The Colossal Engineering Behind The World's Largest Oil Rig
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- At the time of its construction, the Hibernia platform was the largest oil platform in the world. The platform stands 224 meters high, which is half the height of New York's Empire State Building and 33 meters taller than the Calgary Tower. Located in rough waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, the platform needs to be able to survive giant waves, strong winds and collisions with giant icebergs weighing millions of tons.
If there is any issue with the intricate design, there could be a repeat of the Ocean Ranger disaster.
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Then if the iceberg is weaker out on the ocean, ( due to melting ) then the titanic should have not sunk, or is it because of the way the titanic was made with rivets done by hand just near the water line or because of the way the sheets of iron and steel were made back then ,with impurities with in each sheet of steel ?
I worked on the construction of Hibernia. From my memory, it was closer to 5000 workers at peak. Probably why we had a lottery for anyone on camp willing to get own accommodations. I can't remember how much they paid but it was profitable. Good memories.
The ocean ranger capsized and sank because of the port windows in the control room not being sealed, one was broken and flooded the control room causing serious malfunctions of valve controls which flooded the ballast tanks causing the serious listing and eventual sinking. All the other oil rigs in the area which were less suited to survive that storm survived just fine.
Yes it does not matter how well engineered a structure is if the users are not well trained and safety standards are poor or profit is prioritized over safety, lethal disaster will continue to occur.
The crew were not trained and did not have working knowledge of the ballast valve that close automatically as a last resort failsafe the crew not knowing this and as the storm was still raging inadvertently opened them causing the platform to sink
The ranger was poorly constructed...soo many lives lost..
You we're on Ocean Ranger when it went down? Why didn't you close them? How did you survive when other's did not. Tisk tisk tisk
EXACTLY! Thanks for clearing up the factual events that every Canadian should never forget. One of my Dad's best friends perished and left behind his wife and five teenage children. 😢😢😢❤
After being in storms that have left me actually shitting myself and swearing I’d never go back again to having glass calm seas that make it great to be alive Mother Nature will always find a way to surprise you and until I experienced my first lump of water/ rogue wave I didn’t then and still can’t explain it. You don’t have time to get scared it just happens so to say something is unsinkable is not only wrong it’s bordering on the criminally negligent so my view at the start of every trip was to pray for a safe trip.
Mark Hamil can make any topic super interesting:)
Luke Skywalker!
Excellent lesson on one small link in the chain of what keeps our modern world up and running. Thank you.
Really?? More like...a waste of 4 billion on a relic of outdated energy technology that is only endorsed by profiteers who care not about our planet or future!🤯
Have two buddies that work on it for years now. They dont like the helicopter ride out there. And especially don't like the ride out on a supply ship when the weather is too bad for the helicopters to fly. My good friend fly the helicopters back and forth...that's more dangerous then working on the platform.
Fuck that
Engineering ROCKS!
My brother worked on the Hibernia platform from tow out till 2019.
Watching this leaves you almost speechless and trying to quantify all the info, data,weights, heights, materials is impossible. I am totally in awe of everyone involved from supervisors ensuring "mixes" of materials are correct to the engineers designers et al. I am assuming these types of works and constructions go to tender but how do you begin with a project like this?
I work on Hibernia, video doesn't do justice on how big this thing actually is
I work on Hibernia. It does. Don't listen to this faker.
I remember going to it the first time with ITC. Man, it’s Huge.
And now: Aasta Hansteen, is the biggest oil platform with it's 320 meters and 70.000 ton.
Troll A, is the biggest gas platform with 472 meter,s and 656.000 ton....
Thunder Horse- as the largest semisubmersible production platform in the world: 59.500 ton.
Hibernia was ahead of it"s time
I may stand to be corrected, but while it was being towed to its resting spot it was the largest movable object ever made.
Who reads the comments while listening ?
Just realised this actually video from the history channel is ,what nearly 26 years old.
I'd love to work on a rig like that. 💕
Absolutely out this world. It’s just so unbelievable. Brilliant story.
Nicely Produced 👍👍 two thumbs up
What a great Video and good information 👍🏻
This is old but I like watching it again
Safety training so thoroughly scrutinized that 1% of applicants are rejected!
An iceberg in the wild - that made me chuckle
Siempre admiré el trabajo de las grandes obras de ingeniería. Esta plataforma es lo más superior que vi en mi vida. Enhorabuena a los proyectictas y a todos los trabajadores que participaron en la construcción del Hibernia.
I hear the Krusty Burger on the platform is doing good business.
I want 100 krusty Burgers 🍔🍟
@@kiwidiesel me want krabby pattie
Amazing technology
Thanks I got New TH-cam Channel from this video to learn more knowledge and learn great documentaries.
