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The Derwent River in Hobart, Tasmania.
The drill rig (the "Ocean Monarch") in the background is massive - not a usual feature in the river. It was used in the film "Armageddon" is undergoing maintenance.
The yachts in the foreground are the usual summer scene, except the yacht with the red spinnaker - this is a Sydney to Hobart race yacht heading for the finish line (I took the photo just over a week ago).
A truck mounted water well drilling rig at a new home site in our neighborhood. Hagerstown is a city near the Appalachian Mountains in western Maryland. Print size 8x10 inches. HTT.
A truck mounted water well drilling rig at a new home site in our neighborhood. Hagerstown is a city near the Appalachian Mountains in western Maryland. Print size 8x10 inches. HWW.
All for a few lousy bucks! OUR national parks and monuments are slowly being taken from us by corporations and politicians to line their pockets.
Imagine rigs like this occupying places like Paradise at Mt. Rainier. Or Yosemite. Grand Canyon. Arches National Park.
ENSCO 120 tied into the drilling platform of Nexen's Golden Eagle platform, continues drilling round the clock creating new wells to increase the production capacity of the new rig.
ENSCO 120 is a jack up rig that can work in depths of up to 400 feet, and drill to 40,000 feet.
Here you can see one of the many productive mining operations of the DSN, specifically for Iron Ore at this site. From bottom to top:
The lowest level L3 is a dark water logged cave system where the DSN built the Ore Transport system to bring ore between rocket sites quickly.
The next level up L2 is where the main Iron deposits are and as such you can see a single boom electro hydraulic jumbo drill rig and of special note, the metal mesh and piles in the wall contain the loose side walls to avoid tunnel collapse.
In L1, you can see an example rocket silo, which has a hydraulic lift to raise the stored rocket into the currently shown loading position, and then fully up to launch above ground.
Finally, above ground you can see the conveyor belt bringing up iron ore, the manual loading of the transport rocket (VERY EFFICIENT FORM OF TRANSPORTATION), and in the background there's a nearby city, a far away rocket launch, and finally a rocket heading to the gravesite of the brave lost miner souls of the DSN - the sun. No better way to be interred than into a bajillion degree energy mass and have your atoms scattered across the universe!
This particular installation is known affectionately to the DSN as the Jean Douglas memorial base.
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The specs for the build called a 20x20 base with no overhang... hence why I went vertical, ending up around 3 ft tall!
This build and many more to come on this account are for the game Decisive Action 4 on Flickr. Come on over and check it out!
One of the many Natural Gas Rigs off the coast of Alabama...specifically, this one is in Mobile Bay just northwest of Fort Morgan, where this photograph was taken. This one (#76A) was owned and operated by Exxon-Mobile. My understanding is that most, if not all, of these rigs scattered throughout the immediate area are no longer in use and now abandoned. However, they are a haven for marine life and have become particularly popular among fishermen looking for that big catch! Regardless, they are are interesting photography subjects...and, the passing Mobile Bay Ferry that carries cars between Fort Morgan Landing & Dauphin Island Landing on the other side of the bay can be seen on the right. This is a much faster alternative than driving all they way up and around Mobile Bay to get to the other side.
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Camera - Nikon D7200 (handheld)
Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom
ISO – 160
Aperture – f/7.1
Exposure – 1/640 second
Focal Length – 300mm
The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6.
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Seadrill West Orion
The West Orion is a 6th generation ultra-deepwater semi-submersible. drilling rig with operational history offshore Brazil.
A truck mounted water well drilling rig at a new home site in our neighborhood. Hagerstown is a city near the Appalachian Mountains in western Maryland (Appalachian's in the background). Print size 8x10 inches.
A view of a pair of Epiroc Smartroc T45 Top Hammer Drill Rigs used in the Newmont Goldcorp Hollinger Open Pit Operations photographed from the newly opened Lookout located in the City of Timmins in Northeastern Ontario Canada
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As the Zuiderdam passed through the protected islands of Norway's west coast, we passed several deep sea oil rigs parked in side inlets.
The West Hercules is owned by Seadrill, a sister rig to the West Aquarius, and has accommodations for 180 people. It has most recently been used for well work in Norway.
The West Hercules can drill to 10,000 feet.
