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Jackup
I took this photo in Invergordon which is Northeast of Scotland, its a place old rigs go to die, some are lucky and get a bit of TLC and work again, other's just seem to stay here forever. I tweaked...
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Flare
I shot this as we moved a very large Jackup along side a platform, this is the flare burning off waste gas. Again this was tweaked with Snapseed on my iPad.
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On Tow
Keeping up my transportation theme, here’s a shot of an AHV (Anchor Handing Vessel) towing a rig into Invergordon. Invergordon is where rig’s go to die. A lot of the rig’s in the North Sea are very...
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iPhone Friday
For the last couple of days I’ve been having to sit outside on the stairs and connect to the wifi from the rig parked next to us, it was very slow and would not let me view some sites, so sorry if I...
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Thrusters
****WARNING ENGINEERING GEEKY STUFF**** This is the jackup that was berthed next to us in Amsterdam, it’s a Jackup barge, properly built for wind farm installation, like the one I’m on, this is a DP2...
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Christmas Offshore
This has been the first Christmas I’ve spent at home in 5 years and it has been fantastic. December is a busy month for us, last year while I was away I missed,(In order) My son’s birthday, our...
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Amsterdam HDR
I’m back on dry land after 14 days at sea, it was a good rig move, all went well and nobody got hurt. This shot is from a rig move I was part of, starting in Amsterdam, we had a couple of days before...
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Dundee
Digging through some old photos I found a rig move we did out of Dundee, I haven’t spent any time in Dundee so don’t know much about the place except what I just read on Wiki and it does sound like a...
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Invergordon
I’m back at work tomorrow, flying up to Inverness and then hire car to Invergordon, I’ve never stayed in the town of Invergordon before, always on a rig, so I might have time to explore a bit, If I do...
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Good News and Bad News
First the good news, I’ve had another photo published in a magazine called Interactions, it’s a photo of Archie (my dog) with xmas socks on, which I had placed on my blog. Now the bad news, I have...
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Amsterdam
Another industrial night scene for you, (well dusk anyway) this one is in Amsterdam, the vessel at the bottom of photo is the Sirius, a Greenpeace ship, just chilling out until they go and do their...
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Birds on the Beach
Just got back from another successful rig move, this one was a Jack-up out from Norwich, it first tried to move early January but could not due to the weather, after another two attempts failed due to...
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Heavy Lifts
Last month, while on another successful rig move we had the pleasure of watching some very heavy lifts going on, now when I say pleasure, I mean in the geeky sort of way, watching a crane lift...
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