This Gigantic Floating Oil Platform Is Steam Powered | Richard Hammond's Big
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- čas přidán 11. 06. 2020
- Richard Hammond visits one of the world's largest oil platforms in the world, the sixteen story high Appomattox, and takes a look at the brilliant engineering behind the floating mechanism and how it generates its own power through steam.
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They say it can't be flipped, but I also noticed that they didn't let Richard drive it either.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Richard "Scandinavian Flick" Hammond
Come on..... All these guys have Uni degrees......They are not risk takers.
This chap is quite nice at presenting stuff. He would be really cool if he presented car related stuff too
@Nishawn Birak sarcasm....
@Nishawn Birak you know he isn't right?
@Nishawn Birak He's not on Top Gear though....
@Nishawn Birak mohaha!
@Nishawn Birak No he's not 🙄
I just love watching Hammond geek out over Engineering
The platform is the size of a table, it's just that Hammond is just that small
What about the project manager that Hammond was talking to?
@@guyincognito3530 and thats a dutch person so he'll be about 8 feet
@@JaapvandenBerg He's just a toddler.
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This platform is taking the saying, "Getting high on your own supply" to a whole new meaning.
This is far better than those top comments talking about hammonds height which is major yawn.
You can see at 3:40 that the yellow crossbeams have a spiral around them, this prevents Kármán vortices from forming in high winds and causing heavy vibrations.
Neat
pretty cool. usually see those on furnace stacks/flares.
Saw that but had no idea why they had that shape and its purpose. Awesome, thanks!
similar idea as burj khalifa
Hammond has talked about them on one of his engineering programmes before!
It's called Richard Hammond's Big because anything looks big next to him
Congrats on being the 6,657,676th person to say that
notGoldy 1403 thanks for counting mate
Or gigantic
Well it's not going to be called Richard hammond slightly larger than average is it?
Nice
as a dutchie im proud of our crazy dutch accent and that we have people designing those mega structures
I was searching for this comment 🙌
Me 2
Peter Treur m2 hahaha
Oil : not a single word
the Dutch : G E K O L O N I S E E R D
@poposmoko You mean Dutch engineers
in a sense almost everything is steam powered. Be it nuclear cores, coal, etc the heat is just used to boil water and drive a turbine. I think only solar panels, dams, and wind turbines aren't built around that.
There's also internal-combustion power generation, not super common but notable, as well as gas turbines. This case is actually a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) cogeneration system, I'd be interested in how much power comes from the gas turbines versus the steam heat recovery system - I'd make a wild guess that at least 2/3 is from the gas turbine directly.
There are RTGS also
And yet Wind Turbines and Dams are still built around the principle of spinning a bit of copper. Pretty much 90% of electricity being generated today is based on this principle.
@@quillmaurer6563 everyone forgets tidal energy however inefficient it may currently be
In another sense... everything is solar powered. Wind is generated by rising air heated by the sun. Plants use photosynthesis to store energy which after millions of years turns to oil, gas and coal. Everything can be traced back to the sun.
I love Hammond’s little sticker name tag on the front of his helmet
Vegetarian owning a burger shop hahaha
😂🤣😂🤣
It took me a few seconds to get it
Just think about it, it's so fascinating that every single piece of technology on this platform was carefully designed by a person. Every single pump, dial, motor, computer.. imagine all the work it took to assemble all this and bring out to sea.
The extremely careful planning and coordination involved in moving all the different bits and bobs. Really amazing what humans can accomplish.
on the shell youtube channel they said it took nearly a million man hours of design and assembly
Dude needs to finish the next episode of the grand tour
they finished filming a long time ago, they are waiting for the editors and amazon to finish.
The whole episode is finished now, edited and all they are just waiting for Amazon to release it now
4:06 looks beautiful,like a house decorated for Christmas.
christmas is nothing compared to the anniversary of the best comeback ever. 4-0. sorry mate.
@@dylanjohnstone5119 Congratulations and don't forget the 3:0 before that and also thank Jordi Alba and Rakitic for winning you the game.
I had the pleasure working on this project!
It still blows my mind that those things float... That's insane
Is there a Krusty Burger on this platform?
For those who dont know his name check his helmet
Ermm Nah mate. I'd rather just Google it :-P
@@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM Me: Okay Google, "Who is Richard Hammond's name".
"Richard Hammond's Big."
No, no he isn't.
Pretty sure that was the whole idea behind the name.
@@evandavis5223 yep,and it worked. every top comment is talking about it and repeating the same joke.
His bank account is though. He still wins.
Of course it's designed by a Dutch engineer. They know their stuff when it comes to the sea.
also the company is dutch
NEDERLAND HOOLIGANS
The platform was designed in Houston, TX mostly by Americans.
rms3 But dutch company
@@thimo476 actually, Shell is an US subsidiary of Royal Dutch primarily staffed by Americans.
“It’s free power”
........it’s free real estate.......
18.75% royalty rate isn't exactly free....
more like DIY power
This oil rig is so clean!
The Henry Goodrich took a 31.48m wave hit during a storm in the North Atlantic in 2018. It handled the wave like a champ.