Seadrill's web site says the driller is in Canada so maybe it moved their in the last month?
Seadrill, headquartered in London, operates a versatile fleet of 68 rigs comprising drillships, jack-up, semi-submersibles and tender rigs for operations in shallow to ultra-deepwater areas in both harsh and benign environments.
Permission to use photo.
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25 June 2019
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Hi Ted McGrath
I work for Bassoe Analytics, an open source offshore rig database and analysis platform. We’re part of Bassoe Offshore, a rig brokerage, advisory, and market intelligence company based in Norway.
We’ve seen some of your great photos such as 2016 - CPH-NYC Cruise - Bergen Norway - West Hercules on flickr and would like to know if we could have permission to upload them to the relevant rig’s detail page on Bassoe Analytics and share them with our community on LinkedIn.
Bassoe Analytics is free to use and provides updated market information on the global offshore rig fleet. The platform is also collaborative and allows users to update data and contribute images of offshore drilling rigs.
We would, of course, give proper credit to you as the photographer if you want that.
Here’s an example of how we would use the images – two users have contributed images for this rig (called Ran) www.bassoe.no/analytics/rig-info-786.
Is this something you would allow us to do with your images?
Best,
Erland H. Bassoe
Coober Pedy is a town in northern South Australia, 846 km (526 mi) north of Adelaide on the Stuart Highway. The town is sometimes referred to as the "opal capital of the world" because of the quantity of precious opals that are mined there. Coober Pedy is renowned for its below-ground residences, called "dugouts", which are built in this fashion due to the scorching daytime heat. The name "Coober Pedy" comes from the local Aboriginal term kupa-piti, which means "boys’ waterhole".
The first opal was found in Coober Pedy on 1 February 1915; since then the town has been supplying most of the world's gem-quality opal. Coober Pedy today relies as much on tourism as the opal mining industry to provide the community with employment and sustainability. Coober Pedy has over 70 opal fields and is the largest opal mining area in the world.
Between April and October the weather is very pleasant. Typical of a semi desert climate, the days (16 to 20° C) are mild to warm but the desert nights are cold. From November to March the weather warms up and summer temperatures can range from 35° C to the 45° C in the shade, with occasional dust storms. The annual rainfall in the area is minimal at around 175 mm (5 inches) per annum and can fall during any time of the year.
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Excavator and drilling rig at sunset. Making new road between Arendal and Tvedestrand in Norway. 7 million m3 of solid rock to be relocated!
A busy Firth with a mixture of rigs in for Cold-stacked and some for maintenance with the Seajacks Scylla at Nigg and a Semi Submersible cargo ship the Hawk with the Normand Subsea 7 leaving the Firth
12/06/2015, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, Spain.
A dynamically positioned, semi-submersible, self-propelled, ultra deep-water drilling rig, owned by Diamond Offshore Services Company, Houston, U.S.A.
See also:
Laid up and/or awaiting charter after general repairs.
(As of *10/02/2020*, the rig remains at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with a sale pending for demolition, and which subsequently took place soon afterwards. The scrapping yard is unknown.
It was listed as 'sold for demolition' in a weekly vessel scrapping report around February 2020.)
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Delivered in August 1987 as the 'Polyconfidence' by Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Co., Tamano, Japan, it was, when built, the world's largest offshore, semi-submersible, FLOATEL (floating hotel for offshore workers).
34,000 g.t., as:
'Polyconfidence' to circa 1997, and
'Ocean Confidence' until sold for demolition in 2020.
Based on the Aker H-3.2E offshore design, and being self -propelled, it made its way to the North Sea under its own power, where it was used for accommodating drilling and production workers in the Oseberg oil field.
It had accommodation for 800 persons, with the highest Scandinavian standards and facilities for all onboard.
The FLOATEL was designed to withstand winds of up to 100 knots and a maximum wave-height of 30m; the 12-anchor mooring system was designed for a maximum water-depth of 320m; the dynamic-positioning system was computer controlled for the 8 thrusters.
It was subsequently sold to Diamond Offshore and converted in the American Gulf coast (at vast expense, and with considerable delays) into the drilling rig 'Ocean Confidence', with its design conceived around 1997, & becoming operational as a drilling unit for deep-water tasks in the late 1990s.