Nice to know Luke Skywalker got another gig after doing Star Wars...
You must be joking. The list of the things he has voice acted in is a mile long.
Pretty interesting. 👍
This is a Massive oil rig,but a few months ago ive seen a documentary abaut the Russian oil rig Berkut,and i was very,very Impressed by the Sheer Size of that huge Rig.
200.000 thousand Tons... Uauuu that is a very big and Heavy "Office" to Work.
PS: but the most Impressive oil rig Ever built ( its my personal opinion) is the Troll A. Its just a Monumental feat of Engininiering.
This worth the watch that's crazy and dangerous 👍👍👍 condolences to the lost lives though
1% failure rate they’ve really set the bar high.
Love this
It’s ok Superman will hold it up!
Thank you.
Those star-shaped corners are seemingly taken straight from the best forts with overlapping fields of fire, where each point gets defended by its immediate neighbors left & right. Maybe integrate firing slits into the star projections? Slap those suckers in the "China sea" or anywhere else, and nothing's gonna count against them except a tactical nuke. A fixed fort was built over some rocks in a Philippines bay port - took a Huge amount of "attention" to silence.
Or you could skip the tactical nuke and simply flank around the fort on both sides to cut off the supply lines and wait for the inevitable surrender once their supplies run out.
Amazing engineering
The pyramids lasted because all the ballast at the bottom ,less weight ad weather resistance at the top less easy to wreck
I'm not big on their iceberg strength tests. The one that sunk the Titanic was pretty effective.
There's plenty of other theories as to why & how the Titanic sank....I wouldn't preface my concerns on the so-called official narrative.
Had the titanic to the iceberg head on it woulda had minor damage
The Ocean Ranger capsized and sank due to an unsealed, broken port window in the control room, which flooded the area and caused malfunctions in valve controls, leading to the ballast tanks flooding. This resulted in severe listing and the rig's eventual sinking, while other less robust oil rigs in the area survived the storm without issue.
Nearly as beautiful as the Eiffel Tower.
Sooner or later mother nature will swallow it up. You couldn't pay me enough to work on one of those rigs. The reason I'm making this statement is not to question the reliability of the rig, but simply because I get seasick.
Find the spine boy, no one needs to know how pathetic you are !
I would on new ish rig not 40 or 50 year old rig. I already work in 80+ year old heavy industrial maintenance jobs that sketchy
No risk no reward
No it wont
It doesn't float it's fixed to bottom of ocean floor so no seasickness
Why didn't anyone get in the life boats that I assume were on the Ocean Ranger ? You showed 2 of them - I also assume they had enough for everyone onboard the rig.
Rolled over to fast, or the life boats don't really work in extreme weather.
@@UQRXD her bow dropped faster than the stern lifeboats could be launched, so attempting to launch them would have either landed them directly on the pontoons or the waves would smash them apart again the understructure supports
What an amazing structure
If mother nature really get angry what man made structure could stand against her there's nothing on this planet could out stand the power of the ocean if it really get angry
Amazing!
Why don't they build small platforms around the rig with special weaponry that could move and target the ice berg before it gets to close. JUST shoot the iceberg to minimize the situation. BEFORE IT GETS TO THE ICE WALL.
Dang mark hamill narrated this? That’s dope
I find it so strange, and very few people are commenting on it, lol.
Is that Luke Skywalker narrating this?
PANIC cannot be trained away ... EVERY executive responsible for this project must face this training and PASS or lose their JOB ... Each story about tragedy is blamed on the worker's inability to do this or that .... There is NOTHING indestructible and to try is just a "small spark" away from tragedy ...
This rig is still going. Now there's another near it.
Given the billions of barrels of oil beneath it, that's no surprise.
Hebron another gbs type oil rig. Also built at the bull arm fabrication site. Worked there in 2014 welding the living quarters together
If that bad boy had broke loose it would be like Godzilla
oil is not from dinosaurs
There had been human error on the Ocean Ranger. Failure to shut a porthole with a storm shutter. The sea broke into the electrical control room and from there on they had lost control of the ballast system.
No, they didn’t fail to shut it. The porthole broke. How the repairs were conducted by improperly trained crew and how the rig was stabilized (again by improperly trained ‘experts’) was why it went down.
@@elijahrobinson2362 There was a steel storm shutter which wasn't closed and secured. It is documented. Before telling someone he is wrong look things up yourself. F off.
When u think how much a million gallons an hour extracted empty space in the ground how much space is that ,x 24 hrs a day ,7 days a week x by a year ,suddenly being filled by seawater x the number of years its been operated. I have to wonder if it was anything to do with the great sunami whilst all the time Nicholas tesslas work was suppressed for near 100 yrs so the greed of oil could be allowed
That ground is harder then rock lol it’s not collapsing in on it self.
