midland and caught a glimpse of the energy colony that the area between Midland & Odessa has become - amazing to see. In case you are thinking those are houses - no they are oil and gas well pads.
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Beckham County is a county located on the western border of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2010 census, the population was 22,119.[1] Its county seat is Sayre.[2] Founded upon statehood in 1907, Beckham County was named for J. C. W. Beckham, who was Governor of Kentucky[3] and the first popularly elected member of the United States Senate from Kentucky. Beckham County comprises the Elk City, OK Micropolitan Statistical Area.
The county economy has been based mainly on farming and raising livestock. The major crops have been cotton, wheat, alfalfa, kafir, milo maize, and broomcorn. Mineral industries have occasionally been significant. In the early 20th century, there was some salt production. A limited amount of oil and gas production began in the 1920s 136
Last in the brief series of northern prairie reptiles is the Greater Short-horned Lizard. The only species of lizard found in Saskatchewan and Alberta, it is limited to about ten scattered locations and considered endangered in Canada, mostly due to human intrusion and industrial development (oil and gas). Thankfully, the population in Grasslands Park is fully protected.
I had not seen one for years, so it was very exciting to notice a sudden furtive movement at my feet while walking the rim of a coulee. And there it was!
They're small; this one was about 4 inches in length. Due to its girth, I think it's a female; males are more narrowly built, and tend to be shorter. Once again, I found myself on my belly with the macro lens, trying not to stick myself with nearby cactus thorns, trying to convince a reptile that I was a benign monster and not a predator. Haha, good luck with that! But it did pose nicely for about 100 shots before I left it in peace. Total time spent with this critter (according to EXIF data): 15 minutes.
This is an appropriate day to offer a shot of a lizard, not because it is the 147th anniversary of Custer's well-deserved defeat at the Little Bighorn, but because this morning I am going on a lizard walk with some friends and a local biologist. That's one advantage of living next to a national park: research and conservation projects are ongoing, and I get to meet experts in various scientific disciplines. I might even retain some of the information they so generously share.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Oil and Gas supply vessels sitting at anchor (or on Thrusters) off Aberdeen Beach.
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Taken at Dublin Bay, in the background are the chimneys of Poolbeg power station, generating electricity in Ireland since 1903 by burning oil and gas. In sharp contrast are the sailboats in the foreground, operating on clean, renewable wind energy.
Eni UK, the company which owns and operates the oil and gas fields in Liverpool Bay, is currently completing some activity on the wells which connect to the oil and gas fields under Liverpool Bay.
This activity includes decommissioning the majority (around 55) of wells as they reach the end of their production life.
Alongside this well decommissioning activity is the need to convert around 11 wells so they can be reused to store carbon dioxide in the reservoirs, as part of the wider HyNet Carbon Capture and Storage project.
This project will allow carbon dioxide emissions from hard to abate industry in the north west of the UK to be stored in depleted gas reservoirs under Liverpool Bay, as part of the UK’s Net Zero target.
Aberdeenshire (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It takes its name from the old County of Aberdeen which had substantially different boundaries. Modern Aberdeenshire includes all of what was once Kincardineshire, as well as part of Banffshire. The old boundaries are still officially used for a few purposes, namely land registration and lieutenancy. Aberdeenshire Council is headquartered at Woodhill House, in Aberdeen, making it the only Scottish council whose headquarters are located outside its jurisdiction. Aberdeen itself forms a different council area (Aberdeen City). Aberdeenshire borders onto Angus and Perth and Kinross to the south, Highland and Moray to the west and Aberdeen City to the east. Traditionally, it has been economically dependent upon the primary sector (agriculture, fishing, and forestry) and related processing industries. Over the last 40 years, the development of the oil and gas industry and associated service sector has broadened Aberdeenshire's economic base, and contributed to a rapid population growth of some 50% since 1975. Its land represents 8% of Scotland's overall territory. It covers an area of 6,313 square kilometres
Gas flare :- At oil and gas extraction sites, gas flares are similarly used for a variety of startup, maintenance, testing, safety, and emergency purposes. In a practice known as production flaring, they may also be used to dispose of large amounts of unwanted associated petroleum gas, possibly throughout the life of an oil well ( from WIKI )
A male Pacific Golden-plover poses on an isolated talus slope in northern Alaska in gorgeous breeding plumage. These shorebirds journey thousands of miles from their wintering grounds in the Southern Hemisphere to the Alaskan tundra to breed. Two years ago, I was able to visit the tundra, and it remains to this day my favorite place on Earth. There is something about the eerie isolation, subtle elegance and astounding vastness of the tundra that draws me. Unfortunately, the greedy construction of oil and gas pipelines threaten the very existence of this magical, pristine terrain and its unique flora and fauna.
