Neat Marlin Clip

[Jraysray]

Check it out.

[boxy]

After they pulled it out the first time and it swam back in, they should have just saved it from itself and had a nice Marlin BBQ.....

Where was the clip from?

[boxy]

That's one Pizzzzed off Swordfish..


WICKED cool video!

Favorite food is squid, I wonder if it thought the yellow hydraulic lines were squid n cheese??


That makes sense, when the camera first panned around to the front, I thought the hydraulic lines were a Squid....

[Jraysray]

After they pulled it out the first time and it swam back in, they should have just saved it from itself and had a nice Marlin BBQ.....

Where was the clip from?

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Thunder Horse: No ordinary project













http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/us/bp_us_english/STAGING/local_assets/images/photos/thunder_horse_375x200.jpg Thunder Horse is the world’s largest floating platform.












BP’s huge Thunder Horse platform deserves a high profile.








Thunder Horse is one of the key discoveries upon which the company will grow its future Gulf of Mexico production. Designed to process 250,000 barrels of oil per day and 200 million cubic feet per day of natural gas, Thunder Horse will be the largest producer in the Gulf. The field will be supported by a network of 25 subsea wells.






World class field



Located 150 miles southeast of New Orleans, the Thunder Horse field is one of the most technologically complex, in part because of the challenging deepwater environment.
Only when you sail past the Thunder Horse production-drilling-quarters (PDQ) platform can you really appreciate the sheer scale and complexity of this mighty floating structure. The platform’s topside area is the size of three football fields, packed with equipment and systems capable of processing and exporting a quarter of a million barrels of oil per day.







First production




First oil at the world’s largest floating platform has been rescheduled to the end of 2008. The cause of the delay is the need to repair and replace components in the subsea system following a failure during pre-commissioning checks. The equipment had passed all the normal industry standard tests and regulatory requirements. But when we conducted more prolonged and rigorous testing, as an additional safety precaution, a failure occurred on a weld in one of the subsea manifolds. The subsea equipment had remained in a cold state, with cathodic protection, on the sea bed for some time following the listing of the platform after its evacuation during the 2005 hurricane season. Following a thorough investigation, we concluded that these unusual circumstances led to hydrogen embrittlement of the equipment so that it could not perform its intended high pressure, high temperature service. We will now retrieve and replace all the subsea components we believe could be at risk, before starting production by the end of 2008.







Impressive statistics




Impressive statistics abound for the Thunder Horse PDQ, the largest production semi-submersible ever built. But perhaps no less should be expected of a platform that for the next quarter century or longer will be the oil and gas production hub for one of the largest hydrocarbon discoveries to date in the Gulf of Mexico. Its reservoir lies some three miles beneath mud, rock and salt, topped by a mile of ocean, and yields its hydrocarbons at pressures over 1,200 bar and temperatures of 135˚C – conditions rarely encountered anywhere in the offshore world. There were many technology gaps to fill when the project started, and through doing so BP pushed beyond existing limits in some areas. The learning we have gained in doing so will benefit not only BP’s future deepwater projects, but the industry as a whole.







Thunder Horse at a glance:



Platform design: semi-submersible
Block: Mississippi Canyon 778/822
Platform production rating: 250,000 barrels of oil per day; 200 million cubic feet of gas per day