Oil Rigs - Technological Innovation - Big Bigger Biggest
This documentary reveals the technological leaps forward that allowed the world’s deepest floating oil platform, the Perdido spar in the Gulf of Mexico, to be built. At a water depth of about 2.5 kilometres, operated by the Shell Oil Company, the platform is located in the Perdido fold belt which is a rich discovery of crude oil and natural gas. This floating factory is capable of drilling in any direction, and in depths of up to 3 kilometres below the sea floor. At maximum production it processes 100,000 barrels of oil per day.
The film explores how this groundbreaking structure was made possible through a series of six engineering breakthroughs. Six landmark oil rigs, including the Beryl Alpha platform, each feature a major technological innovation that allowed oil platforms to be built and survive in ever deeper waters. Using computer generated animation we reveal the incredible stories behind these structures and the inventions that have driven them deeper. Six ingenious leaps forward that enabled oil platforms to evolve from DEEP, to DEEPER, into the world’s DEEPEST!
00:00 Introduction
02:47 Water - Grand Lake
09:54 Foundation - Grand Isle
17:39 Standing Firm - Beryl Alpha
27:52 Assembly - Cognac
38:00 Buoyancy - Auger
44:50 Fire - Perdido
Episode from the “Big Bigger Biggest” documentary series exploring the engineering breakthroughs that have enabled us to develop some of the largest structures in existence.
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Whoever did the animations needs a raise , solid job.
How does oil get miles under the ocean what is oil
@@Jay-ho6gw Dinosaur poop duh
@@Jay-ho6gwIt’s decomposed organic matter that’s settled over thousands of years…
@@Jay-ho6gw majority of oil is from algae, not dinosaurs
Big bigger biggest is one of my favourite series of documentaries to watch
Same
I have been with Oil Service Company for 17 years now. For some, this is perhaps one of a kind technology. For us it's a place to work. More than that, this technology represents the human effort to survive and thrive.
I work oilfield. The engineering that goes into it. Blows my mind on a daily basis.
Amazing video. Key moments: 13:55 Radio sound 15:32 Suction sound 42:59 Hydrochloric Acid 43:50 Drawback 45:14 Explosion 46:26 Love this guy's energy 46:38 Fire
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Brilliantly presented. I spent almost my entire career in the oil industry, its is an amazing business, and it keeps life today as we know it possible.
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As a semi truck owner man its people like you that make our industry a lot easier. Those green freaks really made me want to get out of this industry when diesel hit over 6 dollars a gallon.
@@JBMSTRIKER71 bro u oughta read a history book, watch something on how, “you literally can not take more energy from a system than it can organically provided without massive consequnces and generations of debt”. Green freaks be damned, they are fools, but so are we when you think that disel goes up only becuase of some pathetic human protest. Look up microprossecors, how mich energy and super clean fresh water is neede to make just one tiny microchip. The World is Ran by Machines. They Rule The World. Humans are Slaves, you mean nothing, you are just a means to and End. Its so damn obvious its sad, that foolish humans keep bickering ans fighting like damn dumb creatures over who is at fault, mean while the real Metal Masters make all the LAWs. You will never undertand until its too late, arrgoance, pride. Its a pity, but hounestly we deserve whats coming.🦾🤖🔥☢️💀🏭
@@JBMSTRIKER71 Those “green freaks” are doing a whole lot of good for our environment 🙄 What an ignorant comment, way to show everyone just how triggered you are! 🤦🏼♂️
@@JBMSTRIKER71 here in germany diesel was over 8 dollars bc of these tree hugging freaks
Worked on the Brent bravo (looked like the Beryl Alpha) in the North Sea , worked in some really heavy seas where the accommodation living quarters would move when the huge waves hit .
Was it dark at night
You ever meet Marie-A B (shortened for privacy). She was on that rig for YEARS! Rode a Honda CRB. Girl is awesome!
this documentary is already 10 years old... but still love to watch ... esp the antonov 124 episode
2009, so 14 years.
Your work and research are dynamic
You're doing an outstanding job! 👍
Amazing animation ! Kudos
This is just amazing
Amazing tutorial ❤️
How To Annhilate all Organic Life 101😂🦾🤖☢️🏭🔥💀
Those deep sea divers/welders who built that rig deserve more recognition. Can’t imagine having to decompress for 9 days
We do it for the money, because the work is a bitch. But the brotherhood of sea welders is so strong. But we make $385/hr for the welding, then $120/hr for scuba requirements, and $85/hr for hazard pay. So my check is made by $510/hr. X however many hours I work. 8 hours = $4,080
@@butchwilliams Sorry if this is being too nosy, would the work be fairly regular and year-round or more like 2 or 3 contracts of a couple weeks throughout the year.
