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If it's this windy in Birmingham, what's it like WOS

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6789255/Downpours-drench-UK-today-jet-stream-drags-wind-rain-Atlantic.html

I think it will be great if PMO get export credit funding for two reasons

1) It's probably the only way that Sealion will get sanctioned

2) It will show that the British Govt. is committed to the project.
This is very important in case Argentina decide to turn nasty again.

Sovereign
It looks like you were right and I and a few others were wrong.

Please accept my humble apology.

Cebo-456
Sovereign admits he was just trying his luck and really doesn't know anything.
But why he would do that? … maybe to try and look clever if he was right!

"Scoreagainsteps - We can only hope weather plays ball. All this is new to me, basically just trying my luck but in my opinion I believe we are close."

Adoubleuk
You say "The only thing I feel pretty confident about is that the standby boat Grampian Dynamic will not have been used as some sort of delivery-boy service"

I totally agree.

As I've said all along, IMHO the first thing for them to do is to replace the old rope on the buoy with the new rope that we are all waiting for.
This will require a suitable vessel such as the Olympic Zeus so I can't see much point in delivering the rope to the AM.
So, until the ship watchers report such a vessel has arrived in the vicinity of the buoy, then we should all just relax and have another beer or glass of wine.

Just my opinion,

Solan has been a disaster only producing about 10K Barrels/day but can anyone tell me what the original estimated production was supposed to be?

Hurricane is starting to resemble Ithaca more and more everyday.

"The long-awaited start-up of the Stella field was pushed back several times during the development. The most recent issue that delayed the start up arose in November when a routine inspection found faults on a number of electrical junction boxes on the unit’s processing facilities. The start-up was then pushed from November to January to make room for repairs. However, the repairs took longer than expected pushing the start-up all the way up to February."

But once the problems were fixed, the SP started to rise and just kept on going till it was 6x the Feb SP in just over a year … from 20p to 120p

Nice if HUR does the same!

The Olympic Zeus is on the move … but not to Lancaster … It's heading down to Dusavik.

When the AM is fully operable it will reach 20,000 barrels per day (gross).
If my maths is correct, that's about 1 barrel every 4 seconds.
Wow ! I wish my toilet filled that fast .. the damn thing takes about 5 minutes.

LadySonia
You must have bought some of those that I sold ! ( I wish )

12:03 - 25/02
Sell 3415710 44.40p £1,516,472.77

fitguy5
The Olympic Zeus isn't going anywhere at the moment … it's back in Bergen.

Or it could mean:

WE ARE "working towards an FID by the end of the year" BUT IT COULD BE NEXT YEAR!

I find this list of countries by oil usage interesting.
For instance .. who would have thought that Canada uses as much oil per day as Germany and 50% more that than France or the UK?
Whereas it has only half the population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_consumption

When Sea Lion is up and running, there will be 10's of thousands of barrels of oil being produced per day in the Falklands.
Ironic that they will only need 300 bpd for themselves.
They are 207th out of 209 countries when it comes to oil usage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_consumption

snaggletooth
I don't think that the rope will be on the GD heading towards the AM.
The normal procedure is to first attach the rope to the Buoy (after maybe removing the damaged rope) and then later, when the AM is in position, the other end will be retrieved and attached to the winch in the AM.
Whether this is done by an ROV or requires divers, I've no idea … but in either case it will probably require a special vessel.

Thus IMHO the rope should be heading out to the Buoy WoS and not to Cromarty.

JiffyBag
More on George ‘Johnny’ Johnson.
Very brave man
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/last-dambuster-just-representing-squadron-knighthood-would/

JiffyBag
Is that the same George 'Johnny' Johnson who was turned down for a Knighthood … I suppose a real Knight is someone who can knock a tennis ball over the net at Wimbledon?

escargot
You wrote "Not specifically aimed at you WW"

No .. I think it was aimed at myself and JoeSoap.
You could easily put us on filter or just ignore the posts.

You wrote "Sorry I don't mean to be unkind but who gives a fook about such detail"

Being as how nothing is going to happen until the buoy is connected (could be weeks away) then I thought that would be the subject on peoples minds and was worth discussion on how it was going to be done.

But I got 3 ticks and you got 8 … so YOU win and I'll stop posting anymore on the subject.

JoeSoap
I think that you are wrong when stating the following:

"As DC posted, the buoy does not add to the lift-load until it is clear of the water. But looking at the photos on HUR we can read the height of the buoy and it appears to float at around 6.5 meters, leaving 10 meters above the waterline. It also appears that the same 10 meters is the part contained within the turret, so it's weight is never lifted as it is always in the water underneath the FPSO by that same amount".
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Archimedes' principle states that the upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid, whether fully or partially submerged, is equal to the weight of the fluid that the body displaces and acts in the upward direction at the center of mass of the displaced fluid.

Thus the effective weight of the buoy will increase as soon as the cone starts to clear the water and enter the lower part of the turret, as less fluid is being displaced.

If you watch this video, @ 2.00 minutes it shows the buoy being disconnected from the turret.
It would appear that the fluid flow line connectors, between the buoy and the core of the turret, are disconnected automatically.
I would assume then that the reverse is true when the buoy is pulled into the turret.
If that is correct then how on earth do they make the connectors align properly in the first place?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjtYjiGmDIc