Top 5 Deadliest Oilrigs Disaster

5. GLOMAR JAVA SEA DRILLSHIP

Rig: Glomar Java Sea Drillship

Date: October 1983

Operator: Arco

Location: South China Sea

Fatalities: 81

The U.S. drillship GLOMAR JAVA SEA, with 81 persons onboard, capsized and sank in the South China Sea at a position approximately 63 nautical miles southwest of Hainan Island, People's Republic of China and 80 nautical miles east of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Prior to the sinking, the GLOMAR JAVA SEA had secured drilling operations due to the severe effects of tropical storm 'LEX' approaching from the east of the drilling site.

At 2348 local time, the Assistant Rig Manager, onboard the drillship, called Global Marine's office in Houston, Texas and reported that the drillship had a 15 deg starboard list of unknown origin and was experiencing 75 knot winds over the bow. Communications were cut off during the conversation, and all attempts to re-establish contact failed. At about 2351 the GLOMAR JAVA SEA capsized and within minutes sank in 317 feet of water. An extensive search was conducted but no survivors were found. A diving expedition found the wreck in an inverted position approximately 1600 feet southwest of the well site. The wreck was searched and 31 of the 36 bodies found were recovered. The remaining 45 persons are missing and presumed dead.

4. OCEAN RANGER

Rig: Ocean Ranger

Date: February 1982

Operator: Mobil Oil Canada Ltd.

Location: Hibernia Field, North Atlantic

Fatalities: 84

Ocean Ranger was designed by Ocean Drilling and Exploration Company, Inc. (ODECO) and constructed in 1976 by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries's Yard in Hiroshima, Japan. The vessel was a self-propelled large semi-submersible design with a drilling facility and living quarters. She was one of the largest semi-submersibles working offshore in the early 1980s.

Oil & Gas Job Vacancies: Fresh Graduates

Fellas, if you are fresh graduates or have experience less than 2 years, you should grab this oppurtunity and try out your luck with Keppel FMO at Singapore. You can pass your email here. For Mechanical, Electrical and Civil backgrounds.

About Keppel FMO is one of the subsidiary of Keppel Corporation. They also have a subsidiary that plays important role in regional and also word oil and gas bussiness known as Keppel Offshore & Marine. What Keppel FMO involve in was more into facilities management. Anyway, you can view their website here. For a crystal understanding of their corporate structure, please find the image below.

Oil & Gas Job Vacancies: Various Positions (Ramunia Fabricators)

                                                

Guys, the last time I heard that Ramunia Fabricators soon gonna open their new fabrication yard in Sandakan. That's true and now they are recruiting. Definitely, a good news for Sabahan.

Contract Engineer
3 yrs exp, 1 vacancyBangsar, Kuala Lumpur



Planning & Cost Control Manager
5 yrs exp, 1 vacancyBangsar, Kuala Lumpur


Contract Admin Manager
8 yrs exp, 1 vacancyKuala Lumpur


Quality Assurance Section Lead
8 yrs exp, 1 vacancyKuala Lumpur


Hse Engineer
5 yrs exp, 1 vacancyKuala Lumpur


Planning Manager
8 yrs exp, 1 vacancyBangsar, Kuala Lumpur



Operator (PDMS & BOCAD)
3 yrs exp, 1 vacancy& Sandakan, Kuala Lumpur


Drafter
2 yrs exp, 5 vacancies& Sandakan, Kuala Lumpur



Designers ( Piping / Mechanical / Structural / Electrical / Instrument / PDMS )
3 yrs exp, 1 vacancy& Sandakan, Kuala Lumpur



Head (Accounting, Taxation & Corporate Fund Management)
15 yrs exp, 1 vacancyKuala Lumpur



Engineer (Piping / Mechanical / Structural / Electrical / Instrument / PDMS)
3 yrs exp, 2 vacancies& Sandakan, Kuala Lumpur



Project Account Executive
2 yrs exp, 1 vacancySeguntor, Sandakan, Sabah


Corporate Risk Manager
10 yrs exp, 1 vacancyKuala Lumpur

Human Resource And Admin Assistant
Seguntor, Sandakan, Sabah



IT Assistant
3 yrs exp, 1 vacancySeguntor, Sandakan, Sabah


Corporate Finance Manager
5 yrs exp, 1 vacancyKuala Lumpur

Part II: Types of Offshore Platforms

Ladies, here we meet again for Part II. Ok last time I already explained about the introduction of the offshore structures and now we move to the main contents, types of offshore structures. Either fixed or float, as simple as that. Ah, layman terms. Fixed platforms is a platforms that its substructure attached / piled to the seabed while floats platforms does not. However, floating systems normally moored i.e chained or anchored.