Barrel alpha rig, So top heavy. Just amazing
Stavros in Florida caught your video and enjoyed it, explained really well. A really neat video
Halkias?
Buenísimo !. increíble !. Impresionante !. Tio San... in dhis world You are the best . 💪 !.
We take this stuff for granted
I love it
As a Brit i really do admire American ingenuity
Wow amazing technology..
Realy amazing how they can Anhilate all Organic life with such ease🦾🤖☢️🏭🔥💀
Small misspelling in the thumbnail. Thanks for the documentary
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Hermoso una plataforma petrolera en medio del oceano construida con mucha logistica
Do you want to be uploading the big bigger biggest icebreaker documentary too? It was ones on, but it seems to be gone now
I want to know which software you use to make such amazing animations.
He never made this video its of Discovery 😂
He never made this video its of Discovery 😂
VisualC, Visual Basic. These documentary is old
True that. This is cartoons for adults imo.
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Very nice lob
I love it, all these amazing machines but we get push back on renewables like it's too much hassle. Were better than that, this is proof
The offshore oil&gas come long way from start 1960 up now.here east coast canada newfoundland we have bad,ugly and good too.the public don't how cost today offshore is just insane plus all planning on this.here calgary lots company are involve offshore and tough go yup.thanks video😊
Also, these are core samples that can be given to archeologist and mineralogist. The study the history of the water bed of this part of the world.
Why would you name an oil rig "Perdido" = "Lost" :/.
I'm these offshore platforms. You can work directly with NOAA Is the national ocean and atmospheric association.
Lithium, let's rip a giant hole in the earth, and use a billion gallons of fresh water to process it.🤣
How i can get a job in mechanical department in offshore oil rig as i don't have any kind of degree related to this field but i have enough knowledge about field
Element 18 animation is simple -poly 3D models that makes a lot of sense
Deep sea archaeologists can analyze core samples from artifacts using techniques like spectroscopy and radiocarbon dating. This analysis can provide insights into the artifact's composition, age, and preservation needs. Core samples are long, narrow pieces of rock that are obtained by drilling into a rock with a special tool. Full diameter core samples can range from 1.50 to 6 inches in diameter and anywhere between 15 to 400 feet in length. Geochemists can also extract fluid from the core and conduct chemical analyses. They look for elements and trace minerals in the samples that tell us where the fluid came from and what conditions are like under the seafloor.
Out of here, ads every 7 min is unreasonable.
Planet Earth Restauration, Leav3 no Trace Lif3forms on Earth ❤
7 min in and two sets of ads, come on, hope the rest is not like this, ads OK greed not so much.
Though these offshore platforms can have all kinds of atmospheric institutions, modern ring offshore above sea environmental conditions and also wave tight speed and density of the ocean's currents at the surface and then at the different levels. Below the surface as well. So lots of oceanic research can be done and all these offshore platforms. Marine geology, or geological oceanography, is the study of the ocean floor's structure and history. It involves geophysical, geochemical, sedimentological, and paleontological investigations of the ocean floor and coastal zone
At the end of the movie we can see rescue boats which can drop from the platform into the sea by a special designed rail guideline
wow
This rig weights 45,000 tons, more than many WW2 battleships.!
Did they do 12 hour shift?
The funniest thing in this video was this quote near the end “The Oil Industry has learned its lesson” 😂
Not funny and you are sick, disgusting and insulting to post the laughing icon. You take the statement completely out of context. Safety was learned over many years and many disasters, not just recently. What do you do that lets you survive while being so senseless and callous?
Keep a rescue ship near the drilling rig. For workers to escape
That cuts into profit margins. Can't be having that. Its cheaper to pay out families of dead workers than it is to protect them from a 1:100000 tragedy. Im not saying its right, I'm just saying that's corporate thinking.