Doc...y did not reveal where all the crude goes when it leaves the platform. I assume pipeline to shore. Then is it loaded on ships, or is it piped to somewhere to be refined. Then where???
It just leaves a massive hole under the sea floor when that collapses it a possible sunarmi
Nicholas tessla ? The greed of oil ? The great sunami ? My God, where to start... The great "sunami" by the way needed the power of several million nuclear bombs to get it going. You do not cause it by sucking a bit of oil out of the ground. And "Nicholas tesslas" work was published in every reputable science journal of the time and has never been suppressed or discredited. I know, I studied electrical & electronic engineering. If anything, Tesla's work was so far ahead of it's time that we lacked the resources and peripheral technology to bring many of his concepts into reality. We now have wireless power transmission, like wireless charging for mobile phones because we can only now produce the apparatus on a large scale to make this possible and affordable for the general population. But well done for your comment, you are very articulate for a fourth grader.
Just the tale of the Ocean Ranger you stated told me you don't do enough research for me to watch your channel.
Ocean ranger has a small port window smashed out causing salt water to enter the circuit boards that were below the water line causing the pumps to fail..
That caused it to list.
THE Mark Hamill ?!
It’s a production platform not a rig. Rigs are for exploration
Its always somebody tryna get technical. But this is dumb. It's called an oil rig. For extraction of oil from the seabed
Most of the people who built this are now retired or dead.
Ya might wanna bring this up when people bitch about filling up their tank. Shit doesn't magically appear out of the end of a hose, down at Speedway...
The size of the old CRT screens.
To think oil comes from dead plants and animals is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.
What does ur research show and studies prove it comes from. I will wait lol
Same place everything comes from, another mineral etc.
@@bmoney_0827 I think oil is as natural as water. Can you explain where water comes from? I mean definitively explain where it comes from, not just a regurgitation of some clever scientists theory.
Globe earth is the stupidest thing I was taught/ I’ve heard.
cool
They ruined all that land to make that oil platform sad
😂
Fun fact bout those wave rooms & ship models. Not only do you have to go from a scale of 40:1 you have to (idk the exact science) also go to 1/3 the speed… just a thought while you think bout models to scale :p
watch the scale model of the oil rig bout 38min in, imagine if that was to scale same speed, those waves would be haulin ass lol
Trust me bro… lmao
Amazing ! Nothing against oil, but the environmental destruction just to build that thing is staggering.
So that is real life Noah Ark!
Bravo to all the Human! We are amazing!
Wow
Realy I like this largest oil rig
I wish Americans would join the 19th Century and learn Metric, trying to understand what their Imperial measurements mean is frustrating, how many Llamas are there in a Fahrenheit? How many Cables are there in a Foot? There seems to be 10 Chains in a Furlong but what is a Rod? Or a Rood? Or a Gill? I gave up watching this video after about 5 minutes, when 98% of the worlds population uses Metric and only America plus 2 other 3rd world countries uses Imperial I shouldn't have to deal with this BS. The other 2 countries are Liberia and Myanmar.
That would have been the right thing to do...200 years ago. We are now in the 21st century.
@@Hotwheels59 Very true, I agree 100% with that, we are now in the 21st Century and the fact America is using an archaic measuring system cobbled together from the Winchester Standards, British Imperial measurements and also the American Imperial measuring units, all different and all complicated units that don't make sense. Metric is a simple measuring system that actually makes sense and is easy to use. Water freezes at 0 Celsius and boils at 100 Celsius, 1 liter of water weighs 1 Kg making it easy to remember. 1 Km is 1000 meters, the K standing for thousand in the metric system. How many feet in a mile? I doubt it is 1000 feet in a mile. So, the Americans should use the Metric system just as you say.
We use Imperial units just so we can listen to all the world's Karens gripe about it. Keep your metric system....we'll keep our guns.
Merica fuk yea
Some of these safety measures make me question if this is the right way
Them growlers. We pull them in for to put in our drinks. It lasts all day. Sometimes when the ice explode in your glass it comes out of your glass. Lol you cant measure anything about this ice. Hard as steel and it dont melt like anything you can make.
"...as the cement dries..." Concrete cures.
Drying is a part of the curing process.
Never say Never when it comes to anything that is man made ....
Just watched a rig sink in a doco...so this should be good ⛳
Yeah..this documentry teach us how to survive in dangerous sea...lots to learn from here...
"Now scientologists look for even more remote areas to destroy the earth"
Will the rig move on, after extracting all the oil from the well it currently sits on ?
trash
@@Q_QQ_Q Idiot
How dare you
If anything the topside could go elsewhere but it’s getting pretty long in the tooth. I would bet if it comes apart it would be decommissioned. She’s showing her age.
