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  • čas přidán 10. 03. 2021
  • Richard Hammond visits the Appomattox Oil Platform in the Gulf Of Mexico to learn how it's engineered to drill and pump oil.
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  • @lewisdoherty7621
    @lewisdoherty7621 Před 3 lety +116

    I always liked the description years ago that it is like standing on the roof of a ten story building and trying to drill a hole in the sidewalk with a noodle. By now, there needs to be more stories added.

  • @stevencombescure6928
    @stevencombescure6928 Před 3 lety +44

    Tony Stark is having a blast. Great to see him so excited.

  • @SmittyAccess
    @SmittyAccess Před 2 lety +25

    Meet Richard when I was out there. He’s a really nice guy.

    • @lindaking4780
      @lindaking4780 Před 2 lety +2

      Hi do you have to pay for the helicopter to take you back to shore.

    • @SmittyAccess
      @SmittyAccess Před 2 lety +6

      @@lindaking4780 no the company that owns the platform pays for the helicopter ride. In the this case it’s shell oil.

    • @lindaking4780
      @lindaking4780 Před 2 lety +3

      Dose that apply to all off shore oil rigs do you know.

    • @SmittyAccess
      @SmittyAccess Před 2 lety +4

      @@lindaking4780 yes that applies to all oil rigs and platforms. I work for a third-party company which means I fly out to all different kinds of platforms and oil rigs as well as boats. It cost these companies thousands of dollars for a one-way flight there’s no way the workers would be able to pay for that

    • @lindaking4780
      @lindaking4780 Před 2 lety +2

      How about Aberdeen do you know and thank you for your reply’s

  • @FlakAlley
    @FlakAlley Před 3 lety +111

    A floating city!

  • @neil5006
    @neil5006 Před rokem +7

    Even the most hardened Green Peace activist would be impressed by that facility!! Awesome 👍

  • @Cat-Washing-ton
    @Cat-Washing-ton Před 3 lety +60

    Hammond: "Nothing on this platform is lightweight, is it"
    Justin: "Just you"

  • @UnProj
    @UnProj Před rokem +2

    Haha, I heard the Louisiana accent and immediately thought, "this should be interesting to see if Hammond can follow along"

    • @musicmanfelipe
      @musicmanfelipe Před 11 měsíci +2

      I work on a drilling ship in the Gulf and being able to understand a Cajun accent is definitely a requirement.

  • @Bavarian_M
    @Bavarian_M Před 2 lety +14

    Love Richard !!! Thank you for showing us this stuff!!

  • @dannyauthement1604
    @dannyauthement1604 Před 3 lety +49

    I helped hook the pipelines up to the platform, it’s a BIG platform

  • @luckycharms3859
    @luckycharms3859 Před 3 lety +155

    $400,000 an hour? Wait till Hammond hears about the $400,000,000 an hour lost from the Suez Canal

  • @AudieHolland
    @AudieHolland Před rokem +4

    That officer in charge was cool.
    He's the only actual Cajun person I have heard talking.
    All other times was in the movies: Southern Comfort (1981), The Waterboy (1998).

    • @williamshockley7692
      @williamshockley7692 Před 10 měsíci

      Look for videos of _"Justin Wilson"_ Cajun Chef and _"Stalecracker Official"_ Cajun Cooking.

  • @Ascertivus
    @Ascertivus Před 3 lety +4

    That's an amazing piece of construction!

  • @kresimirmilisa5560
    @kresimirmilisa5560 Před 2 lety +2

    good video of floating oil platform tour and talking to workers.

  • @cn8585
    @cn8585 Před 3 lety +4

    Very interesting, thank you Richard :)

  • @SaeedKhan-op3by
    @SaeedKhan-op3by Před 2 lety +2

    I was thankful for the subtitles lol

  • @devo1977s
    @devo1977s Před 3 lety +41

    That choke valve could probably survive re-entry from obit lol

    • @jaysharma9987
      @jaysharma9987 Před 2 lety +3

      it definitely will.