Perdido is a relatively small platform. When compared to Thunderhorse or Atlantis or Olympus, Perdido is tiny, maybe 1/5 the size. Although, Perdido is deep, 8k ft. But not much deeper than Atlantis, 7,000 ft. The large rigs are much more interesting because there's so much more going on and involved with the topsides and hulls. I was the construction proj engineer for Atlantis (i was friends with the construction PM for Perdido) and it's so strange how you just get used to working on jobs like these. Visitors to the fab yard show up and jaws on floor. I miss it, but the work is a nightmare because Shell, BP, Chevron, etc don't care about construction cost compared to the level of production you'll get. Atlantis was producing 300,000 barrels/day and paid for itself so quickly. So BP accelerated our schedule to inhuman levels but didn't care what our mgmt proposed cost-wise to do it. We just got stuck working 7 days/week.... all of these jobs eventually do this. The production is just so insane compared to what it costs to build them.
Go big, and drill baby DRILL! T-24
It supplies oil for 150.000 cars in summary or per day?
Supplies enough oil to provide 150000 cars with gasoline for one day Massive output
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?!
Roger Roger Roger More More More
concrete doesn't dry it chemically sets....
It's not reassuring to know that we need to search for oil deeper and deeper
Bigger deeper harder and there bobbing up and down on the energy of life???🤔
It amazing what man can engineer with oil recovery thech now if man can find a way to replace the unreplaceable which is oil we would have it made lite your cigar with 1000 dollar bills
We're so lucky to have hard working feminists building these oil rigs. 😂
😂😂😂😂 clowns 🤡
True, they are building the modern world, and men are sitting idle
😂😂😂 robots
Thankfully they are too busy in the kitchen to be bothering their pretty little heads about stuff like this ❤
@@samattwood6748 proper women are in the kitchen. Feminists are at a McDonald's drive through eating their 8,000th calorie for the day. 😂
Good stuff! Just want to point out a facts error. Troll Alpha platform is the biggest ever moved construction in history, 1,2 mill tons 472 meters high built in Norway, not Beryl Alpha as stated in this episode.
There wrong I worked in the gulf on an anchor vessel and we were putting anchors out to support flotation rigs in deep water in the early 80s
THIS IS A GIANT CPU THEY ARE EXTRACTING LIFE FORCES TO KEEP LIFE GOING....
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This Channel has way to few subs
All they do is post old cable tv documentaries that they ripped from the internet. They’ve done no work to deserve subs.
@@chronovore7234gotta agree with you there
Peon Deepwater into keybridge is smalltime.
It’s getting harder and harder to produce petroleum. The reserves are in more difficult places.
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Reminds me of Pernida from Warframe 😂
Is that blood on his chin and neck and collar of his shirt at 41:02 WTf. Can't believe nobody noticed that!
Or it’s an injury, or some sort of birth mark…🤦🏼♂️ WTF is you getting outraged over a manufactured nothingburger! Don’t you people have actual life issues to worry about?! 🙄
Deepwater Horizon 3.0.⚠
Marine geology, or geological oceanography, is the study of the ocean floor's structure and history. It involves geophysical, geochemical, sedimentological, and paleontological investigations of the ocean floor and coastal zone. Marine biologists study marine organisms, their behaviors, and interactions with the environment. They study biological oceanography and the associated fields of chemical, physical, and geological oceanography to understand marine organisms. Deep-sea biologists may have a variety of responsibilities, including: Examining and exploring deep-ocean habitats, animals, and microorganisms Studying the physiological adaptations of organisms in the deep-sea environment Examining the diversity and activity of microbial life in the deep sea Providing specimens for study on the taxonomy, evolution, and ecology of benthic invertebrates Most positions require at least a Master's degree to become a deep-sea researcher. If you are interested in becoming a Professor of Marine Biology or writing grants to take the lead in research, you will need a PhD.
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Talk about deepwater horizon I thought it was the deepest??
With all this drilling it's evidents God doesn't exit humans will end earth
Great animation. Meh sound effects. In fact, they are annoying. Without sound effects it is completely fine.
