A Look INSIDE an Amazing Six-storey $1 Billion Offshore Platform
2023 ж. 4 Қар.
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The offshore drilling platform Berkut is one of the largest in the world. This is a huge fully autonomous plant on giant reinforced concrete piles, which not only drills new wells, but also extracts several thousand tons of oil every day from a huge depth. The platform is able to withstand 18-meter waves, withstand temperatures down to -44 C° and the pressure of ice fields up to 2 meters thick.
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If we have technology to build... They could build more? Make a state? 🫵😊
It never ceases me amaze me how humans can design and build such an amazing and complicated piece of equipment. I’m blown away by their intelligence.
Our* intelligence
@@Azdingue He’s an alien visiting from another planet😺
It's because unlike you, some people actually goes to school
@@getlost3810 GFY
@@getlost3810 lol 🤣
I was one of the engineers who helped in the design and material selection of this rig. The weather was absolute hell. Most of the world has zero idea how powerful mother nature can truly be.
No way! I was the lead engineer on this project.
@@ShahyadG No Way! I was the lead engineer on this project.
@@jakobmuniz238 I remember you. You worked for that Steve guy.
Your lying in the internet has gotten out of control Paul.
Ron? Is that you! How yeah been you little reach around master you! Still tuggin away without consent? Or did the last reach around rehab finally work?
As a chief of operations of an offshore oil rig, I can tell that this is an amazing career that comes with a lot of sacrifices. Money is good, in my case, more than 1M per year, but im a full living oil rig worker, this means that theres no helicopter or ship that brings me back to my house every other week, I usually spend 6 months straight then 2 weeks off and I do another 6 months, no days off, no schedule, pure work.
There must be decent recreational facilities on these outfits. How many hours a day do you work? May I ask how the drills go from vertical to horizontal under ground? What kind of watch do you wear at work?
hats of to you sir respect
You make $1M per year?
@tikitavi7120 Facilities are ok, just the basics, I usually work anything between 85 to 95 hours a week, an average of 13 hours a day, no days off, the drilling it's kind of complicated to explain but here you go... The drillpipe is actually quite flexible. It’s actually rather difficult to drill a perfectly vertical well in most formations without taking a ridiculous amount of time. Once you get a slant well pointed in the correct direction with the proper BHA, bottom hole assembly and drilling parameters: weight on bit, flow rate rpm and more it may track that direction with little to no intervention Horizontal is not that difficult. It is hard on the drillpipe. In especially abrasive formations, it can drastically reduce the life of the drillpipe. For horizontal wells, as long as you have a vertical section above the horizontal section, the weight of the pipe in the vertical section pushes the pipe forward in the horizontal section
@rsstnnr76 I do, 1M it's not a lot compared to what the executives make. Actually on this world of craziness 1M it's not that much
Brings back a lot of memories worked on a few offshore rigs surprised they didn't show the living quarters
how are they?
@@B2InFeRnoIcedAxeminecraftI bet they’re pretty nice 🙂
Yeah, thats what I was hoping to see.
@@B2InFeRnoIcedAxeminecraft Think prison conditions and divide it by at least two. I've worked on eight or so rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and Trinidad, and it's miserable in my opinion. EOG Pelican in Trinidad had one operable shower for all the hands, and it was filthy. I worked on BP Horn Mountain in the GOM when the weather was in the 30's, and there was no hot water to shower. That's the kind of conditions you can expect to run into. The food is usually awful contrary to what some may say. That said, some like offshore work because they often work a two week on/two week off schedule. It's not worth it to me. Although I'm glad I got to experience what it's like, I'm never working offshore ever again unless the pay was for all 24 hours of the day at quintuple my normal rate.
The food sounds horrible and boring - no free time spaces to train or have fun : very Russian . Note they did not show the accommodations - bound to be miserable .
