Ship hits platform
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This is the well stimulation vessel the Big Orange XVIII, it managed to crash into the Ecofisk platform a few days ago and did a fair bit of damage.
Before
After
Nobody was hurt but the water injection platform they hit had to be shut down.
I worked on this vessel for 4.5 years and we never managed to hit anything (other than HMS Belfast but that is another story)
It sits along side platforms using a taught wire dynamic positioning system and pumps down the oil wells via hoses connected between the rear of the vessel and the platform, I guess they had a loss of power or a failure of the DP system.
Before
After
Nobody was hurt but the water injection platform they hit had to be shut down.
I worked on this vessel for 4.5 years and we never managed to hit anything (other than HMS Belfast but that is another story)
It sits along side platforms using a taught wire dynamic positioning system and pumps down the oil wells via hoses connected between the rear of the vessel and the platform, I guess they had a loss of power or a failure of the DP system.
Hi Pooh
Passed the Ekofisk complex on our way out to the Nini field was amazed at the area it covers.
I take it it was working in close proximity when it had its "outage"
Whatever, they managed to keep it pretty quiet. Apart from a small item on the Noggie news, bugger all was reported anywhere else that I saw, even googled and came up with nowt.
Al
Here is the story.
STAVANGER, NORWAY: The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has launched an investigation following the collision of Wilhelmsen well stimulation vessel Big Orange XVIII with ConocoPhillips' 2/4-W installation on Ekofisk in the North Sea on June 8. The incident caused damage both to the structure, bridge and well equipment on 2/4-W and to the vessel.
Big Orange XVIII was heading towards the 2/4-X installation to carry out well stimulation work on its long-term contract with Schlumberger when it suffered an engine breakdown. It avoided collisions with 2/4-X and 2/4-C by using its bow thrusters. While passing under the bridge between the installations, however, it also lost thruster power and hit 2/4-W.
The incident, which occurred at 4:17 a.m. local time, has been followed up by the PSA with the launch of two activities. One involves monitoring the normalization work being carried out by the operator, while the other is its investigation of the actual incident.
The goal for the normalization team at the PSA is to check that ConocoPhillips takes the necessary steps to secure the installation before it returns to operation or is removed.
The investigation will seek to clarify the sequence of events, the direct and underlying causes, and the actual and potential consequences. Also covering emergency preparedness aspects and possible violations of the regulations.
http://www.energycurrent.com/index.php?id=2&st...
STAVANGER, NORWAY: The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has launched an investigation following the collision of Wilhelmsen well stimulation vessel Big Orange XVIII with ConocoPhillips' 2/4-W installation on Ekofisk in the North Sea on June 8. The incident caused damage both to the structure, bridge and well equipment on 2/4-W and to the vessel.
Big Orange XVIII was heading towards the 2/4-X installation to carry out well stimulation work on its long-term contract with Schlumberger when it suffered an engine breakdown. It avoided collisions with 2/4-X and 2/4-C by using its bow thrusters. While passing under the bridge between the installations, however, it also lost thruster power and hit 2/4-W.
The incident, which occurred at 4:17 a.m. local time, has been followed up by the PSA with the launch of two activities. One involves monitoring the normalization work being carried out by the operator, while the other is its investigation of the actual incident.
The goal for the normalization team at the PSA is to check that ConocoPhillips takes the necessary steps to secure the installation before it returns to operation or is removed.
The investigation will seek to clarify the sequence of events, the direct and underlying causes, and the actual and potential consequences. Also covering emergency preparedness aspects and possible violations of the regulations.
http://www.energycurrent.com/index.php?id=2&st...
dudleybloke said:
bit of t_cut and it will be as good as new. what tonnage is that kayak.
Some info about itType....Well Simulation Vessel.
Dob....1984....Builder...Ulstein Hatlo.
Loa.....76m.....Beam...18m....Draught....7m......Grt...3710.
Flag...Bahamas.......Port of Registry...Nassau.
Owner....DSND. Subsea......Aquired...01/1995.
Location....Montrose.
Pooh said:
JCB123 said:
Big Orange? Not if I'm not colour blind it isn't!
