how an entire offshore oil rig is removed

Cool Ship.

Due to the OSPAR Convention,
North Sea oil rigs cannot be dumped at sea
under a "rig to reef" program.
Rigs must be returned to shore and dismantled.
With many of the North Sea rigs being decommissioned,
a ship of this design was required.

Rig to reef doesn't make sense? Eco system where one didn't exist.

Makes financial sense for oil companies,
if they are allowed to do so.

Maybe the billions of dollars the Japanese spent over
20 years building and testing reef designs,
with results showing at best a 10% increase in biomass
in some years,
and with the conclusion that the reef building had little
actual effect on yearly harvests once natural fluctuations
in the biomass were accounted for.
That might have had some bearing on their decision.

GARRIGA , in the game of making $ & lots of it . Rig to reefs makes a lot of sense

Prior to the rigs I believe much of the gulf was flat featureless bottom. These things are oasis regardless how one feels about their affects when things go bad. You'd think leaving them there stripped of any components that may contaminate might make sense. Like with ships stripped then sunked. Sink it and they will come. Me thinks.

You should run for the House of Rep ....

Could use the dollars. Lol

GARRIGA said:

You'd think leaving them there stripped of any components that may contaminate might make sense.

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They eventually become a hazard to navigation as they deteriorate.

In addition, they represent a large liability.
BP decommissions a rig, leaves it place as a FAD,
donates the rig to the state.
Hurricane HungryJack blows through,
knocks over the rig and sends it colliding
with the new rig installed by Garriga Oil.
State will responsible for the damages,
and potential cleanup costs to the environment from oil spilled.
Lots of risk for a few more fish,
why its not done.

Chit happens?

slowpicth said:

You should run for the House of Rep ....

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Considering the ignoramus we have running the country,
Garriga would fit right in.


Êtes-vous d'accord ?

GARRIGA said:

Prior to the rigs I believe much of the gulf was flat featureless bottom.

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"The snapper fishery began in earnest, before the civil war.
New England vessels, called smacks (because they carried baffled live boxes in which the water smacked the sides) came to the Pensacola region in the 1850s. The "snapper banks" south and east of Pensacola supported the harvest from this virgin fishery in the early days. With the advent of ice a few decades later, the complexion of the fishery changed, and more vessels entered the fleet.

The early catches off Pensacola and Mobile, from very limited hard bottom, were dominated by large (10 pound +) fish. Harvest peaked around 1880, at about 2 million pounds annually. The fishery then began to expand to the southeast, toward Tampa."

Smacks ruined the fishery. They always do. 10# snappers. Oh my.

First to cheat for rings as well.

HungryJack said:

They eventually become a hazard to navigation as they deteriorate.

In addition, they represent a large liability.
BP decommissions a rig, leaves it place as a FAD,
donates the rig to the state.
Hurricane HungryJack blows through,
knocks over the rig and sends it colliding
with the new rig installed by Garriga Oil.
State will responsible for the damages,
and potential cleanup costs to the environment from oil spilled.
Lots of risk for a few more fish,
why its not done.

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State has sovereign immunity. Garriga Oil is SOL.

Can't catch a break

CDB said:

State has sovereign immunity. Garriga Oil is SOL.

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Eff Garriga Oil, they got billions.
Heard their founder uses $100 bills taped to his jigs while fishing for RS.


You are correct, state is off the hook.
Actually, it would be the feds who would foot the bill,
the rigs are in fed waters and would become their property.
And thus by extension, you and I pay the bill for cleanup
though our tax dollars.

GARRIGA said:

First to cheat for rings as well.

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I think they learned that from Chicago in 1919.
They just did it the other way, for the cash, not the ring.

NOt sure how they are doing it else wheres but here in the Northern GOM, the current method for the shallow water rigs (200 - 500 feet) is to cut the rig off about 100 feet below the surface and sink the upper portion of the rig next to the legs. They don't blow the legs anymore either , too many complaints.

here's a link

http://www.rig2reefexploration.org/read-me/

http://www.outdooralabama.com/alabamas-rigs-reefs-program-great-start