Thought Id share a couple of pictures of the oil rig jacket being built on the yard next to us at work. very interesting to watch being constructed - Who’s says we have no manufacturing left in the UK?
Someone had a very tightly clenched bottom hole yesterday over seeing this op, up she goes -
Half way there (zoom in on this pic to see the little people below it) -
Quick lads, get a few tacks on it!! (only one more to do) -
Now that’s what I call a crane!
Most or at least a large number of the workforce wil be european, if it’s anything like the construction industry.
Impressive job & pics Gav, thanks for sharing 
Did I spot Frank’s tugboat there?
Impressive!
I like cranes too!!
Cool man!
They are tiny in comparison to the Asian Hercules floating crane that they used to convert the Bonga oil tanker into a FPSO unit on the same quay a couple of years ago… You could see it on the horizon 10 miles away as you came up the road it was that big… Something like 3500 tonnes lift capacity iirc (the jacket above above will be 600 tonnes when complete so the Hercules could lift about 6 of them at once weight wise…). I have some pictures somewhere I’ll dig them out, it was mighty impressive.
What the hell is with the tides there, it looks like the Bay of Fundy, it looks like they will have a 30 min window to float that sucker out…
My wing keel would work it’s way down after a few days on the bottom mud and it would be bad…It’s gotta stink there at low tide…
Cool cranes when they don’t collapse…
They have about an hours window if they wait for the right tide to get it off the quayside and on to the barge.
When I first moved to the area they had just started to build the BP Shearwater topside. It was absolutely fasinating to watch them construst what was essentually a small city (looked like a borg spacehip tbh…). They then pick it up on a set of those custom wheelie things (all 30,000 tonnes of it or whatever it was), move it across the pad and out on to a waiting barge. A few weeks later after it has had all its sea fastenings done it floats off down the river… Amazing!!
It is wild to see what can be done… I guess those engineers didn’t cut class.
Well done.
Us Brits haven’t lost the knack y’know Frank. Jonny Foreigner can still learn a lot from us
Aren’t we all in the UK?
Yes, and no. I should perhaps have said ‘foriegn nationals’ which is the more usual accepted term?
i knew what you meant 