After a safety induction we desided to go outside and just familise with the location. And there was a supply boad next to the rig wich shipped cargo, food and other stuff.
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They use a crane to lift containers "on main deck"
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these rig parts are connected with a bridge.
Heavy doors to make cahmbers "gas proof". Imoprtant on a production platform for natural gas.
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people sitting in front of the control panel and solving problems. We noticed that there is a new well to be started up and this is not allways so easy.
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It is surely very interesting how to start up a gas plant
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watching again the trends of production
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and alarms, flowrates and all this stuff.
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They told us, that this is a new part of this rig. It is called RAT. It stands for "riser access tower"
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So we walked to the RAT and there is pretty much technics, hydraulics, pipes, pumps and calbles.
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On the end there is a balkon and it is nice to see the waves…
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Hey Paul, look back! There is the crane and the tower. What is the tower for?
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Well Hans we ask for this later. Let us have a seat on the pipeline.
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huge switches they have on here…. Haha
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look Hans, screws in stainless steel!
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And here we see one of the control systems.
Hey Paul, there is a seal!
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Yeah Hans, I heard that here are many of them….. Nice!
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another chopper is bringing some parts.
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Yes Paul! And the wind from the helicopter has blown my hat away. Shit! Now he is swimming to england and I never will get him back….
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Hey Paul, don´t pull the cable, becaus the guys need this havy tool!
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OK Hans! In this case I will give Hein a hand and serv him some t-raps!
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