Inspired by ExpatOilWorkers post in another thread (discussing the opening of this sub Forum)...

Which Little Paradise do you work on / or have worked on ?

I'm currently on this delightful piece of metal...

Edited March 10, 201313 yr by richard_smith237

Which is what,you fail to name the beast.

Last job I was on the Noble Globetrotter 2,and before that the Noble Clyde Boudreaux.

Next up the Ensco 101

Would be interesting to us landlubbers if you mention the locations also.

Ocean Monarch - Semi Sub... Exploration in Indonesia (currently Arafura sea - West Papua).

Ocean Monarch - Semi Sub... Exploration in Indonesia (currently Arafura sea - West Papua).

Sounds exotic, the location. You mentioned semi sub. Are there fully submersible oil rigs/platforms also? If that is what it is called.

Offshore Rigs GOT, Cambodia, Vietnam. Land Rigs Bangladesh and Thailand. Now office based in Saudi.....rotating, could not live there.

Ocean Monarch - Semi Sub... Exploration in Indonesia (currently Arafura sea - West Papua).

Sounds exotic, the location. You mentioned semi sub. Are there fully submersible oil rigs/platforms also? If that is what it is called.

Nothing exotic about being in the middle of the sea for a month !!!

In answer to your question: The water is 4600 ft deep... The Rig floats, but not quite like a boat - It floats on huge pods which are ballasted under the waterline...

Semi subs - these platform are ballasted down in working configuration to minimise wave action. In transit the rig pontoons are fully exposed. Hence the term semi submersible. Never heard of a fully submersible rig but there are fully submersible production units controlled from a nearby production platform.

Off Shore Rigs:

Ocean Monarch

Ocean Rover

Ocean Epoch

Ocean General

Atwood Falcon

Atwood Southern Cross

GSF Explorer

GSF Labrador

Trident 15

Trident 16

Ensco 57

Ensco 53

Smedivig T-7

Smedvig T-4

Smedvig T-2

Smedvig - West Palaut

Mermaid Drilling MTR-1

SeaDrill-6

Deep Driller-5

Land Rigs:

Bangladesh, Thailand, Laos, India.

Locations:

North Sea UK and Holland

Thailand - GOT & Onshore

Philippines – Offshore

Malaysia – Offshore Peninsular / Sarawak / Sabah

Bangladesh - Offshore & Onshore

Myanmar - Offshore

Oman - Offshore

India - Onshore

Kazakhstan - Onshore

Indonesia: Aceh, Makassar Straights, Arafura Sea, Java Sea

Japan - Offshore, Sea of Japan

I was just dragging barges down from Batam in Indonesia to Australia with Swires.

I mainly work freelance on Rig Tenders but also container ships, tankers and bulk carriers

Normally work on one of the Aramco owned or operated surveying/ROV vessels in the Persian gulf, but currently seconded to a contractor survey vessel as company man in the Red Sea, just offshore of Duba port. Trying to get a pic up, but it keeps failing....

Currently in the Bass Strait onboard the Normand Clough doing subsea construction

Offshore Vietnam, pipelay barge (DP), finally have good weather!!!!

BP Magnus, Stena Spey, Homer Ferrignton, Adriatic 8, Stena Forth and Stena Ice Max.

Currently off the coast of French Guiana.

Too many land rigs to mention.

Dodging icebergs in Greenland to Arab spring in the deserts of the Middle East.

Edited March 11, 201313 yr by Sakeopete

I was one of the computer / accounting guys who sat in the office of the Exploration & Production units working on the contracts for those kind of remote outposts you mentioned.

What can I say........ Rub' Al Khali desert in the Spring, Summer, Winter and the Fall. We did get some rain last year, the first time in 10 years, didn't affect the plantlife very much or so they tell me.......I didn't notice the difference.

Currently offshore Caspian Sea (Azerbaijan), on one of the biggest rig/cities in the world...Oily Rocks...has about 200km of road..5 years here now and ok, working for International Gas Turbine company

Current - Thailand

Prior - Africa, US, China, Europe, Vietnam

Edited March 11, 201313 yr by Soutpeel

Worked on FPSO's, North sea Platforms, DSV's, pipelay barges and Construction Vessels, Past 6 or so years been working in Angola, Congo and Ivory Coast in onshore and offshore construction with the last 3 years offshore Nigeria, mainly on construction vessel and now pipelay barge for the past year, been on a 5 week rotation but not often works out quite like that

bugger it, just heard I'm being dragged away early in 3 days time,,, and I'm still stuck in Laos sorting my thai visa,

Got the upload working - feast your eyes on the good ship Ocean Opal, being operated by Horizon surveys over here in the Red Sea.

Sent from my iPad-mini.

Ocean Monarch - Semi Sub... Exploration in Indonesia (currently Arafura sea - West Papua).

If you're working for Niko Energy I'm on the smaller seismic boat that is working near you.

Edited March 13, 201313 yr by KarenBravo

Past 11 years mostly GOT (Chevron & Mubadala (was Pearl). Also, other projects in Australia, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Azerbaijan & Qatar.

Off to Platong Field again on Saturday.

Seadrill RT-7, contracted to Chevron in the GOT, and only 25 days to go till I'm off hitch (not that I'm counting) LOL

My slice of Paradise...

I'm sparky on a semi in Angola. All nice here, pay is very good.

South Aftica - East cost

Namibia

Angola

Congo

Libya

Tunisia

Presently Brazil

Wish Ensco would move a a semi sub closer to home(Thailand) the traveling is getting a bit much

brazils a hike from thailand,depending which way they flew me, it was about 23hours in the air,,lol, was there with subsea7,petrology first,

angola,

offshore higeria

offshore uk,

pipelay barge acergy falcon, used to be seaway falcon, very nice little barge,

dubai,

norway

spain,

many more we are all the same globe trotters,

but now in in sunny scotland, working on a mucky old boiler at longannet,3rd year here now, same money as brazil and angola, the benifit i get to see my 2 grown up kids more in the uk, so works out well for me,

good luck to all and be SAFE,

JAKE

Byford Dolphin

North Sea off Shetland.

Once scene of a terrible diving accident.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin

That is all in the past and was long before my time.

Off on Thursday back home to Phetchabun on Saturday get in.

Suffering a 28 / 28 rotation between here in the Bangkok office and home in Chiang Mai.