Fixed Platforms

Steel Jacket Platform

Semangkok-A Platform

In Malaysia, especially in Peninsular Malaysia (PM) blocks, water depth is range to 50-70 metres (shallow waters). Hence, it is economically feasible to built a steel jacketed platforms. But the application of the jacket platform usually up to 300 metres. Topside of jacket platform are normally built either integrated (alltogether) or modular type (section per section e.g Living Quarters + Power Generation + Booster Compression + bla bla bla). For middle school level of understanding, JACKET PLATFORM = TOPSIDE + JACKET.

Compliant Tower

Compliant Tower Design

Petronius - Compliant Tower Platform

Obviously, the compliant tower platform are designed for water depth more than jacket platform which are normally up to 600 metres. The difference with jacket is that it has more narrowed frame support structure by a piled foundation. Compliant towers are designed to sustain significant lateral deflections and forces. Kids, read this out loud. COMPLIANT TOWER = TOPSIDE + FLEXIBLE TOWER.

Concrete Gravity Structure

Hibernia Platform

Practically, this type of structures are being used in the harsh environments such as North Sea and Scandinavian. Also known as Gravity Base Structure (GBS) platform, it is design to withstand the loads (environment + iceberg) and also for the storage of its base support. Normally GBS is applicable for water depths up to 300 metres. When completed, a GBS is towed to its intended location and sunk. Again kiddos, GBS = TOPSIDE + CONCRETE BASE.

Part I: Types of Offshore Platforms

Hola dudes, feelin' good? Yeah, buckle up ladies cause today I will babbling about types of offshore platforms available in the upstream sector. Ahh before that, should I become a lecturer? First of all, I would like to differentiate between oil rigs and platforms as this will help for a better understanding.

Oil rig is a mobile offshore unit that floats and may placed for temporary works or jobs. It can be categorised as MODU (Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit) or MOPU (Mobile Offshore Production Unit). MODU is basically used for drilling works before the production and processing parts comes in. It can be known as semisubmersible drilling rig, barge rig, drillship etc. For MOPU, it serves on the marginal field, which is not economically viable to put an offshore platforms. Hence, these rigs practically contracted on leasing basis.

MOPU - SBM

Semisubmersible Drilling Rig - Transocean's Nautilus

Malaysia's Oil & Gas Maps

Bros and Hos, you can get the image in .pdf to view it more clearly. Here is the file.

Announcement: Major Languange

Guys, due to some issues that I encountered today, and from now on, the major language for this blog will be change to English as per requirement. However, this could improve myself to write proper English sentences, reduce grammatical errors et cetera. Since the materials of this blog are mostly covered in English, this will make a lot easier for me to post. The end.

Malaysia Oil & Gas Engineering

Seblum seblum ni kalau aku surfing webpages pasal oil n gas kat Malaysia ni boleh dijadikan hiburan utk mengisi masa lapang bilamana posts or comments regarding careers in this industry. Contohnya, mcm razmahwata and forum lowyat. Yang torrbaikkk dijadikan contoh adalah seperti razmahwata. Most of it were guys who want to involve in the industry. Sekali kene komen pedas wata n jabba, haaa wakakakka la jwbnyaa....I believe some of the people knew a little bit about the industry and some who doesn't know anything at all. Just rushed in the net and pops out their immaturity. Tapi ape yg ak nmpak kebnyakkanyer adelah students2 yg sket lagi jer nk grad..Maybe die xtau nk maximize google nyer capability utk retrieve information. Hmm..back to the topic, for those who want to jump into the engineering environment, you could always refer to these council or associations yg ala2 persatuan mcm kat skolah dulu..

Video: Spar Fabrication from Technip

Just found this video, guess it's dated in 2009. There's a lot more of Technip's Spar vids you can find @ Youtube..Anyway, it's quite interesting..Ohhh, there is one documentary regarding spar also, hmm ahh yeahh Perdido Spar from Discovery Channel and Disney Channel.

Career With Aker Solutions

Good news for those who just thinking to kick start your career with this kick-ass engineering and construction company, Aker Solutions. They are now recruiting for a talent programme which based on international assigments throughout 2 years period of time. It is a damn good opportunity though, considering you will be based on Oslo, Houston and lastly Kuala Lumpur. Port Klang maybe? Also heard vacancies from P. Klang looking for some positions on project team. Mano2 yang tongah cari koje tu, haa apolaei..moh kte terjah...

Bismillahirahmanirrahim....

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