Bergen, Norway
Bergen might be a major hub for all the cruise ships and the fjord tour boats but it's still a working harbour for the oil and gas industry that Norway has profited and invested well from with its Sovereign Fund one of the biggest in the world.
On our second night, I wanted to shoot the wooden houses of Bryggen with sunset scheduled for around 9:30pm. It didn’t really work for the houses but the sky lit up over the boats moored at the mouth of the harbour so why not…
Jack-up rig platforms at Dundee docks which offers decommissioning and refurbishment services to the North Sea oil and gas industry.
The vessel in this image is the UKD ORCA which is a Hopper Dredger built in 2010 and currently sailing under the flag of the United Kingdom.
Here's another oldie from this cool one time and the caption I wrote at the time for RP:
Alaska Railroad GP40-2 3004shoves a load of pipe up to the end of track on a brand new industrial spur in South Anchorage. The spur is over 1500 feet long and connects via a south facing switch that branches off the north end of the runaround track tucked in just south of CP1072 off the Coastal Siding. It was constructed through fallow swamp land by Balfour Beatty and is the culmination of a dream of Unique Machine’s founder to have direct on site rail service.
Unique Machine is a veteran home grown Alaska Company that became part of the giant Sumitomo Corp. in 2004. They are a long time ARR customer receiving pipe loads from the lower 48 via rail barge service. Historically these pipe loads were unloaded at the ARR's transload yard in downtown and trucked to Unique's mid-town site for threading and final prep before delivery to the oil and gas fields statewide. Unique's growing business necessitated a move to a new and larger facility that was specifically situated to permit direct rail access.
This little train is being shoved down to end of track to be placed on display for Unique's grand opening celebration the following day. It is very rewarding to see a new spur built in this modern era specifically for carload freight business, and seems to be a tiny reversal of the trend that finds abandoned spurs leading through the trees to truck served warehouses littered across Anchorage (and every other American city).
However, in an odd twist to this story, some 18 months later Unique has yet to receive a revenue load at their facility and continues to partake of ARR's transload services. Someday this will change, but for now the train you see here is the only one ever to traverse this trackage.
**Addendum: to the best of my knowledge other than this train there has never been anything on this spur in the more than dozen years since I shot this!
Anchorage, Alaska
Sunday June 28, 2009
Sanderlings gathered on a rock (left) with Gulls and Oyster Catchers and other Sanderlings, while the Oil and Gas Supply Vessels wait off-shore, Aberdeen Beach Scotland.
One of the loveliest Sunrises I've ever witnessed this was about shot No 15 with what was then my Brand New first ever Digital SLR the Eos 5D in 2008. Photo taken from the 7th Floor of Salvesen Tower, Blaikeys Quay, Aberdeen Scotland.
This photo has been posted a few times before in different guises, this version has had the Bow of the Normand Progress (Left) re-instated using the Content Aware fill and though if you look closely it's not accurate it does complete the picture.
Maine Northern Railway is working on re-supplying a large oil and gas dealer on the Presque Isle Maine Industrial Park.
These are tough times for the oil and gas industry. In an effort to reduce operating costs, some companies have replaced high cost human technicians with grizzly bears.
According to the HR department of one of the leading producers, there are several advantages to employing the bears. First off, they are quite intelligent and simple valve adjustments are well within their scope. Secondly, they are so strong that they are able to adjust the ball and gate valves without tools. Finally, they haven't even heard of unions, so labor costs should continue to be lower for the foreseeable future. The bears typically work for moose steaks and honey.
Also, the grizzlies seem to actually enjoy the job - remember when HR departments actually cared (or at least pretended to) that people got some satisfaction on the job?
The one troubling aspect is that the companies aren't training these new employees to conform with the old tried and true safety standards. No hard hats, hi-vis vests, safety glasses or safety boots? Well, given the current safety records of some of these companies, the bears won't do any worse.
(This photo was previously uploaded a couple of years ago but I did an awful job on the post editing and decided to try again. This one is pretty much out of the camera).
Aberdeen Harbour the Oil and Gas Capital of Europe. Taken from Waterloo Quay looking over the basin to Blaikeys Quay.
Low resolution Watermarked upload, for a full size copy of the file please contact Terry Eve Photography via Flickr Mail.
Fraserburgh Harbour is situated in Aberdeenshire in the North East corner of Scotland and is ideally positioned for the fishing grounds of the North and East of Scotland, as well as being in close proximity to the North Sea oil and gas fields and the emerging offshore renewables market.