Another reason the rig will pump wastewater back into empied cavities is not only to dispose of it, but to also prevent the empty cavities from collapsing and destabilizing the seafloor.
two birds one stone
Makes sense
Isn't it to pressurize the remaining hydrocarbon for further extraction as well?
Makes sense. The ocean surface would be all pot holed and bumpy from the uneven ocean floor. That's why the rest of the ocean is perfectly flat.
It is not a big hole full of oil. The oil and gas is trapped in porous rock. It’s not a lake of oil
It's absolutely mindblowing what we humans can achieve once we decide to work together.
s/can/could/
To dig out fossil fuels, causing climate change and funding war. Imagine what else the brains could achieve
On an individual level we are not all that intelligent. Where our strength has been is collective intelligence, collective knowledge, sociability, and building on that every generation through teaching. The better we have gotten at working together the more civilization has progressed. It is literally what separated us from the rest of the animal kingdom.
You mean, when we are motivated by greed and wealth, right? There are no volunteers working here.
@@michaelg7601 Which is another reason why war and xenophobia are detrimental to our species, if humans could act as one single entity there is nothing we could not achieve together. Nationalism and patriotism are archaic traits, we should all just be proud to be human.
The thought process behind the design is completely mind-blowing
That not too hard, since all physics and chemical simulation do in computer
@@teknosql4740 you do realize computer is not enough to simulate all physics IRL right?
@@edamb6044 no, simulating multi physics and chemical reaction on building like this is not hard for computer, especially on modern computer farm, and you need to know all modern facility that need precision design always using computer design
Lol yeah sure@@teknosql4740
Lol thats what I said
The engineering magic humans can do always blows my mind. Too bad we waste so much away with wars....
😞IKR, SMDH.
I tottaly agree what a wonderful world it would be
War has helped us advance at an incredible speed 🤷♂️.. wouldn’t have most of our tech at home if the government didn’t spend crazy amounts on tech for the military
Amazin engineering. I was hoping to see the living quarters, offices, bathrooms, shops, all of it, not only the cafeteria. I'm guessing it has a rec room and maybe a cinema. Oh well, still, great to see this bit. Thanks for posting it.
No, you were right, this was pure bait N switch. Screw this guy.
Yeah, really wanted to see the whole thing. The outer structure is amazing as well but it's like a floating city, let me see the "city parts".
@@idontthinkso666bait and switch? He showed us everything that’s actually important
@xBluesy you could argue those areas are just as important considering they lives there months at a time, even years..
The fact that they built the columns into the water and then just plopped the rest of the rig on top is unreal
We (American) been doing this since 1930's
What an amazing feat of engineering and design. Thanks for bringing this to us.
Definitely the best thing I’ve seen on KZhead in a while.
The engineering that goes into something like that is amazing
@billymadison4903, yea nuclear power plants are also pretty amazing facilities.
Too bad humanity are too busy killing themselves for who gets what, and how much
makes my brain hurt just thinking how much math is involved lol
right from the opening shots you can tell this thing is something different. Incredible.
The sheer scale and complexity of the thing ... 😯
I've been on 3 regular sized rigs as a temp worker and the absolutely blew my mind with the size and scale. This rig could prob fit those 3 in it easy. Amazes me how they can FLOAT something like that on the ocean and set it down on the legs.
Imagine what we could do if we used these resources for saving our planet, instead of destroying it for profit. Or for researching how we can improve our political systems. But no, we rather stare in awe at a giant piece of metal sticking out of the ocean.
@@nilsp9426shut the fuck up
Mankind builds incredible things like this and yet we have war.
Somebody has to destroy it all eventually. Job security?
Well oil is pretty important if you want fuel for your war...
@@therealalbrechtdurer Yet, you enjoy their products immensely on a daily basis, no? Or, should I say, of every minute of every day sort of basis?
why do u think they invest so much $$$ into it... same reason we have war
War is the driving factor for almost every industrial achievement.
Thanks, Alexey, another great video. What would bother me are the low ceilings. In future models, 3m would be good.
