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Peckham Wry
I joined the Atlantic 2 in Aug 79, we were off the Thistle Platform, Eastern Shetland Basin, drilling extra holes to pump sea water into the resevoir, thus increasing the pressure and flow of the oil. Anchored nearby was ths the Wildrake, then the largest diving support vessel, which was trying to save the divers freezing to death on the seabed. It did not save them.Wildrake diving accident - Wikipedia - they were there to replace the poorly designed floating mooring point
Descending from the heli deck I passed 5 casuaties. On the other side of the Thistle our sister rig the Atlantic 1 was doing the same thing, drilling extra holes into the resevoir to pump sea water - that week their Derrick Man lost all the fingers on his right hand, and they had 2 serious crushing accidents. We were drilling the holes because of a design flaw in the platform, it was not going to able to last long enough to get all the recoverable oil from the resevoir - we were there to increase the flow so it could recover more of the oil. We also dropped explosives down the holes to Fracture the rock formation, releasing more oil - the root of the idea of Fracking, yep its been going on since the early days.
So, it was a nightmare from the start of its existance - it seems it may be heading for collapse soon
Workers evacuated from North Sea platform off Shetland
A North Sea oil platform has been shut down and workers taken off, following a subsea structural inspection.
Workers evacuated from North Sea platform
The nearby Norwegian run Stratfjord was in the same deep waters, had a single mooring point too, no dead, still standing no problems. We used to watch thier disco lights flashing in their windows over the storm lashed waves at Christmas
Descending from the heli deck I passed 5 casuaties. On the other side of the Thistle our sister rig the Atlantic 1 was doing the same thing, drilling extra holes into the resevoir to pump sea water - that week their Derrick Man lost all the fingers on his right hand, and they had 2 serious crushing accidents. We were drilling the holes because of a design flaw in the platform, it was not going to able to last long enough to get all the recoverable oil from the resevoir - we were there to increase the flow so it could recover more of the oil. We also dropped explosives down the holes to Fracture the rock formation, releasing more oil - the root of the idea of Fracking, yep its been going on since the early days.
So, it was a nightmare from the start of its existance - it seems it may be heading for collapse soon
Workers evacuated from North Sea platform off Shetland
A North Sea oil platform has been shut down and workers taken off, following a subsea structural inspection.
Workers evacuated from North Sea platform
The nearby Norwegian run Stratfjord was in the same deep waters, had a single mooring point too, no dead, still standing no problems. We used to watch thier disco lights flashing in their windows over the storm lashed waves at Christmas