They will just abandon it or blow it up
Icebergs move??😳
OF COURSE they move. Where? Well they're rather shifty things icebergs,, you think you've got them and they move somewhere else...
@@micnorton9487 So shifty. Who knew?
Bomb the bergs into smaller pieces?
That's like trying to bomb a mountain. It would need such a large nuclear weapon to achieve it, in some cases several thousand nuclear weapons, that the contamination would be catastrophic for marine life and possibly lethal to people who wish to work in that area at a later date,
The great engineering oil and gas energy project
I moved from Northern WI (fkng cold) to PHX (umm, not cold) but am thinking of moving back home to take care of my parents. 30below is no joke. These guys willing to work in those conditions (with the humidity and freezing drenching) that are taking on these conditions, give em space. It’s anarctic terrible. Cold is deadly. High heat is deadly too, prolly faster than cold, but cold…hated it. It just hurts. Hi heat is deadly yea, but generally manageable at least for a day or two - cold? you’re gonna die. I guess death will occur ina day or two with heat, but cold with these guys? They’re pretty badass. My point, don’t underestimate their desire to make a buck.
I worked 20 years next to the North Sea unloading shipping containers and such like and that was nothing really in comparison to what you guys do, and even I got sick of the freezing cold and biting winds and borderline hypothermia you get from being cold and wet all day. Not being able to feel your hands and feet, slurring your words, losing the ability to think straight and the exhaustion you feel after. I guess you know all about that. Respect to you for what you do man!!
Bulls don't have arms, wait..
A Arm is a inlet on the coast.
@@40cleco *An* Arm
I think you missed it
There's an objective...
better than the Titanic 😮
So then, tell me why is the price of gas so high, knowing the USA has a stake in this?
If a berg gets anywhere close to the platform it will be evacuated...
I’d refuse to leave it, like a real man.
Mark Hamill!
So am I the only one who is amused that the Joker aka Luke Skywalker aka Mark "Go" HAMell is the narrator?
He does a lot of voice acting etc
Narrator loves to use the "indestructible" term loosely and often...the last time something was touted as indestructible it ended up laying on the ocean floor not far from this rig.
Did you not watch or listen to the vid?
I love anything that involves death risk. Was a special operator until about 7 years ago. My life is boring as f*** now.
I object to the comment in this video about the Piper Alpha crew not knowing how to fight fires aboard their rig.
My dad died on Piper 'A' and he was a one of hundreds of men that went through the firefighting training and sea survival training, they were all well trained and prepared for emergencies.
Piper 'A'' was not a fault of the crew or their inability to save the rig and themselves, it was a breakdown in protocols and processes that enabled the condensate pump to be operated by a piece of paper being filed in a separate place and a blank plate only being 'hand tight' instead of torqued to its operating torque.
I resent the comment my dad was poorly-trained or unqualified for his work. None of those men stood a chance because this was not a fire but an explosion, which lead to widespread damage, and fires, some uncontrollable. I recall my mum going to inquests and sitting through the events being retold by those who worked on the rig (at the time of the disaster). To hear some half-witted prick talking bollocks about my dad and those he worked and died with and why they died is insulting.
I was 17 when I heard my dad's rig had been involved in an accident, I can still feel the tears rolling down my cheek as I sat and watched tv footage of the fire hoping my dad would make it, he didn't. He and another 164 men died that day that fire could not be fought by anyone it was jets of gas it would be like trying to extinguish a jet fighters afterburner with a small handheld fire extinguisher and no heat sheild, you would be toasted alive and make zero difference to the fire. So the comments about being unskilled are mute and I can not help but feel they are an anti-british sleight.
I'm deeply offended by te narration and producers and editors and even the script writer of this video, I do not know where they got their so-called 'report' from but it sure as hell was not the same report we had. I would not be surprised if their research was a few webpages and a wikipedia reading for an hour. Because it's nothing like the report my family was in attendance to hear in the inquest. This video gets a serious thumbs down from me a huge 'DISLIKE', for talking crap and telling lies about dead men, unable to defend themselves, one of them being my father.
Hahaha. I just love humans are melting the ice so they build iceberg proof ocean derricks lol.
Icebergs are naturally occurring
Not a woman in site. Who would have thought. Men have their role and so do women and that's totally fine.
i worked for a guy whose brother died on the ocean ranger . last name jacebson sorry about the spelling
2.64 billion pounds of material.
Assuming that's in metric tons.
So scary...I don't even want to know...😂
Put military guns on the rig.Blow up the ice burgs.
35:46 Thats Not a 60ft wave Nor a 18 meter wave came down with the build up hey.
There is a gal in Connecticut that has swallowed more seaman than the Grand Banks has!