This is wild… it’s like space age technology. Whoever came up with this idea and how to build them are crazy.
I worked at a factory in the UK (Schlumberger) that made a lot of drill bits for these Shell oil was their main customer, this was 20 years ago they were around £40k then I imagine a lot more now. The diamonds were industrial & pressed on small machines around the factory
diamonds aren't actually expensive or rare...they're common. Jewelry diamonds are only made expensive by a few Cartels controlling the rate at which they are put on the market.
After over 100 years, Schlumberger have re-named themselves to SLB, just to confuse the likes of Greta Thumberg 😃 Plus they own Cameron, the company name on the chair in the Drill Shack
Bíg miss! Show the living quarters, Exercise area and how do the employees live
Human engineering will never cease to amaze me
Some of the finest people you ever meet. Work on the rigs for years in the Gulf of Mexico.
Just to build the stuff to build the RIG IS INCREDIBLE.
"When you approach the platform by air, you realise that it really looks like a bird" Me: scratching my head 🤔Have you ever seen a bird? 😂
After watching so many oil-rig disasters this was a really great look inside when things aren't going so wrong!
Wow that's Amazing this job looks very complex you really have to know what you're doing in this kind of work 💯 God bless their Souls who work in this profession 🙏🙌👍
That was awesome. I salute the rig workers in all capacities.
I just watched the movie "The Burning Sea" yesterday and now this pops up in my KZhead recommendations!?! Big brother is watching every keystroke! Great video, by the way. I would like to know the process they go thru to decide where to place a rig of this size.
How many engineers it take to design this amazing contraption.
About the same amount of engineers it takes to change a light bulb. 😉
3 or 4 thousand
Wow...extremely impressive engineering. Wonders never cease to amaze me.
It is truly astounding what humankind can build.
Mankind you pc follower
Aint no women designing this lmaoo
Very informative, thanks for uploading. 👍
Getting a boat and going to one of these oil rigs is probably the best way to survive the zombie apocalypse. These things have hundreds of employees. That means enough food is delivered to last those hundreds of employees for weeks at a time. Mad supplies. Imagine having a group of 4 with the supplies 240 people need
Imagine just eating the other 3 people instead, despite having 4,000 cans of SPAM.
if you're in an apocalypse, how do you think the helicopters and ships are going to bring supplies out? why on earth would you want to be isolated in the middle of the ocean. can't even fish from that rig, once food runs out, you're eating your neighbor
Well cooked arn't ya?
@@cwr8618 No new supplies would be coming. Goal is to find a place with enough stored, stockpiled food whilst being close to somewhere you can get food. Supplies initially intended for 300 people will last a dozen man group for years. Supplementing that with fishing. Also at 2:51 we see the distance from the lowest part of the rig to the water. You can easily put some poles up there with line going deep enough in.
@@nukiesduke6868might be enough food for a bit and possibly fish from there, and they said their desal plant was high tech. but no freedom to roam or expectations the resources would be available or interested in flying or boating to that rig to save anyone amidst their own apocalypse.
How many engineers it take to design this amazing contraption.. INCREDIBLE QUALITY AND DOCUMENTATION!!.
The engineering that goes into designing this and the logistics to assemble it are absolutely mind blowing. Theres a bridge that goes across a frozen sea (i think in the bearing sea but might just be a concept and not built, its a been a while but i THINK its operational) Thats just as mind boggling having to deal with heavy winds and flowing ice.
I love watching this type of educational videos that you cannot imagine how these gigantic inventions are created. Thank you KZhead I am in awe to believe the imaginables.
It's like a massive Tonka toy. Incredible! Thanks for this.
Smart choice to have South Korea build the top sections. Some of the finest technicians and skilled workers anywhere on earth.
They are like machine's
it looks like 👍 they have taken notice of the ocean ranger and piper Alfa disasters
Not really, skilled personnel are all over. South Korea was chosen for the cheap contract labor. For context, this has been my industry for two decades.