    • @treyfisse3230
      @treyfisse3230 Před 2 lety +7

      Yep. If the internals of that choke were to completely fail, that whole facility would have a major problem. That platform would be shut-in and the operators would have a shit load of explaining to do that’s why SCADA chokes (Supervisory Control And Data Aquisition) reign supreme. Basically constant monitoring

  • @screamulous
    @screamulous Před 3 lety +1

    I love this guy

  • @brodyschreiber-ko3mn
    @brodyschreiber-ko3mn Před rokem

    Great rig

  • @chloehennessey6813
    @chloehennessey6813 Před rokem +1

    He got so giddy when the guy said “yea! Let’s take it apart” and he found out that he can actually help.

  • @widowmakergarage
    @widowmakergarage Před 10 měsíci

    1:31 love how even tho I’m Italian I’m in Florida and I understood every word Todd said😂

  • @princemkandawiref6963
    @princemkandawiref6963 Před rokem +2

    That's why l love Engineering 🔥🔥🔥

  • @Samurai_2029
    @Samurai_2029 Před 3 lety +6

    Like a City in the ocean

  • @insane_in_da_membrane_
    @insane_in_da_membrane_ Před 3 lety +56

    hes there four days, and the whole video is only 9mins long.. -_-
    wish it was longer ^^

    • @apexinstinct
      @apexinstinct Před 3 lety +4

      It's only a clip of the a TV episode

    • @insane_in_da_membrane_
      @insane_in_da_membrane_ Před 3 lety +3

      @@apexinstinct i cant find the whole episode T_T 😅
      (5mins later) eureka! found it! thnks for lettin me know that its just a clip of it ^^v

    • @apexinstinct
      @apexinstinct Před 3 lety

      @@insane_in_da_membrane_ No problem mate 😂👍🏻

    • @randomguy8476
      @randomguy8476 Před 3 lety

      @@apexinstinct What's it called?

    • @apexinstinct
      @apexinstinct Před 3 lety +1

      @@randomguy8476 I don't know sorry but these clips are taken from the series on quest.

  • @2061526
    @2061526 Před 3 lety +7

    you must have way complex fire extinguishers there

  • @charlessilverfox906
    @charlessilverfox906 Před 3 lety +10

    That's amazing "wow" What a job I don't know if I could live on there for any amount of time, the first thing that comes to mind when I first started watching is storms don't know why but ya pretty cool 👍😎 and scary 😒🙁😢😭 all at the same time. 🇨🇦

    • @barrets6226
      @barrets6226 Před 2 lety +1

      It's not that bad, I was on appomattox from Feb 2019 to October 2020. You typically would work 14/14 or 21/21.

  • @dinolundy05_50
    @dinolundy05_50 Před 3 lety +1

    I do live in Louisiana so thats cool

  • @sophieknobloch2806
    @sophieknobloch2806 Před rokem +1

    If you’re fluent in Creole …. 😂😂 I luv Creole.

  • @notreallyasloth
    @notreallyasloth Před 3 lety +4

    2:49
    I don't remember this part of MGS2 🤔

  • @amirulzailan9388
    @amirulzailan9388 Před 3 lety

    Wow

  • @cmomofilm
    @cmomofilm Před měsícem

    Flying on those S92s is not bad, one of the better choppers I fly on.

    • @seanwatts8342
      @seanwatts8342 Před měsícem

      Where do you usually fly from?

    • @cmomofilm
      @cmomofilm Před měsícem

      @@seanwatts8342 Sumburgh or Aberdeen.

    • @seanwatts8342
      @seanwatts8342 Před měsícem +1

      @@cmomofilm I'm a little farther west... New Orleans, Louisiana but you might infer by my name my dad's family immigrated from Aberdeen generations ago.

  • @einen9325
    @einen9325 Před 3 lety +2

    Okai i would really like to know how this critical part broke.
    I mean is that normal?
    I like how Richard Hammond seems just exited really cool series.

    • @social3ngin33rin
      @social3ngin33rin Před 3 lety +1

      Efficient companies know approximately how long until something will break, which part is likely to break, and which parts/tools you will likely want to get before heading to the site. Humanity has been gathering oil longer than the automobile has existed, I hope this oil company has everything down to a basic routine.
      McDonald's knows everything about every machine they use, down to the air conditioning units. For $400,000/hr, the oil company better know how to get it quickly repaired lol

  • @themodmaster6593
    @themodmaster6593 Před 3 lety +2

    Anyone know how long crates got left?