This is awesome. As a person totally fascinated by all things Industrial, I'd love to spend a week or so just running around and learning about everything that's going on. And, all things considered, it's green, too!
I never knew the weather was out there until Hammond told me
Thanks
That platform is beyond impressive.
These videos are awesome. More more more
Always wanted a job on an offshore rig... and that rig is the dream now lol
Big Boss was onto something.
You had me at steam powered, and Richard Hammond.
Amazing stuff love it!!
Whenever I see Richard Hammond in a thumbnail I just go for it.
Holy macaroni just the changing of the light bulbs on that thing has got to be a 1 person full time job!
It’s amazing that humanity has progressed far enough to build something like this
And yet not fare enough not to need it. :)
To add to the “big” the Appomattox is floating in 7,000ft of water pulling from 15 well heads, it’s a monster and a go to for a lot of our offshore fishing
3:43 I love Richard 😎vegetarian running a burger shop 😎
Worked the oil fields in ND, WY & PA for 2 years. Would love to go offshore man.
Thanks for your information sir 👍🙏🏻
This thing is just amazing
It's called a combined-cycle power plant.
They are the most efficient thermal power plants around. Reaching thermal efficiency of up to 60%.
Using gas from their own well in a gas turbine makes so much sense, one wonders why this isn't much more common.
I'd be willing to bet it's down to large capital costs. I doubt very much that they're just plugging unrefined gasses into their turbines, which means they'd have to refine it on-site.
@BirdyLegs
Yea, up-front cost is my guess as well.
Sure, it costs some money up front, but not having to order thousands of cubic meters of diesel fuel out to sea must offset that quickly.
See it happen where I work - allthough on a smaller scale: Those with the economics degree seem terribly afraid of investing money and are willing to accept unneccesary high operational costs just to keep that up-front price tag down.
Petroleum engineering student here, the main reason I know of that it isn’t common to use your own products for power is cost. It takes a lot of energy, and a lot of equipment to get raw hydrocarbons to the point that it can be burnt in a finely tuned engine. Not to mention that natural gas is extremely volatile/dangerous to store and is very difficult to store in large quantities, especially in an environment like an offshore rig. Also, while not super common for offshore rigs, the price of natural gas can get high enough that it is worth selling the natural gas from off shore rigs, so having it be required to power the rig isn’t ideal. That does not necessarily apply to this particular rig because it is an deep-water, mostly exploratory (as opposed to production) rig as I understand it.
also alot easier to pass the idea with a low upfront cost. it just sounds better and cheaper. same idea as saying 9.99 instead of 10
Will Russell That’s not entirely accurate. I work on the turbine generators, turbine compressors and turbine water injection pumps on platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. It is very common to use natural gas to power the rig. It’s free energy. Having natural gas on a rig is just part of the job. Precautions are taken to prevent any spark, all the way down to intrinsically safe flashlights. Don’t worry. The smoking area is limited to a specific deck on the crew quarters. The deck for grilling the steaks is also safely away. I didn’t see a drilling rig on that platform so I’d say it’s a production platform just churning out millions of barrels of oil and million of cubic feet of gas.
I want to see them build more of this platform
wow great job
seeing how successful that oil rig is and knowing how much oil there really is under the sea floor there is no way that marvel will be one of a kind for long. I can guarantee that one is already planned with improvements on top of this current rig.
Very interesting and educational.
wow this is really cool. This rig was built in the town I live in.
Essentially a massive floating, oil mining, power station, nice
I operated offshore platforms for 30 years...1980 to 2010...….don't miss it.
3:40 It's electric! Boogie woogie woogie!
I found out where all the rich people will be hiding in the event of a nuclear war
No, it's for a zombie apocalypse
They have bunkers.
If you read world war Z, the novel. You know it's not safe out there in the ocean.
@@despairgaming6669 It's a Fallout reference, people.
@@despairgaming6669 why not?
What a legendary guy
Last time I saw that many lights was when I built a house in minecraft to stop mobs from spawning 😂
very nice
"vegetarian running a burger shop", hahaha. I almost forgot, Richard Hammond is a great story teller. I missed the original trio of BBC Top Gear show.
Ingenious
yessssss Hammond i like the classic range rover defender
"Late summer hurricane season" Man, we already started.
"Put that into context" 😂 same bro
nice
That be a cool job
Mother nature from to time has taught us that nothing can beat its forces.
More oil platforms....just what we need
It's called a combined cycle power plant. They are used all over the world. Still it's really cool that they use their own gas.
That oil Riggs nothing more than a giant industrial floating city
Production Platform.
Shaddap Hammong!
2:02 that snail think around the round steel beam is that reinforcement from wave impacts ? i could only see it as being that
Believe it's to avoid vorticies forming during hurricane force winds. Helps interrupt and disrupt the wind, stopping it from vibrating and shaking.
3:38 why isn't this symmetrical!!
Yes I have OCD but not everything symmetrical.
It's made to accommodate efficiency.
No point having a 10 meter wide platform with nothing on it.
