Well tomorrow morning I catch a flight to Tokyo, Japan and then swap planes for Busan, S Korea. Never been to South Korea before so it should be an interesting trip.
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Well tomorrow morning I catch a flight to Tokyo, Japan and then swap planes for Busan, S Korea. Never been to South Korea before so it should be an interesting trip.
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safe travels!
hope it's a fun trip.
watch out for that crazy dude to the North.
Safe travel indeed! Should be a very neat place to visit. Pics as usual?????
Of course there will be pictures haha. Gotta test this new iPhone 5 camera
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Enjoy the time change. Changing days is tough on the body.
Have fun, you are going at the right time of year.
Just boarded the plane in Houston. Next stop....Tokyo, Japan!
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Now for some photos!
Here is a placard about the shipyard I have been working in all week. Its pretty amazing to see
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the beach
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ship yard from the beach
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they were having some sort of swimming competition and had at least a couple thousand participants in a number of different heats. these tents were all over the beach
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ship yard again
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this is my new home away from home floating offshore so sea trials, we have been day tripping to the ship every day by boat
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alot of people cramped into a small area here
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A staircase we stumbled upon that went up into some awesome trails with great views
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another shot of my home away from home from some neat mountain trails we discovered
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ship yard from the mountain trails
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the beach from the mountain trails
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proof i was there!
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our ship again
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the swimmers!
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lots of awesome looking rock formations out here
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alot of locals were out fishing
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a cool looking bridge that went out to a rock that houses a dragon that protects the area
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i got off the marked trail to do some exploring a little closer to the water
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lighthouse
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the walking path
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my coworker i am with likes to try different foods so we stopped here down by the water where locals were serving up fresh caught raw oysters, urchins, sea squirters, and other weird creatures...
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the buffet of food
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by the light house
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Great pics. Keep 'em coming. What are you guys doing there?
They are putting the finishing touches on a new drill ship in the HHI shipyard and I got assigned to it so they sent me and my future relief down here to get familiar with the equipment and layout before it heads to New Zealand in Oct to go to work. So I will go home in a couple weeks and probably come back one more time or so.Quote:
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Great pictures! Thanks for posting. How is the food on the rig?
X2 ... Enjoy the picsQuote:
Originally Posted by deerfield
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Ok so I used my ninja skills to shoot some spy photos for the largest ship yard in the world for your guys. 15% of the ships worldwide are built right here...
Here are some of the ship currently under construction in the ship yard
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and everyday here would put daytona or sturgis to shame...if they rode scooters are daytona and sturgis
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And here is my new ship.
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Currently the ship yard is building the following drill ships
Noble Sam Croft
Noble Bob Douglas
Diamond Blackhawk
Diamond Black Rhino
Diamond Black Hornet
Rowan Renaissance
Bolette Dolphin
and there are like 2 more that I can't remember
There are also 2 more ship yards in S Korea currently pumping out Drill Ships...Job Security haha
Here are some shots of my equipment on the ship. Took them about a year to install all of this.
Twin GE Electric motors make 1250 hp EACH!
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The white lines are sea water cooling lines to cool the transmissions, pumps, and 1250 hp electric motors
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15,000 psi high pressure pump
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these two big cans get dry bulk cement blown to them, from there is falls into a recirculating water jet where it is mixed to the proper density and then we pump it down the hole
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The two tubs on the left and right are where the cement mixes, those then overflow into the big tub in the middle which is then recirculated and pumped down hole
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With this set up we can mix and pump cement at over 15 bpm. which is equal to 630 gallons a minute and we can do this at pressure in excess of 5,000 psi.
[QUOTE=rdlangston13;2239. Took them about a year to install all of this.[/QUOTE]
Must be unions.
All great but let's see the wake!
Not much of a wake at 11 knotsQuote:
Originally Posted by kaneboats
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Well, tell them to row faster.
we only have 64,368 hp (10,728 hp per engine x 6 engines). But even with all that engine power, we only have 40,230 hp of thrusts with 6 thrusters at 6,705 hp each. We just need more power!Quote:
Originally Posted by kaneboats
So here are some more fun drill ship facts!
752 ft long x 118 ft wide
36 ft draft!
we have 4 deck cranes, three with a 100 ton capacity and one with a 165 ton capacity
we have a 42,848 bbl fuel tank (roughly 1.8 million gallons)
we are capable of drilling wells in 10,000 ft of water with a rough well total depth of 40,000 ft.
The 210 ft tall derrick is actually two derricks in one, the main one has a lifting capacity of 1,250,000 lbs while the aux one can lift 750,000 lbs.
We can accommodate up to 210 workers out here at a time.
That sounds awesome. Except for one thing. No beer on board, right?
No beer, but thats the good thing about day tripping...The corner store by my hotel has 1 liter Hites for 2 bucks!Quote:
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Last day in Ulsan today. Headed home tomorrow just in time for the Jam!
Safe travel!!!!