  • @benediktwugk3063
    @benediktwugk3063 Před 3 lety +8

    i dont know why this is giving me memories of the deep blue horizon. And its not a good feeling

    • @karebear4485
      @karebear4485 Před 3 lety

      It’s Deepwater Horizon and yeah i was thinking the same thing

  • @privatesector0422
    @privatesector0422 Před 3 lety +2

    Kind of feels like Waterworld.

  • @illumi747
    @illumi747 Před 2 lety +1

    i love how the accent was so thick they had to fucking subtitle it

    • @braidena1633
      @braidena1633 Před rokem

      i dont even think they needed it here. kinda uncle ruckus like

  • @DavidBcc
    @DavidBcc Před 3 lety +13

    4:09 Reverse that statement. What that means is that they're literally printing $400.000 every hour.

    • @dathanchevli7514
      @dathanchevli7514 Před 3 lety

      Those oils rigs have not been making money for years. These were built when oil was over $100 a barrel. It has not been anywhere near that for years.

    • @loganleray6694
      @loganleray6694 Před 2 lety

      There making money not as much though, you have to think the amount of money time and equipment just to drill it, then frack cement and then flow it though this platform we’re talking billions of dollars in debt before they even start producing

  • @lloyd6809
    @lloyd6809 Před 3 lety +1

    How does a rig like that drill for oil without a derrick? shouldn't it be called a processing platform instead of oil?

  • @benmacauley4147
    @benmacauley4147 Před 3 lety

    big

  • @maemae7063
    @maemae7063 Před 3 lety

    Own by which company? Shell

  • @Camdem101
    @Camdem101 Před 3 lety +1

    Wait is this Nick Beans oil rig?

  • @dustin628
    @dustin628 Před 3 lety +13

    Who really needed the subtitles though?

    • @MrMaple-iq1sh
      @MrMaple-iq1sh Před 3 lety +12

      Me, who isn't a native English speaker.

    • @dustin628
      @dustin628 Před 3 lety +1

      @@MrMaple-iq1sh lol good point, makes sense. Yeah their accent can be really thick, but I was surprised a British person with an accent would have trouble understanding him when they have such thick accents in their own country like Welsh or the Scottish Highlands.

    • @skrrtle360
      @skrrtle360 Před 3 lety +1

      @@dustin628 naa english people can understand him fine. we love doing a hick accent to mock you fools out there.

    • @dustin628
      @dustin628 Před 3 lety

      @@skrrtle360 lol ok as you watch all these American youtubers 🤣

  • @shoazdon7000
    @shoazdon7000 Před 2 lety

    This is the enclaves oil rig

  • @MW-jj7ck
    @MW-jj7ck Před 3 lety +1

    "Oh wow!" "Oh my God" shit like that will get you cleaning the shitter at a job like that

  • @shatinaapostol4698
    @shatinaapostol4698 Před 2 lety

    Is it true that your personal documents are held by security officer and is it true forbidden to use a video call or camera????

  • @tweshammehrish8824
    @tweshammehrish8824 Před 3 lety +5

    Definitely not the first time hammond has been in a heli lol

    • @moogle68
      @moogle68 Před 11 měsíci

      He literally has a helicopter license and owns his own helicopter, not sure if he has more than one or not, though.

  • @Mr_oiler68
    @Mr_oiler68 Před 5 měsíci

    My job

  • @stanleygohwc2712
    @stanleygohwc2712 Před 2 lety

    i womder what is the brand of that choke valve

  • @adaptorperish1322
    @adaptorperish1322 Před 3 lety +9

    English isn’t my first or even second language, and I’m far from being its fluent speaker, yet I could understand the man just fine.
    What is it with native English speakers not being able to understand their own language in different accents?

    • @derk486
      @derk486 Před 2 lety +1

      Okay

    • @Bendigo1
      @Bendigo1 Před 2 lety

      When one is used to hearing words pronounced one way, the brain can have issues hearing the same word said differently from what it is used to.

  • @12toshow82
    @12toshow82 Před 2 lety

    Created by engineers built by the trade workers

  • @ay22296
    @ay22296 Před 9 měsíci

    These are too short. Need an hour long doc

  • @lindaking4780
    @lindaking4780 Před 2 lety

    Do the workers have to pay for the helicopters flight back to shore.

  • @robinheibeb5247
    @robinheibeb5247 Před rokem

    Please employ me here . I want to experience offshore oil rigs jobs. Any suggestions how I apply. Any assistance. Thank yoo ...