Mud or cement silo with unidentified oil support vessel possibly some kind of survey vessel judging by the pods on the mast(?).
Brent Charlie dates from 1978 and was producing oil and gas from the North Sea until 2021. It is now beached and being scrapped. Times change - this shot shows part of Seaton nuclear power station in the background, and also some blades for wind turbines stacked up before being deployed in the North Sea. I like the lifeboats still handing there, possibly little use now.
Sunset in Liverpool Bay.
The company which owns and operates the oil and gas fields in Liverpool Bay, is currently completing some activity on the wells which connect to the oil and gas fields under Liverpool Bay.
This activity includes decommissioning the majority (around 55) of wells as they reach the end of their production life.
Alongside this well decommissioning activity is the need to convert around 11 wells so they can be reused to store carbon dioxide in the reservoirs, as part of the wider HyNet Carbon Capture and Storage project.
This project will allow carbon dioxide emissions from hard to abate industry in the north west of the UK to be stored in depleted gas reservoirs under Liverpool Bay, as part of the UK’s Net Zero target.
HyNet is a hydrogen supply and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project which will reduce carbon dioxide emissions from industry and support economic growth in the north west of England and north Wales.
The work is intended to take around three and a half years until full completion.
During this time the Valaris Norway will be moved to several different locations within Liverpool Bay.
with the Global Climate Strike, March 25th 2022
"This climate strike will be taking place while a war is being fought in the middle of Europe. We stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian people who are suffering first and foremost under the attack by Putin and his Russian leadership. And we stand in solidarity with Russian civil society, which is advocating for peace. In these times, it has become painfully clear that fossil energy is not only ruining the climate but fuelling wars, too. This shows us how dangerous our dependence on fossil fuels truly is. While the German Federal Government and the European Union have issued sanctions against Russia - the European Union still pays 600 million Euro to Russia every day. We have to end this hypocrisy immediately and switch to 100% renewable energies.
Going back to coal or nuclear power would only intensify the climate crisis and interfere with the energy transition. The rally against the climate crisis cannot wait for more peaceful times. On the contrary, the most recent report of the IPCC shows that the dramatically increasing acceleration of global warming is threatening to intensify worldwide conflicts. Already, about half of the world’s population are suffering the consequences of the climate crisis,especially those in the Global South who did not cause it. Therefore, we demand global solidarity and climate justice! We will not accept empty promises - the German government must increase their budget for international climate financing.
The German government must massively accelerate the eco-friendly energy transition now - the current plans are not enough! Additionally, we need socially equitable responses to rising energy prices, especially for the poorest of our society. In an extreme situation like this, extraordinary action is needed. This includes a rapid investment program for 100 % renewables, for saving energy, for the heating transition and for a socially equitable traffic transition. All our efforts must be geared towards a climate-just world: without fossil energies and without war. Together, we raise our voices for climate justice, peace, human rights and democracy.
On Friday, March 25, we will take to the streets together with Fridays for Future. The protest and the demands of the students are vital to maintain the 1.5 degree limit. As climate activists, environmental, development, agricultural, human rights and social organisations, we stand with Fridays for Future in the global climate strike.
Through decentralised, corona-safe protests across the country, on March 25 people of all ages are demanding:
Stop Coal, Oil and Gas - Stop the War!"
(FFF - Germany)
From the heart of our first Tulip / Tulpe (Tulipa) 2022
in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
If you love tulips, have a look at my personal Tulip Collection.
The Saipem 7000 is the world's third largest semi-submersible crane vessel, after the SSCV Sleipnir and the SSCV Thialf. It is owned by the oil and gas industry contractor Saipem S.p.A.
Each crane is capable of lifting up to 7,000 tonnes at 40 m lift radius using the main hook. The auxiliary hook capacities are 1st Auxiliary 2,500 tonnes at 75 m radius and 2nd Auxiliary 900 tonnes at 115 m. The two cranes are capable of a tandem lift of 14,000 tonnes.
To the right of the image, Tantallon castle, on the East Lothian coast, is visible.
Mamiya 645j with portrait lens
Arista 100
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taken while riding home from work from San Francisco to Oakland over the Golden Gate Bridge, then the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge
Here's another oldie and the caption I wrote at the time for RP:
A yard crew with a single Alaska Railroad GP40-2 shoves a load of pipe into a brand new industrial spur in South Anchorage. The spur is over 1500 feet long and connects via a south facing switch that branches off the north end of the runaround track tucked in just south of CP1072 off the Coastal Siding. It was constructed through fallow swamp land by Balfour Beatty and is the culmination of a dream of Unique Machine’s founder to have direct on site rail service. Unique Machine is a veteran home grown Alaska Company that became part of the giant Sumitomo Corp. in 2004. They are a long time ARR customer receiving pipe loads from the lower 48 via rail barge service.
