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WATCH: Heidelberg Spar Upended in Gulf of Mexico
gcaptain.com ^ | November 24, 2015 | Mike Schuler

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.

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TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: drill; gulf; oil

1 posted on 11/25/2015 6:16:07 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Quite the feat.


2 posted on 11/25/2015 6:26:32 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Wow! That’s some serious work going on. Very impressive.


3 posted on 11/25/2015 6:55:25 AM PST by Starboard
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

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4 posted on 11/25/2015 7:05:14 AM PST by DSGustEd120
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To: crusty old prospector

NeatO!


5 posted on 11/25/2015 7:07:29 AM PST by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: Starboard

Off shore in the gulf is a fascinating place. Dangerous as all git-out but that’s what makes it fun.


6 posted on 11/25/2015 7:07:32 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

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.


7 posted on 11/25/2015 8:00:09 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: fella

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. ;)


8 posted on 11/25/2015 9:00:07 AM PST by Starboard
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
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.

They looked like anchor points. But what do I know...

9 posted on 11/25/2015 9:41:32 AM PST by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: Starboard

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.


10 posted on 11/25/2015 9:46:48 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: JRios1968

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.


11 posted on 11/25/2015 9:48:39 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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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.

12 posted on 11/25/2015 9:55:54 AM PST by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: JRios1968
Those are the tubes that hold the drill strings...

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.

13 posted on 11/25/2015 10:20:28 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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