Despite the huge overrun in conversion costs, the completed rig became profitable. Her demise was due to Diamond Offshore having overexposure in the offshore markets and could not service its debts. Subsequently having to lay up and/or sell some of its units before succumbing to the inevitable, and being entirely sold to Noble Drilling.
Coober Pedy is a town in northern South Australia, 846 km (526 mi) north of Adelaide on the Stuart Highway. The town is sometimes referred to as the "opal capital of the world" because of the quantity of precious opals that are mined there. Coober Pedy is renowned for its below-ground residences, called "dugouts", which are built in this fashion due to the scorching daytime heat. The name "Coober Pedy" comes from the local Aboriginal term kupa-piti, which means "boys’ waterhole".
The first opal was found in Coober Pedy on 1 February 1915; since then the town has been supplying most of the world's gem-quality opal. Coober Pedy today relies as much on tourism as the opal mining industry to provide the community with employment and sustainability. Coober Pedy has over 70 opal fields and is the largest opal mining area in the world.
Between April and October the weather is very pleasant. Typical of a semi desert climate, the days (16 to 20° C) are mild to warm but the desert nights are cold. From November to March the weather warms up and summer temperatures can range from 35° C to the 45° C in the shade, with occasional dust storms. The annual rainfall in the area is minimal at around 175 mm (5 inches) per annum and can fall during any time of the year.
12/06/2015, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, Spain.
A dynamically positioned, semi-submersible, self-propelled, ultra deep-water drilling rig, owned by Diamond Offshore Services Company, Houston, U.S.A.
See also:
Laid up and/or awaiting charter after general repairs.
(As of *10/02/2020*, the rig remains at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with a sale pending for demolition, and which subsequently took place soon afterwards. The scrapping yard is unknown.
It was listed as 'sold for demolition' in a weekly vessel scrapping report around February 2020.)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Delivered in August 1987 as the 'Polyconfidence' by Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Co., Tamano, Japan, it was, when built, the world's largest offshore, semi-submersible, FLOATEL (floating hotel for offshore workers).
34,000 g.t., as:
'Polyconfidence' to circa 1997, and
'Ocean Confidence' until sold for demolition in 2020.
Based on the Aker H-3.2E offshore design, and being self -propelled, it made its way to the North Sea under its own power, where it was used for accommodating drilling and production workers in the Oseberg oil field.
It had accommodation for 800 persons, with the highest Scandinavian standards and facilities for all onboard.
The FLOATEL was designed to withstand winds of up to 100 knots and a maximum wave-height of 30m; the 12-anchor mooring system was designed for a maximum water-depth of 320m; the dynamic-positioning system was computer controlled for the 8 thrusters.
It was subsequently sold to Diamond Offshore and converted in the American Gulf coast (at vast expense, and with considerable delays) into the drilling rig 'Ocean Confidence', with its design conceived around 1997, & becoming operational as a drilling unit for deep-water tasks in the late 1990s.
Despite the huge overrun in conversion costs, the completed rig became profitable. Her demise was due to Diamond Offshore having overexposure in the offshore markets and could not service its debts. Subsequently having to lay up and/or sell some of its units before succumbing to the inevitable, and being entirely sold to Noble Drilling.
A group of workers poses for the camera inside the top heading of the north platform cavern, currently being excavated.
The excavator is not holding up the machine but only in this position for safety while the operator (Dingo) was getting out of the truck.
How I wish we could fast forward. We escaped our bondage to enjoy a day of freedom yesterday. Great lunch inside one of our three favorite restaurants. A day to enjoy at the grocery store where no shelf was bare. An evening outdoors with plenty of sweet neighbors. Doesn’t get much better than yesterday unless I can be onboard a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico!
26/11/2018, keeping station with dynamic positioning by the drillrig 'Development Driller III', at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
A recent renaming, in October 2018.
An AHTS.
Keel laid on 23/07/1997, launched incomplete on 22/11/1997 by Vindholmen, Arendal, Norway and completed on 30/01/1998 by SIMEK, Flekkefjord, Norway (94)
4,363 g.t., 4,201 dwt and 230 tonnes bollard pull, as:
'Maersk Boulder' to 2018,
'Blue Agena' to 2019, &
'Boulder' since.
Photo citation: Ted Auch, FracTracker Alliance, 2016.
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