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Element 18

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Oil Rigs – Technological Innovation – Big Bigger Biggest

Video Overview & Insights

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.

STUNNING MASTERPIECE OF ENGINEERING.

— @chudykay3880

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

This is real engineering; what we do in IT is nothing compared to what they are doing here.

— @QuickAssTech

02:47 Water – Grand Lake

09:54 Foundation – Grand Isle

They are killers of Earth...like Deepwater Horizon...

— @gregstepien9374

17:39 Standing Firm – Beryl Alpha

27:52 Assembly – Cognac

It is now the gulf of the United States of America 😂

— @wsoJC

38:00 Buoyancy – Auger

44:50 Fire – Perdido

Poland has to invest into this it needs a ocean oil rig meby it should buy it off usa come on down and help Poland drill oil for europe and north america.

— @aleksanderkuncwicz7277

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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6:30 All you need to know.

— @Heakz

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Great job... you drilled yourself into your own lifemare..making the planet weigh less making the whole solar system unbalanced..

@MultiverseTechnologies1994
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😊😊😊...

@ricohernandez7941
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I wonder why we dont get shows like this anymore?
What changed?

@watchout5508
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So fascinating, I would like to work on an oil rig, how do I join?

@TenmenMlambo-k6y
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Where’s the Gulf of Mexico?

@motor4151
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34:00 min at Byford Dolphin it went catastrophic wrong. saturation diving on duty is by far the most brutal job a can imagine

@SebastianBeyer
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Watch out before the US pirates steal the rigs after they’re done with tankers

@asilentmajority
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I watched deeply the arc welder welding the diamond tips on drill blades,, with brass
Welding rods ,,after weld the tip he tempered them in oil,,,then test,,,,,, 😎👀👌

@FazalakbarKhan-c
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Damn music

@MelbyDK
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Great Explanation and wonderful graphics!

@madpeppermcginiss373
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Gulf of Mexico 🇲🇽 always and forever,orange clown

@chance6298
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SpermTube, amount of females grinding in lingerie and delete a clothed 69, representing the solar system. The amount of humans having sex that I pay for out of pocket, yes government funding. the amount of prophecy over symbolic clothing, jewelry, cooking supplies, medical, etc. fuck your vertical father and sun, 🚽 covering the holy spirit #PERdido indeed fuck head ☀⛩🪢 The sun is 27 million degrees fahrenheit and im holding the conveyor belt.

@PentagonUSAGI
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Well explained❤❤❤

@mukeshpunnu5888
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1/3 part of globe 🌎 turned in carbon monoxide foam around population, what gain from these fumes ,,🙏,, century ago people live enjoy the world but now ,,fresh water, green land

@FazalakbarKhan-c
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I fully respect the people who take on the responsibility of these platforms. But why do they get used then left to rot away. Apparently there's some people who doesn't believe all the stuff the leave in the earth's water is waste, or anyway impacting anything in it. Every barrel extracted adds to negative effects to the planet.

@BaggerVance-b2e
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Quite good, thanks. My only slight complaint is: too much digital pizzazz. I'm old school. I'd rather see real pics than razzle dazzle digital graphics.

@TimorKen
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the suction anchor look like something I bought online

@HoldinLong
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What happens if there is an explosion/fire or other emergancy and the platform needs to evacuate?

Specifically the saturation divers. If they are only three days into representation of a 9 day process. The divers vant just come out of the divers barracks into the open air to escape. Is there a floating ecape preasure chamber they can stay in nut still get off the rig?

@Gijoeottrod
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In this earth lands everywhere is materials on the groubd that depend on your knowing or knowledge to understand, if you just after the simple things with following the governments systems of the world that your humans never would understand the earth well enough and not quality to living in earth, you might just go to the wars of governments systems setup and die from it be dine with.

@ehelenhelgasone
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8:55 "I drink your milkshake, I DRINK IT UP!"

@janruudschutrups9382
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Little do we know that oil will be our downfall

@DevonWeygertze
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People protest, they think everything runs with fairydust and Unicorn piss. When they get cold, there car don't go. They don't like Nuclear power although it is very safe. So far with all the big fans and mirrors it hasn't shown anything, look at Europe.

@MichaelStokes-c6u
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So , what about Jack up rigs?

@bigpeter2767
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How many meters? Why not use clicks or space units?

@bigpeter2767
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Wrong information about golden lake. The first ever oil was extracted in water , was built in Azerbaijan, Absheron Peninsula

@elvintahirli4766
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So educational master piece of science and innovation

@kamyastephen-s2t
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Just incredible

@earleburtonjr9292
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This program is fantastic, I remember that watching it in Spanish, now in English is even better, Greetings

@martinleiva1232
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Salute. Thank you for your hardworking creating this video, the concept, the script, the scenario and pulling out videos back to 18’s helped us viewer to realized this. Bravo and keep up the good work.

@chilllet7977
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"We don't need men"

@Joshua-draws
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Realy I will like this Oil Rigs to be mine

@IoanBota-v9l
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This feels like a 2000s TV documentary

@Joshua-draws
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As an expert on this topic, this gentleman doesn't understand this issue. He's an entertainer. He should do better research but yes these platforms and associated wells should be plugged.

@mikew4642
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We don't need more "innovations" in oil. We need to fully adopt renewable energy. Oil is dirty, destructive, exploitative, and doesn't clean up after itself. From end to end, just pollutes our waters and air. I like clean air and oceans, don't you?

@DavidM979
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And all this started with a Wildcater in a bayou 🤑

@jamestregler1584
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This is very good video , thx 🎉

@forgotfjfjdjcjsjc
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The living quarters should double as a safety container. Detatch from the rig and flloat away as a ship.

@chaka-cca
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I helped convert the Clyde Budro from an old Russian prison to the oil rig it is today. In Pascagula, MS. At International Shipyard back in the mid 2000's as a Pipefitter/Pipe welder.

@HumanityAwakenZ
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If all nationsbandbraves could get along, imagine what in hell we'd have.

@seanleaf3165
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It’s fascinating how much energy is used to create the wells, the rig, the supplies, the shipping, the helicopters, all the mining activities to build all infrastructure and machinery, the refineries etc compared to how much energy gets recovered from the reservoir just to feed back into the overall process ecosystem to keep it all going.

@joeyzagari4155
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@josueizquierdo8127
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I’ve found different results with a different approach. More about that in my recent upload.

@ChainReactio
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29:49 tighten it up by hand 🤔

@melodynote333
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When i was child, i always wonder how they build Offshore oil rig

@joker-was-aman