Posted on 11/25/2015 6:16:07 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
Anadarko's Heidelberg Spar has made the 400 mile trip from Ingleside, Texas to its new home at the Green Canyon 859 block in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, where it has now been upended.
(Excerpt) Read more at gcaptain.com ...
Quite the feat.
Wow! That’s some serious work going on. Very impressive.
Check out www.marinetraffic.com ,a pretty cool look at Global trade routes at sea.
NeatO!
Off shore in the gulf is a fascinating place. Dangerous as all git-out but that’s what makes it fun.
Awesome! You have to really admire all the men and women working on that project — that’s some serious large-scale business. It reminds me of my days starting up new coal-fired utility boilers in terms of size of equipment.
What was that collection of small spindly long tubes on the bottom of the spar? They look to be way too small to support the structure.
While watching the video I was thinking this is not a work environment that tolerates any lapses of attention. You have to bring your A game to work everyday. ;)
They looked like anchor points. But what do I know...
Absolutely, lots of unforgiving heavy stuff moving every which way with very squishable humans clambering all over it. Second most dangerous and excitable job I ever had.
That was my first thought. Maybe they are designed to sheer off in a big storm? They look like toothpicks in relation to that beast.
I think they'd run huge steel wires to points already on the seabed, and tighten the bejeez out of them. Same thing they'd do for a suspension or cable-stayed bridge
In fact, same thing they did for the east side of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Very few people know that is just one wire holding up the entire "suspension" span just off Treasure Island.
It just dawned on me that this a floating rig that doesn't rest on the bottom -- duh. Lots of design info at New designs advance spar technology into deeper water. Article is 17 years old, however.
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