@@jbllc6873 a shame countries don't cultivate this Profession like they should I quess ur from a western country where these things are in decline?
The Egyptians who built the pyramids get the gold for me
Absolutely amazing creation! But one thing I didn't hear them mention was, at what depth was the sea floor the platform was resting on?
Pretty damn amazing!
everything you see was carefully engineered, thank you engineers..
Incredible documentary sir - well done - Thank You 👍👍👍
What I saw was an incredibly complex "machine/community" which was very clean. Clearly, many talented people were needed to make this vast machine.
Definitely props to South Korea for being able to design and assemble such an exceptionally complex structure like this. Just watching them put those huge pieces together and imagining the work going into the designs, it's kind of like a space ship. If they keep pushing the limits we're gonna really start looking like aliens ourselves.
I'm a design engineer and m marvelling at the complexity.
I’m not a design engineer, but I’m marveling at the sheer ingenuity at complexity of such engineering. It’s overwhelmingly awesome.
What a marvel of ingenuity and engineering
WOW!! This was great! Thanks for the look in.
Humans are so creative and can build anything 😊
Thats fascinating they can build something like that in the middle of the sea.....just crazy
And yet they can't figure out how to time traffic lights together in cities
Much safer been anchored to the sea bed wow nice video, amazing structure thanks 😮❤
Very nicely done. Most interesting. Thank you!
INCREDIBLE QUALITY AND DOCUMENTATION!!
Wow. Mind officially blown! 😂 unbelievable
Bravo bravo 👏👏 I. Was always Fascinated with OFFSHORE OIL RIGS PLATFORMS I THANK YOU ! They are very very Brave Employee !
I cannot even begin to comprehend this structure or how it was even made... very interesting to watch though, thank you
i cant even imagine how this structure was even thought of being built
white people
I know, where do you even start?
lots of underwater scuba welding@@lynneanthony168
14:04 since pumping out oil leaves empty spaces under the ground, filling it up with useless industrial wastes like dirt, broken debris or rocks from the drilling to prevent the empty space from collapsing is not a bad idea.
“Empty spaces?” Like giant caves, you think? No. More like the little pores in your kitchen sponge.
Wow we have some very,very smart people out there especially when it comes to the engineering of a project like this.
Too many emergency systems that have never been pressed, never been used... If it costs the company millions to shut down for a few hours, are the emergency systems trusted to be tested and maintained?
Good question
Watch deepwater horizon
It's an amazing marvel!
Great documentary. Amazing structure. Can't say I like the DD dumping into the mantle...but I guess they've thought it through.
I have many questions... how did they mate the bottom and top portions in the ocean?
They have some videos on showing exactly that. It's a bit complicated to explain but isn't rocketscience in itself once you see it.
I was hoping on seeing a segment on living quarters, that would have rounded the whole thing off.
Yeah, this guy sucks. Total bait N switch crap.
@@idontthinkso666 i thought the video was great, even if it missed a few parts. you should try making a video and see how it goes
@@idontthinkso666 I feel like he actually stole this video and voice overed it. The guy in the video and his voice are saying completely different things...
Incredible work of engineering. How i missed offshore back in the day. Keep safe everyone.
Bring back a memory when I was in off shore flatform in Abu Dhabi, Zadco and Bundoq
Very impressive!! Unreal how much money is in oil.
it's so incredible what humans can make!!!
Wow! That’s fkin wild dude! So the base of the structure works as an inverted stool. So simple when you really think about it but my mouth still hit the floor when it was explained. It’s astonishing what we can accomplish or achieve when we come together and really put our minds to it.
This is wildly impressive.
Off shore work is tough and challenging but the rewards more than make up for it. If you are a young person running with the wrong crowd then this type of work will be perfect to get you away from that crowd before permanent damage is done. once you have a permanent conviction on your record you will likely be excluded from this type of work as well as even many types of regular work..