It used to be orange when it was owned by Dowell (the oil well division of Dow chemicals), when Schlumberger took over they changed it to blue, but did not change the name. Because zey are FrenchCome on Pooh, what was the story about "hitting HMS Belfast"????
Semi hemi said:
Pooh said:
JCB123 said:
Big Orange? Not if I'm not colour blind it isn't!
It used to be orange when it was owned by Dowell (the oil well division of Dow chemicals), when Schlumberger took over they changed it to blue, but did not change the name. Because zey are FrenchCome on Pooh, what was the story about "hitting HMS Belfast"????
One summer we sailed up the Thames, under tower bridge and tied up along side HMS Belfast to have an open day for oil industry clients. When we left the captain swung the stern into the side of HMS Belfast, bent in the handrail on the Big Orange and removed a sizable chunk of paintwork off the side of Belfast, we were delighted because it gave us plenty of ammunition to wind up our Norwegian captain.
scottiedog said:
Damage looks bad, wonder if she will be repaired?
She was, and fairly quickly I believe.I was aboard earlier this week doing repairs to the motor controls following a bad power surge. The manouverability of this ship has to be seen to be believed, the graceful way she left the quay on the way out to sea trials was very impressive. Nudge the back out with the azimuth thrusters and then a neat pirouette assisted by the bow thrusters - 3,700 tons of ship doing the equivalent of a handbrake turn!
Hi there spent nearly ten years on and around BO. 4, 7, 10, 14, & 15
remembered with great fondness, done total operational refits on the 4
& 7 whilst in Dubai/Sharjah. Which of the vessels was mined whilst in
the Gulf any one know. Apart from an operational stand point they were
bloody good fishing platforms..............Main interests for me were the
gas turbine frac units spent many days and nights around them babies.
Does any one out there still involved with these vessels would like to
hear from them, is there still a base in the UAE for any of these well
stimulation boats.
regards,
mike................
Hi - I was on this ship when she was new, joining her in Montrose as an Instrument Technician in November 1984, and being laid off due to the oil crisis in September 1986. She was a great ship, sailing under a Norwegian flag, with a Norwegian maritime crew and British Dowell-Schlumberger Operations crew.
There were two Maritime crews, and they would do back-to-back rotation. One team was captained by Per, the name of his counterpart evades me at present.
As I recall, we managed to operate without mishap, even when we did what we understood to be the very first totally automated acid matrix job in the world - I didn't tell my colleagues what I was planning, just told them what settings to use, and switch everything to 'auto' - didn't even tell the client what I was doing until it was all over, and they were amazed at the smoothness of the job! And that was for BP! Our Stimulation Engineer fizzed a bit, but couldn't say too much with the client present.
When I got laid off, I was halfway through rewriting the software for the stimulation pump gearbox controls. I knew that as it was as new from St Etienne, it didn't work, so I continued to work on it for another week, and left it fully functional.
I hope that she long continues to ply the North Sea, a remains a safe and happy place for her hard-working crew.
It was a great ship to work on, with great teams onboard - and it was ORANGE & WHITE!! La Grande Orange Dix-Huit.
There were two Maritime crews, and they would do back-to-back rotation. One team was captained by Per, the name of his counterpart evades me at present.
As I recall, we managed to operate without mishap, even when we did what we understood to be the very first totally automated acid matrix job in the world - I didn't tell my colleagues what I was planning, just told them what settings to use, and switch everything to 'auto' - didn't even tell the client what I was doing until it was all over, and they were amazed at the smoothness of the job! And that was for BP! Our Stimulation Engineer fizzed a bit, but couldn't say too much with the client present.
When I got laid off, I was halfway through rewriting the software for the stimulation pump gearbox controls. I knew that as it was as new from St Etienne, it didn't work, so I continued to work on it for another week, and left it fully functional.
I hope that she long continues to ply the North Sea, a remains a safe and happy place for her hard-working crew.
It was a great ship to work on, with great teams onboard - and it was ORANGE & WHITE!! La Grande Orange Dix-Huit.
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