Quintillion and quintillion dollars business in the universe years2024
- Will this concept succeed? Nope. No chance. - Why? Because it’s just a flawed idea. The principle is wrong. - Normal turbines are extremely simple items. This concept isn’t. The video mentioned some issues, like the vulnerability and friction in the long track, inherent low height meaning lower wind speed and more turbulence. Just one of those alone would be enough to say nope. Then there are even more serious not mentioned issues. The wing on this concept, as well as those on a normal rotating turbine, is an asymmetrical wing shape, like an aeroplane wing. It only works well in one direction. Most planes can’t fly upside down and certainly not in reverse. This concept, if the models are precise, runs the wings in reverse in one of the directions. This could be remedied by rotating the blade upside down every time it passes the sharper turns. I assume that’s actually part of the concept. Otherwise it would be too bad for anyone to try. Another big issue is foil speed. Most of the power from a rotating turbine is generated quite far out from the rotating centre. The reason is that when the wing speed through the air gets much higher, the ability to harvest the power multiplies. The wings in this concept will never move fast through the wind. Conclusion, as mentioned in the first few words: This concept has a very low output potential, compared to its size, and it has far to high friction and complexity. It has zero future, other than as a means to suck money out of some rich guy with no mechanical and aerodynamics knowledge.
Horrific....so many places to drill on land...why must they drill in the water?
Most of our oil comes from off shore
They do they avoid damaging the sea floor?😢
The rocks and shit?
They ask the fish for permission first.
Houston Houston Houston
it's the gas that's destructive not the oil resource (and poor safety)
Damn, 9 days decompressing 😂
Sounds like an argument w the wife. 😂
Not how directional drilling works
Contamination is unavoidable in sea or on earth. Monopolized oil companies with huge profits, but poor people are starving and dieing all over the world.
I wish some oil prospectors already tried the inorganic oil theory. Maybe there's a lot more oil than we think.
MABY YOU DO NOT THINK AT ALL.
2nd most plentiful liquid on earth! So there's either an absolute shit load of it. Or there's a huge drop off after water being the most plentiful... I think we'll be fine for a long time yet. It's just the exploration that's the caveat...
Interesting that we are still open to drilling and Joe is selling EVs 🤔
Where do you think the energy to charge your EV comes from?
@@charleschristianson2730 Dah, coal and oil
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Built in air is next pass 5Dq lol 👿
Oil value inflated in 1919 discovery. betz limits eliminating most of the winds value threw gaps between blades . Einestine1919 relativity of winds equal and opposite reactions produce 4 higgins rpm blossoming .with sound zipping can and will produce speeds of light.then infinite.values he offset his hells ways to boil water massively naturaly and no tripple meltdowns needed ever
wow really?
Hang on...so divers are under pressure for a month and sit in a chamber for nine days? How the hell does that work 😮😮 how can you live in a chamber for nine days 😂
Ever heard of iron lungs? There’s still people using them, albeit they’re rare. But you can essentially spend most of your life in one of those contraptions! Similarly, are hyperbaric treatment chambers…
It is called saturation diving. Because the gases (mainly nitrogen) that get dissolved in their blood reach a saturation level, and the decompression time does not increase from that point on. It's very tough work and very dangerous but very very good money 💰
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Sad. Capitalusm vs. Nature.
What's out chinese is watching..for sure they copy it..and Claim they are the one who design.😂😅😂
Why would the Conservatives vote a person into the Chair role that is so unlikely to be impartial? And I am voting conservative for sure.
this is almost propaganda for oil companie.
Not impressed.He compares apples and pears.Totally unrelated metrics against each other.How deep the water is doesn't say anything about the platform size.And the pouring of concrete of Beryl Alpha is just stupid showing compact legs!The legs are of course hollow with about 1 meter thick walls. packed full of reinforcement steel.And why don't you show some of the big platforms of the North Sea not just the small Beryl Alpha.Gullfaks C or gass platform Troll A?I lived one kilometer from the site where the CONDEEP platforms were made in the 70' and 80'.
Oil is finished.
We do not need to keep depending on oil if we need to stop global warming we must stop and look into green energy now.
Oil is fine.
😂 so clueless, SMH.
Keep believing MSM
Then stop using oil Stop using plastics Stop wearing clothes Stop using vehicles Stop using roads Stop using your phone
It’s unfortunate the divers made very little money for the amount of risk the job carried.
Most advanced oil rig is in Russia 😊
Not good to spend so much time and especially material to build a dirty oil-rig. Oil-rigs are a thing of the past.
My husband is on a oil rig right now in Iceland
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
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No rebars?
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I'm in for oil... but remember DEEPWATER HORIZON STORMS PACK A NEW PUNCH
That valdez tanker made hell of mess in pristine native waters While superior winds and tides go between ears.politics plugged to elect policy's last 100 + years
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