Good video with a terrible mistake - Oil and Gas is not contained in the pictured cavities (that the video shows a Caves!) it is stored within the pores of the rock (porosity) and flow (at least on conventional reservoirs) through the interconnection of those pores (permeability).
Thank you for the additional and corection information. Appreciate it❤
Dude, people are stupid. You can't expect them to understand that. People with a 5th grade education can't understand geology. C'mon man!
Yep. Many people make that mistake. Partly from the eco-nuts who complain about fracturing to increase permeability.
amazing engineering design for such a sheer size.
How does the pipe end up going horizontal if it just has a central pipe going straight down?
Practical engineering youtubes channel explains this
It's called directional drilling.
The bit is smart.
Halfway through the manufacturing montage I realized my mouth was wide open. Literally jaw dropping. I want one.
Right? Can you imagine trying to engineer one of these beasts????
Lets give this industry some credit for keeping us safe and warm
Taking that top section on to where it needed to go was probably the most stressful situation I can possibly think of.
Humans are amazing. If elephants or dolphins had opposable thumbs, they'd do this too. If octopi had opposable thumbs, they'd be gods.
What an amazing feat of engineering and design
Astounding... what more can you say!!!
where do they get their power?
They use the oil they extract from the sea bed.
@@aaronjennings8385No it doesn't. The oil it's pumping out is crude, it needs to be refined before it can be used to power anything. Berkut is powered by three Cat 3516B (HD) generator sets that run on diesel fuel.
it showed the generators that power the platform.
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I always wondered how the drills can drill sideways, and do that in a controlled manner.
Simply amazing works for infrastructure.
It's not a floating city its a PLATFORM and is fixed to the sea bed
My claustrophobia would never allow me to work on one of these.
noted
And also your lack of skill
O worked offshore in the high Arctic. Around the north pole. We set the rig up 30 feet of ice. It was basically a Land rig. But our BOP system sat on the ocean floor depth of 2000 ft. We flew everything in on huge cargo plane C130 Hercules 144 loads. Took roughly five weeks to rig it up. The nearest tree was 2500 miles south. Ice as far the eyes can see. Would you believe we had Ravens that far North. And polar bears. Lol
Men built, and maintain this. Total respect.
This is amazing engineering, now let’s apply that ingenuity and know how to things that help us live on Earth instead of destroying it!!
Aliens must have a hand on this one.
An amazing engineering achievement!
Absolutely fascinating!
You'd think the important buttons like the SHUTDOWN one would be behind glass. Someone not thinking and accidentally pressing it is bound to happen.
I’m guilty of doing that before however that full panel of buttons on modern platforms are all shutdown buttons of various types so are never touched hopefully
It's actually hard to believe this only costs one billion, I'd guess the price would be closer to 5-10 billion
Well, if it were made by union labor in the states the 10 billion would be accurate.
@@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh Very good point.
@@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh lmfao how do not know unions already been used.
@@Cosmicmonkeyman This was made in Russia and Korea. Don't know don't care if Korean or Russian unions were used, do know that US unions were not used thus the price and timelines are not egregiously inflated. There is a reason that we went from the ship building capital of the world to less than 1% of ship building and almost all of that is due to government requirements to buy domestic for certain things not because it's in the least bit competitive. Unions with mob connections and other connections to the Decorate parties are corrupt as fug and destroy domestic production.
@@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh It was built almost entirely by Daewoo and engineered/operated by Exxon, which makes sense because it would never be completed if the Russians had to build it. They mostly just put up money. If you think US unions are bad (and they are. I don't disagree), try doing business in Russia. It's like the mob runs the place. Also, the project did cost over $10 billion. Not sure why the video says only $1 billion.
Very fascinating. Great video
Brilliant and amazing documentary!
Another prideful moment of quality Russian manufacture, made in Korea, lul.
A Russian film?
full blown russian propaganda under disguise of 'science'
it sure is
Great job to the highly skilled Korean workers who built this!
Very interesting and well presented.