  • @willfo8358
    @willfo8358 Před 3 lety +7

    Why is the price of our gasoline ⛽️ going up?🇺🇸
    Thanks for the video.😎🇺🇸

  • @putradanish1161
    @putradanish1161 Před 3 lety

    Why Jeff Ross working offshore

  • @rafiullah2202
    @rafiullah2202 Před 3 lety +3

    There is no bypass line for fixed choke? One adjustable choke valve malfunction is causing a complete shutdown?? No way!

  • @erkenly
    @erkenly Před 2 lety

    Materials to make a oil platform
    1. A big table
    2. Some iron bars/pumps
    3. Cranes
    And vuala 🤣🤣🤣

  • @bigpapagaming8322
    @bigpapagaming8322 Před 2 lety +1

    It is just so Unimaginable and scared at the same time
    When you know after the scientific revolution 200 years ago, now we came this fare. In just 200 years
    Thais making me wonder what will happen after 1000 years

  • @kwaitoman10
    @kwaitoman10 Před 3 lety +1

    I wonder how much do these people earn ?!

  • @johnyoung2702
    @johnyoung2702 Před 3 lety

    A lot of people are making a lot of money

  • @psimarpaung-ng4sc
    @psimarpaung-ng4sc Před rokem

    Be carefull Oil, Lubricant ex car race, Neptunus maybe, to produce for cemmetary, England. World Locco Antropologi Ness.

  • @Lykapodium
    @Lykapodium Před 2 lety +7

    I'm pretty sure they wouldn't let Hammond have a go at a repair for a part that's costing $400k/hr and film it. It would be all hands on deck if that was the case

    • @haydndance4408
      @haydndance4408 Před 2 lety

      Doesn't cost them fuck all they are taking from the planet turning it in to profit we actually loose out as price fluctuates due to these kind of things the company only looses profits . Costing 0 the don't pay the planet for oil or minerals or oars they take nothing is there's in reality nothing is ours we will all turn back to dust of wich we came n the proces start again the world is doomed by greed

    • @abelincoln4374
      @abelincoln4374 Před rokem +1

      400k an hour is chump change for a company like Shell. It's all relative.

  • @nodatesape9124
    @nodatesape9124 Před rokem

    Costing us 400k per hour... oh Richards here? Yeah he can help, why not? It's only a couple extra hours for filming. Think of the PR!
    Shell, probably.

  • @Urmel331
    @Urmel331 Před 3 lety

    we treee at ar own sewageee

  • @user-cu5gc4qz8p
    @user-cu5gc4qz8p Před 3 lety +2

    we have put an impressive amount of effort to setting our atmosphere on fire :)

  • @peter-radiantpipes2800
    @peter-radiantpipes2800 Před 3 lety +1

    Wow. Low views for such a vid

  • @FinsaneLorist
    @FinsaneLorist Před 2 lety

    IT STOPPED just when it started to get interesting

  • @rahimk687
    @rahimk687 Před 3 lety +4

    So Shell are losing £400k an hour for the damaged valve but they are willing to do a nice and slow demonstration for Mr Richard Hammond and his TV show on how to repair the valve. RIGHTTTT

    • @decc0484
      @decc0484 Před 3 lety +2

      shell made 180billion in revenue last year, i doubt spending an extra 10 minutes showing richard the parts they use hit them that hard

    • @096192083
      @096192083 Před 3 lety +1

      He kinda made it sound very dramatic but this platform doesn't have just 1 wellhead connected. It could have 12, 24, even more potentially.. each with their own choke valve. The $400,000 an hour is simple maths; $60 a barrel, 160,000 barrels a day, divided by 24. So it's $400,000 if all the wellheads went down.

    • @user-kw2wd9dq7x
      @user-kw2wd9dq7x Před 3 lety

      I have another question - why the hell is that valve so clean inside? Isn't it supposed to choke oil flow?

  • @levonschaftin3676
    @levonschaftin3676 Před 2 lety

    I find it really strange these guys don't have to be clean shaven.

    • @alhassanetoure3088
      @alhassanetoure3088 Před 2 lety

      Why would they be clean shaven?

