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  • Опубліковано 10 бер 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 3 роки тому +115

    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 3 роки тому +44

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

  • @SmittyAccess
    @SmittyAccess 2 роки тому +24

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

    • @lindaking4780
      @lindaking4780 2 роки тому +2

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

    • @SmittyAccess
      @SmittyAccess 2 роки тому +6

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

    • @lindaking4780
      @lindaking4780 2 роки тому +3

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

    • @SmittyAccess
      @SmittyAccess 2 роки тому +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 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @neil5006
    @neil5006 Рік тому +7

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

  • @Cat-Washing-ton
    @Cat-Washing-ton 2 роки тому +60

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

  • @dannyauthement1604
    @dannyauthement1604 3 роки тому +49

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

  • @Bavarian_M
    @Bavarian_M 2 роки тому +14

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

  • @FlakAlley
    @FlakAlley 3 роки тому +111

    A floating city!

    • @Lev15157
      @Lev15157 3 роки тому +1

      Atlantis

    • @Crayon255
      @Crayon255 2 роки тому +1

      @@Lev15157 are you saying it’s going to sink

    • @barrets6226
      @barrets6226 2 роки тому

      @@Crayon255 BP has a platform called Atlantis.

    • @veganista5096
      @veganista5096 2 роки тому

      Amazing

  • @Ascertivus
    @Ascertivus 3 роки тому +4

    That's an amazing piece of construction!

  • @kresimirmilisa5560
    @kresimirmilisa5560 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @AudieHolland
    @AudieHolland Рік тому +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 9 місяців тому

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

  • @cn8585
    @cn8585 3 роки тому +4

    Very interesting, thank you Richard :)

  • @UnProj
    @UnProj 10 місяців тому +2

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

    • @musicmanfelipe
      @musicmanfelipe 9 місяців тому +2

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

  • @SaeedKhan-op3by
    @SaeedKhan-op3by 2 роки тому +2

    I was thankful for the subtitles lol

  • @screamulous
    @screamulous 3 роки тому +1

    I love this guy

  • @brodyschreiber-ko3mn
    @brodyschreiber-ko3mn Рік тому

    Great rig

  • @devo1977s
    @devo1977s 2 роки тому +41

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

    • @jaysharma9987
      @jaysharma9987 2 роки тому +3

      it definitely will.

    • @treyfisse3230
      @treyfisse3230 2 роки тому +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

  • @widowmakergarage
    @widowmakergarage 8 місяців тому

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

  • @princemkandawiref6963
    @princemkandawiref6963 Рік тому +2

    That's why l love Engineering 🔥🔥🔥

  • @luckycharms3859
    @luckycharms3859 3 роки тому +152

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

    • @vanquishable7844
      @vanquishable7844 3 роки тому +8

      It was actually seven pertilians per hour on the cargo ship

    • @fFiuW
      @fFiuW 3 роки тому +1

      Not true.

    • @luckycharms3859
      @luckycharms3859 3 роки тому +1

      @@fFiuW REaAllLLY?

  • @2061526
    @2061526 3 роки тому +7

    you must have way complex fire extinguishers there

  • @chloehennessey6813
    @chloehennessey6813 Рік тому +1

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

  • @Samurai_2029
    @Samurai_2029 3 роки тому +6

    Like a City in the ocean

  • @insane_in_da_membrane_
    @insane_in_da_membrane_ 3 роки тому +56

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

    • @apexinstinct
      @apexinstinct 3 роки тому +4

      It's only a clip of the a TV episode

    • @insane_in_da_membrane_
      @insane_in_da_membrane_ 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому

      @@insane_in_da_membrane_ No problem mate 😂👍🏻

    • @randomguy8476
      @randomguy8476 3 роки тому

      @@apexinstinct What's it called?

    • @apexinstinct
      @apexinstinct 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @charlessilverfox906
    @charlessilverfox906 3 роки тому +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 2 роки тому +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.

  • @notreallyasloth
    @notreallyasloth 3 роки тому +4

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

  • @dinolundy05_50
    @dinolundy05_50 3 роки тому +1

    I do live in Louisiana so thats cool

  • @sophieknobloch2806
    @sophieknobloch2806 Рік тому +1

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

  • @einen9325
    @einen9325 2 роки тому +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 2 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +2

    Anyone know how long crates got left?

  • @benediktwugk3063
    @benediktwugk3063 3 роки тому +8

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

    • @karebear4485
      @karebear4485 2 роки тому

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

  • @DavidBcc
    @DavidBcc 3 роки тому +13

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

    • @dathanchevli7514
      @dathanchevli7514 3 роки тому

      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 2 роки тому

      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

  • @privatesector0422
    @privatesector0422 2 роки тому +2

    Kind of feels like Waterworld.

  • @amirulzailan9388
    @amirulzailan9388 3 роки тому

    Wow

  • @lloyd6809
    @lloyd6809 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @maemae7063
    @maemae7063 3 роки тому

    Own by which company? Shell

  • @illumi747
    @illumi747 2 роки тому +1

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

    • @braidena1633
      @braidena1633 Рік тому

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

  • @Camdem101
    @Camdem101 3 роки тому +1

    Wait is this Nick Beans oil rig?