Why _would_ it be symmetrical!?
other than Juna's points, it might be weight distribution. Lets just believe the center of mass is symmetrical to us OCD dudes
theres a massive bridge if you look close enough. its covering part of the crossbeams
this thing has more lights on it than my neighbors house during Christmas holydays
i feel like oil rigs in that fashion are a great way of showwing how we could live on another planet, producing there own power and with large delays for any replacement parts kinda cool its a man made island ON the sea
Wow 😳 baby kingDom 🤩
I am mind blown
Future category 6 hurricane : *hmm looks nice*
Nice islands
Great piece of technology. I however would not feel sad for a Moment if it would become obsolet. And i hope it does soon.
You Kno the tuna are popping that rig 24/7.
This just reminds me of Just Cause 2 and Just Cause 3.
Looking at the oil platform and knowing that soon it will be irrelevant is strange.
Fertilizer, plastic and a billion other uses like pharmaceuticals means it won't be irrelevant, ever.
@@NorHeadHunter well what makes you think that the world won't run out of oil? in case you didn't know there's only 30- 40 years left tops
I don't recall the amount of life this platform was designed for (maybe 40 years?), but most platforms aren't designed for life past a couple decades. I have friends who designed a lot of the control systems for this platform.
@@NightshiftCustom Peak oil is a myth, current proven reserves might run out in 30-40 years, but the thing is that we don't know how much oil is out there because the oil we currently know about has to run out before it becomes economically viable to look for more.
Same with most minerals.
I always thought these were just built into the ground and wondered how they built so deep
It's a floating facility kept at a specific spot with subsea mooring lines. It is use for deep waters
Some of them are built into the ground! Only closer to the coast though. Everything deep water like this is floating
Cool
That thing is lit up like a Christmas tree!
Refineries are integrated. This is not a new notion. This is just wonderful, nigh artistic, offshore implementation.
Do the documentary also with the Nuclear Power Plant.
Awsome Rig. Don't let Covid shut it down..
You could survive a zombie apocalypse on one of these things. Now THAT'S a show I'd watch... I might make it.
imagine looking at this thing and being from the early 1900s
how many years and how much manpower does it take to build these behemoth of an engineering miracle?
"Boss, Welcome to our new home. Our new Motherbase"
I'm waiting to quiet to pop up at the video!
I respect engineers
Probably THE BEST fishing spot too 😂
A 4-legged ship, nice.
So it's actually natural gas powered and they make steam with the waste heat from the natural gas turbines for some additional power.
And they tell us that we have limited oil when they build monsters like this.
thats how most of the global electricity is generated, by burning coal or oil and and with that heating steam.
the only difference here is that they use a jet engine to heat the steam
Yes, it's a dual system, very efficient, they extract the last drop of energy from that gas. (Also, that steam must be useful for a lot of other stuff there.)
It's a combined cycle gas generation plant. Nothing new on land, but it is the first time it is used on an offshore installation, as normally they have gas turbines only.
I fish around that rig all the time.
I can’t believe this is floating 😳😳
That platform when its nighttime is the same as my house in minecraft... Lots of lots of lights
He was so surprised when he learned it's steam powered. He probably never heard about a nuclear power plant.
He's doing that for the cameras to make the show more interesting. It would be very dull to watch if he just outright said he knew everything he was being told. He needs to connect with the audience.
@@DylRicho Of course he's not acting surprised for the engineer that's telling him. I just wanted to point out that it's not that extraordinary
A NUCLEAR POWER PRODUCTION PLATFORM WOULD NOT BE WORTH THE COST OF A CONVENTIONALLY POWERED PLATFORM.LONG TERM AUX POWER TO SHORE VIA PWR(DUEL FUEL/DUEL PURPOSE PLATFORM) WOULD BE IDEAL IN A SEA OF TRANQUILITY.ARE YOU WILLING TO PAY FOR IT,THEY WANT THEIR MONEY SIR.
@@terrelmchenry9524 Stop shouting. And noone suggested running this on nuclear power. It's the (to the masses) surprising fact that big land based nuclear power plants are actually steam engines burning uranium instead of coal.
doing oilrig with the boys
what would be interesting is how they connect the drilling bit with the plattform and how they prevent it from tearing during storms
The wells have been drilled by a drilling ship and have subsea xmas trees (set of valves on top of the wells). The oil from the wells is transferred to the platform by mean of flexible pipelines called risers. There is no drilling on that particular platform
@@simonescelsa great comment! Thanks for educating me on the matter :)
A nice video.Most oil and gas production platforms are fueled by the gas they produce because it’s cheaper and easier than import fuel. In addition fuel gas is gas that can’t be sold so it’s cheaper but not free.
thats a dutch guy, mr de jong, sounds like my old geography teacher
Using on premise produced gast as a power source for the generators is pretty common on the North Sea. Diesel generator just for backup.
well the jet engines probably run a high RPM gearbox and then a main Generator, however they probably also use the exhaust gas to boil some water up and run some secondary generators for improved efficiency. Nevertheless most power is driven by the engine through a shaft. Also I'm wondering where do they store processed hydrocarbons, I can't see any significant storage compartments. Does it only work when a ship is coupled with the platform? Also I don't see any drilling towers or anything, I suppose a drill ship creates the installation and places the intake and then they just plug this platform in it?