    • @levonschaftin3676
      @levonschaftin3676 Před 2 lety

      @@alhassanetoure3088 they're on an oil platform, one that presumably produces hydrocarbons. I've worked in land facilities that do the same thing and every single one required its workers to be clean shaven so they can produce a seal with a face mask in the event of emergency.

    • @neverhungryagain2187
      @neverhungryagain2187 Před 2 lety

      @@levonschaftin3676 they don’t have big beards, face mask will fit right over

  • @BuYung-gg7kb
    @BuYung-gg7kb Před rokem

    Jend. Sam Ardi Bolkiah abdurrahman. Guam country... What pay for plane

  • @GREGHOLUB
    @GREGHOLUB Před rokem

    Only making 9.6 million a day no big deal

  • @capt.ir.h.kosasihceo9742

    IM ever ex Crew Offhore Aramco and Petronas oil last kontrack position rank manager project oil Asia Pasifik

  • @berndderbratan
    @berndderbratan Před 3 lety +7

    This guy's accent makes you forget there is a very evil corporation behind this

  • @JJLock
    @JJLock Před 3 lety +8

    I was in construction and oilfield for 30 years, it was a great industry to work in. Good to see Hammond discovering how real men earn their coin.

    • @schwallingsworth0138
      @schwallingsworth0138 Před 3 lety +3

      "Real men" ??? ....not my opinion of what a "real man" is but luckily we are each entitled to our own!!

  • @jackwhitehead1383
    @jackwhitehead1383 Před 3 lety

    The oval call oppositely crack because sense mostly fool than a supreme pink. different, likeable crib

  • @jaelynnshayla6082
    @jaelynnshayla6082 Před 3 lety

    The bumpy relation phylogenetically clean because tin likely communicate athwart a well-made scorpio. sable, impolite fork

  • @bigfarts36
    @bigfarts36 Před 3 lety

    I have an electric car, that rig is dumb

    • @Bendigo1
      @Bendigo1 Před 2 lety

      Where does the electricity come from that you charge that car with?

  • @CreativeWorkflowHack
    @CreativeWorkflowHack Před 3 lety

    I dont see any divrsity board or women o.O I knew the oil industry is bigoted

    • @Bendigo1
      @Bendigo1 Před 2 lety

      Maybe women don't want to work there???

    • @CreativeWorkflowHack
      @CreativeWorkflowHack Před 2 lety

      @@Bendigo1 wow, rich from you to speak for all women here. maybe they don't get to work their because they are discriminated against.
      joking btw

  • @lunchbox1341
    @lunchbox1341 Před 3 lety

    It honestly annoys me that this was built in 2019

    • @elrey1897
      @elrey1897 Před rokem

      This was built around 2016. It took us maybe 2.5- 3 years to build it. these rigs are engineered and planned for years prior to us receiving the first drawings and starting the build for these platforms. They're a real pain in the ass to build too. It's super cool to see when all the pieces start coming together to build each of the modules though. It's like a very, VERY big puzzle

  • @kaprun100
    @kaprun100 Před rokem

    Damn that guy first should have learnt how to SPEAK properly.

  • @schwallingsworth0138
    @schwallingsworth0138 Před 3 lety +2

    That's a friggin MONSTROSITY!! SO UGLY, SO DISGUSTING WHAT WE DO TO OUR MOTHER GAIA😫

    • @HollerMeshocks
      @HollerMeshocks Před 3 lety

      Speak for yourself when you say “we”. I’ll never own a carbon monoxide polluting machine.

    • @baconatoromg6062
      @baconatoromg6062 Před 3 lety +18

      @@HollerMeshocks hope you don't have any electric items like the phone or computer you used to type this

    • @kumarpugazhenthi8742
      @kumarpugazhenthi8742 Před 3 lety

      Strike a balance, mate.

    • @themodmaster6593
      @themodmaster6593 Před 3 lety

      Try and stop them ig

    • @Alex-iy6ub
      @Alex-iy6ub Před 3 lety +1

      @@HollerMeshocks well any car which is newer than 1980, does not pollute carbon monoxide, as the cataylst converts it to carbon dioxide. Whereas carbon monoxide is toxic, if I remember correctly it binds to the oxygen receptors in the red blood cells, carbon dioxide is non toxic, but does contribute to the green house effect

  • @sinisa3772
    @sinisa3772 Před rokem

    Vauuuuuvauvau hahaha