Historically these pipe loads were unloaded at the ARR's transload yard in downtown and trucked to Unique's mid-town site for threading and final prep before delivery to the oil and gas fields statewide. Unique's growing business necessitated a move to a new and larger facility that was specifically situated to permit direct rail access. This little train is being shoved down to end of track to be placed on display for Unique's grand opening celebration the following day.
It is very rewarding to see a new spur built in this modern era specifically for carload freight business, and seems to be a tiny reversal of the trend that finds abandoned spurs leading through the trees to truck served warehouses littered across Anchorage (and every other American city). However, in an odd twist to this story, some 18 months later Unique has yet to receive a revenue load at their facility and continues to partake of ARR's transload services. Someday this will change, but for now the train you see here is the only one ever to traverse this trackage.
**Addendum: to the best of my knowledge other than this train there has never been anything on this spur in the more than dozen years since I shot this!
Anchorage, Alaska
Sunday June 28, 2009
Fraserburgh Harbour is situated in Aberdeenshire in the North East corner of Scotland and is ideally positioned for the fishing grounds of the North and East of Scotland, as well as being in close proximity to the North Sea oil and gas fields and the emerging offshore renewables market.
It was VERY windy, so the cloud streaking was naturally accentuated and the tops of the trees blurred.
Aberdeenshire (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It takes its name from the old County of Aberdeen which had substantially different boundaries. Modern Aberdeenshire includes all of what was once Kincardineshire, as well as part of Banffshire. The old boundaries are still officially used for a few purposes, namely land registration and lieutenancy. Aberdeenshire Council is headquartered at Woodhill House, in Aberdeen, making it the only Scottish council whose headquarters are located outside its jurisdiction. Aberdeen itself forms a different council area (Aberdeen City). Aberdeenshire borders onto Angus and Perth and Kinross to the south, Highland and Moray to the west and Aberdeen City to the east. Traditionally, it has been economically dependent upon the primary sector (agriculture, fishing, and forestry) and related processing industries. Over the last 40 years, the development of the oil and gas industry and associated service sector has broadened Aberdeenshire's economic base, and contributed to a rapid population growth of some 50% since 1975. Its land represents 8% of Scotland's overall territory. It covers an area of 6,313 square kilometres
Before the oil and gas industry took off Houston was a major rail hub. I found this train stopped on New Year's day. 4400 horsepower times three and an endless line of tank cars.
Aberdeen Harbour the Oil and Gas Capital of Europe.
Low resolution Watermarked upload, for a full size copy of the file please contact Terry Eve Photography via Flickr Mail.
The Hutton (Conoco, North Sea oil and gas field) Tension Leg Platform hull, the first offshore structure of its kind in the world, wanly reflecting the setting winter sun, at its long term anchorage in the Cromarty Firth, as a wintry squall comes in from the North. The remains of the Hi-Fab fabrication yard at Nigg, where the hull was built, is in sight, and the McDermott yard where the (now removed) topsides structure came from, is a few miles hence at Ardersier. The topsides was recycled on another petrochemical development in Russia, after the original deployment in the North Sea, and the hull on transfer from Russia to Mexico for a redeployment modifications in 2009, was cold stacked in its present location after the contract fell through.
Sunset in Liverpool Bay.
The company which owns and operates the oil and gas fields in Liverpool Bay, is currently completing some activity on the wells which connect to the oil and gas fields under Liverpool Bay.
This activity includes decommissioning the majority (around 55) of wells as they reach the end of their production life.
Alongside this well decommissioning activity is the need to convert around 11 wells so they can be reused to store carbon dioxide in the reservoirs, as part of the wider HyNet Carbon Capture and Storage project.
This project will allow carbon dioxide emissions from hard to abate industry in the north west of the UK to be stored in depleted gas reservoirs under Liverpool Bay, as part of the UK’s Net Zero target.
HyNet is a hydrogen supply and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project which will reduce carbon dioxide emissions from industry and support economic growth in the north west of England and north Wales.
The work is intended to take around three and a half years until full completion.
During this time the Valaris Norway will be moved to several different locations within Liverpool Bay.
Actually let's be honest: all the luck is gone in Nisku, Alberta. Sometimes I'll run out there. It's a wasteland of closed down fab shops. Occasionally some sad security guard with an old dog will peel out of some empty parking lot and tail me, in a car, with big letters that say: SECURITY.
It's like the OJ Simpson Bronco chase...but slower and sadder. If that's even possible.
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