  • @stanleygohwc2712
    @stanleygohwc2712 2 роки тому

    i womder what is the brand of that choke valve

  • @shatinaapostol4698
    @shatinaapostol4698 2 роки тому

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

  • @dustin628
    @dustin628 3 роки тому +13

    Who really needed the subtitles though?

    • @MrMaple-iq1sh
      @MrMaple-iq1sh 3 роки тому +12

      Me, who isn't a native English speaker.

    • @dustin628
      @dustin628 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +1

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

    • @dustin628
      @dustin628 3 роки тому

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

  • @shoazdon7000
    @shoazdon7000 2 роки тому

    This is the enclaves oil rig

  • @robinheibeb5247
    @robinheibeb5247 Рік тому

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

  • @ay22296
    @ay22296 8 місяців тому

    These are too short. Need an hour long doc

  • @tweshammehrish8824
    @tweshammehrish8824 3 роки тому +5

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

    • @moogle68
      @moogle68 10 місяців тому

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

  • @benmacauley4147
    @benmacauley4147 3 роки тому

    big

  • @Mr_oiler68
    @Mr_oiler68 4 місяці тому

    My job

  • @lindaking4780
    @lindaking4780 2 роки тому

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

  • @12toshow82
    @12toshow82 2 роки тому

    Created by engineers built by the trade workers

  • @willfo8358
    @willfo8358 3 роки тому +7

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

  • @rafiullah2202
    @rafiullah2202 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @putradanish1161
    @putradanish1161 3 роки тому

    Why Jeff Ross working offshore

  • @erkenly
    @erkenly 2 роки тому

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

  • @bigpapagaming8322
    @bigpapagaming8322 2 роки тому +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

  • @adaptorperish1322
    @adaptorperish1322 3 роки тому +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 2 роки тому +1

      Okay

    • @Bendigo1
      @Bendigo1 2 роки тому

      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.

  • @Lykapodium
    @Lykapodium 2 роки тому +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 2 роки тому

      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 10 місяців тому +1

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

  • @nodatesape9124
    @nodatesape9124 Рік тому

    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.

  • @user-cu5gc4qz8p
    @user-cu5gc4qz8p 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @kwaitoman10
    @kwaitoman10 3 роки тому +1

    I wonder how much do these people earn ?!

  • @psimarpaung-ng4sc
    @psimarpaung-ng4sc Рік тому

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

  • @johnyoung2702
    @johnyoung2702 3 роки тому

    A lot of people are making a lot of money

  • @MW-jj7ck
    @MW-jj7ck 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @rahimk687
    @rahimk687 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому

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

  • @Urmel331
    @Urmel331 3 роки тому

    we treee at ar own sewageee

  • @FinsaneLorist
    @FinsaneLorist 2 роки тому

    IT STOPPED just when it started to get interesting

  • @peter-radiantpipes2800
    @peter-radiantpipes2800 3 роки тому +1

    Wow. Low views for such a vid

  • @levonschaftin3676
    @levonschaftin3676 2 роки тому

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

    • @alhassanetoure3088
      @alhassanetoure3088 2 роки тому

      Why would they be clean shaven?

    • @levonschaftin3676
      @levonschaftin3676 2 роки тому

      @@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 2 роки тому

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

  • @BuYung-gg7kb
    @BuYung-gg7kb Рік тому

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

  • @capt.ir.h.kosasihceo9742
    @capt.ir.h.kosasihceo9742 3 роки тому

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

  • @jackwhitehead1383
    @jackwhitehead1383 3 роки тому

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

  • @jaelynnshayla6082
    @jaelynnshayla6082 3 роки тому

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

  • @berndderbratan
    @berndderbratan 3 роки тому +7

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

  • @GREGHOLUB
    @GREGHOLUB Рік тому

    Only making 9.6 million a day no big deal

  • @JJLock
    @JJLock 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @bigfarts36
    @bigfarts36 2 роки тому

    I have an electric car, that rig is dumb

    • @Bendigo1
      @Bendigo1 2 роки тому

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

  • @CreativeWorkflowHack
    @CreativeWorkflowHack 2 роки тому

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

    • @Bendigo1
      @Bendigo1 2 роки тому

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

    • @CreativeWorkflowHack
      @CreativeWorkflowHack 2 роки тому

      @@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 2 роки тому

    It honestly annoys me that this was built in 2019

    • @elrey1897
      @elrey1897 Рік тому

      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 Рік тому

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

  • @schwallingsworth0138
    @schwallingsworth0138 3 роки тому +2

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

    • @HollerMeshocks
      @HollerMeshocks 3 роки тому

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

    • @baconatoromg6062
      @baconatoromg6062 3 роки тому +18

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

    • @kumarpugazhenthi8742
      @kumarpugazhenthi8742 3 роки тому

      Strike a balance, mate.

    • @themodmaster6593
      @themodmaster6593 3 роки тому

      Try and stop them ig

    • @Alex-iy6ub
      @Alex-iy6ub 3 роки тому +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 Рік тому

    Vauuuuuvauvau hahaha