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paralla said:
XJSJohn said:
paralla said:
One year I stayed 132 nights in the Shangri-La hotel on Orange Grove Road and had ALL the air miles and hotel loyalty points. The good old days in O&G.
18 consecutive freeflow / all you can eat Thursday Night dinners and 18 consecutive freeflow champagne Sunday brunches at "The Line", thats pretty hardcore!! 
XJSJohn said:
The Line is quite something isn't it .... got battered there many a time in the past, ohh happy days !!!
I had room service a lot, or just plenty of complimentary cocktails and canapes at the Horizon Club on the top floor. It saved having to get dressed for dinner and avoided the possibility of bumping into anyone from work downstairs at The Line (and talking about oil rigs).http://www.shangri-la.com/corporate/horizon-club/
Motor Gun Boat 81 under way at speed up Southampton Water...
...seen from the deck of the rather more sedately steaming SS Shieldhall as it overtook us.
The Dutch sailing brig 'Morgenster' passing the Regent Seven Seas cruise company's 'Seven Seas Splendor®'
We spent a nice afternoon at the (free entry) Heritage Open Day on board SS Shieldhall, then the ship was cleared and we embarked again for a two-hour cruise down toward Calshot and back. Passing the Morgenster was a nice bonus even if she wasn't under sail, but the absolute beast that was MGB 81 passed us twice. Once on the way down the Water, but I missed that photo opportunity as I was picking my jaw up off the floor. Managed to get one snap off on her way back up the Water and luckily managed to at least get her in the frame. Capable of 40 knots in her original form she now runs with three number 825 hp FPT C13-825 diesels. Tannoy announcement on board the Shieldhall said she was at about 30 knots when she passed us. MGB 81 and Morgenster were both out from the Southampton Boat Show whereas the SS Shieldhall cruise was running from her berth up between the old King George V Graving Dock and the relatively new DP World Container Port.
Edited by yellowjack on Tuesday 20th September 01:30
Heaviest crane lift ever undertaken at sea
Heerema Marine Contractors safely installed TotalEnergies’ biggest Tyra II topside on the last remaining bare jacket at the Tyra field. The lift of the 17,000 metric tons heavy process module broke a world record as the heaviest crane lift ever undertaken at sea.
Nothing was left to chance when the two crane drivers, with the support of more than 260 offshore workers onboard Sleipnir, lifted what corresponds to the weight of around two Eiffel Towers.
https://www.offshore-mag.com/rigs-vessels/article/...
Edited by DeltonaS on Thursday 13th October 12:43
paralla said:
Here’s one I made earlier.
12 year old VLCC M/V Bourgogne converted into PSVM FPSO at Jurong Shipyard Singapore by MODEC for BP at a cost of US$2bn. She’s turret moored in 2000m of water offshore Angola.
Missed this when posted - as a consultant, I designed the security architecture for BP's FPSO that was for Block 18 Angola - did it out of the KBR offices in Leatherhead.12 year old VLCC M/V Bourgogne converted into PSVM FPSO at Jurong Shipyard Singapore by MODEC for BP at a cost of US$2bn. She’s turret moored in 2000m of water offshore Angola.
It was a big step up for me as a security architect, pen tester and hacker into what has now become known as cyber security - a mix of IT security and where it hits physical infrastructure. Had to architect to secure the well-head to ship comms (16 well heads on the seafloor - that sound right?), then the docking systems for when a tanker pulled up to offload via a buoy (the nav systems had to synchronise), the onshore comms links to the Angola operations centre, then all the remote management of the units that sat on the FPSO deck, like remote telemetry and management via modem and satphone to Rolls Royce who ran the power units. I turned the whole thing on it's head, told them it was effectively like how I'd architect an online banking system and then designed appropriately, reducing the complexity and making it simpler to implement and manage. Brilliant threat model to work out as it was big machines and not just a bunch of servers in a data centre!
Happy days. I learned a lot working with proper engineers and sitting next to them in their offices.
nebpor said:
paralla said:
Here’s one I made earlier.
12 year old VLCC M/V Bourgogne converted into PSVM FPSO at Jurong Shipyard Singapore by MODEC for BP at a cost of US$2bn. She’s turret moored in 2000m of water offshore Angola.
Missed this when posted - as a consultant, I designed the security architecture for BP's FPSO that was for Block 18 Angola - did it out of the KBR offices in Leatherhead.12 year old VLCC M/V Bourgogne converted into PSVM FPSO at Jurong Shipyard Singapore by MODEC for BP at a cost of US$2bn. She’s turret moored in 2000m of water offshore Angola.
It was a big step up for me as a security architect, pen tester and hacker into what has now become known as cyber security - a mix of IT security and where it hits physical infrastructure. Had to architect to secure the well-head to ship comms (16 well heads on the seafloor - that sound right?), then the docking systems for when a tanker pulled up to offload via a buoy (the nav systems had to synchronise), the onshore comms links to the Angola operations centre, then all the remote management of the units that sat on the FPSO deck, like remote telemetry and management via modem and satphone to Rolls Royce who ran the power units. I turned the whole thing on it's head, told them it was effectively like how I'd architect an online banking system and then designed appropriately, reducing the complexity and making it simpler to implement and manage. Brilliant threat model to work out as it was big machines and not just a bunch of servers in a data centre!
Happy days. I learned a lot working with proper engineers and sitting next to them in their offices.
Maybe not particularly cool or amazing, but does anybody recognise this boat? It’s been in Marmaris marina for the past few days and slipped away tonight as soon as the sun disappeared at around 7.30pm. Just curious really as I couldn’t find anything about it online and couldn’t get any closer to get its name. A huge yacht and looked very impressive - dwarfed everything else moored up.
MarkJS said:
Maybe not particularly cool or amazing, but does anybody recognise this boat? It’s been in Marmaris marina for the past few days and slipped away tonight as soon as the sun disappeared at around 7.30pm. Just curious really as I couldn’t find anything about it online and couldn’t get any closer to get its name. A huge yacht and looked very impressive - dwarfed everything else moored up.
Ignore that. I have found out it’s called Anna and owned by a controversial oligarch. It didn’t actually leave the bay last night - seemed to anchor away from its original berth which is now mooring a cruise ship.
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