Chinese Rigs as good as their Bikes!?!

[WishayKillie]

Christ add a bit of choppy salt water and they fall to bits.

[Nai]

Ruddy eck

[Deckx]

Those 3 leg jack-ups are a pretty shit design for bad weather..

I wouldn't rate the Chinese any less than Texans ... have you worked with those nutters

I'm surprised half the gulf of Mexico is not up in flames... almost feel sorry for BP because more than likely their 'contracted' rig was staffed up by a bunch of red-neck locals and then you get that twat Obama talking complete shit about probably one of the top 5, safest companies in the business

[WishayKillie]

[Moonie]

[warped one]

The thing you have to think about with all the states like China is.

How many things like this go unmentioned by the media and thus unheard of because their government are to inept on trying to be a super power that they fail at everything?

Please excuse my very poor analogy but it is something that was mentioned earlier.

China and all other states are in reality just like those 15y.o girls you see strutting around in next to nothing and trying to attract attention. In their minds it is good attention because they can show off to their friends about how they now travel in a nova instead of the bus.

Moral of my shit story is, yes you may seem big to people your size but to everyone else you are still small, pathetic, and hopefully grow out of this phase before someone gets hurt.
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[DrDonnyBrago]

[SpicyBlimp]

[Visitor Q]

[Mr Hammers]

What I can't stand is this snobbishness towards chinese oil rigs. It's like everyone's been brainwashed into thinking that US or British oil rigs are sooo much better, when in actual fact, well, yes they are. But still, eh.

Take it from me, I've bought oil plenty of times, yes, I've been to many a Halfords, and the oil, whether it's from a chinese oil rig or a american one is as good, if not better, but it might be worse if it isn't better, so long as you don't buy oil with spokes. Oil with spokes is probably trash.

There isn't a British or American oil rig that doesn't have some chinese men on, and only a handful of those aren't originally 'made in china'. Moreover, there aren't even any US oil rigs with chinese men, it's just americans with sellotape on their faces to look like chinese workers, calling themselves Xing, and Xong, and other chinesey sounding names.

I hear people complaining that chinese oil rigs rust much quicker than american ones, but have you ever left an oil rig in your garden over the winter? That's right, it's just as rusty, if not a lot more rusty, as an american oil rig made entirely of plastic, ever notice that? Nor me.

That's not to say that chinese oil rigs are better, even though they are, but there are some things you need to watch out for;

1) Legs. Stay away from any chinese oil rigs that use legs to raise them above the water line. Can't explain why as I have no idea and just made it up anyway.

2) Oil flange mud pump drill bit twisty things. If a chinese oil rig has these make sure they're made of diamond coated titatnium carbon fibre platinum, or stay the hell away.

3) If the oil rig comes in a box, ask yourself this; how the fuck am I going to build an enormous oil rig in the back garden? Am I even qualified to build an oil rig? Why don't I have a 300mm spanner?

4) If the rig is already built ask the question: how am I going to get a bloody massive oil rig down my narrow street? Whose idea was this? What were they thinking. ffs?

5) Yes, the rigs are the same. Exactly the same. Built by different people to different quality controls with different materials in a different country with different safety restrictions, but otherwise EXACTLY the same.

6) Quality engineering is what makes British and American rigs last so much longer, not rocket science. If your chinese oil rig falls to bits very quickly, that means you have been using it.

So, while chinese rigs are as equally good in quality as western rigs, except when they're not, and they never are, let's just stop this brainwashing and realise that western rigs are no better than chinese rigs. Apart from when they are. Which is all the time.
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[c_dug]

To Mr Hammers

Thank you for making me laugh before going to work. Today will be a good day now. Plus Linkin Park - Numb was the radio, which it never is!

You have helped make today a good day.

Thanks

c_dug

p.s. oil rigs are bad m'kay
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[WishayKillie]

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[Walloper]

[WishayKillie]

[Tristan.]

[Deckx]

here's a pic of the last rig i worked on..... Sank as they were towing it from the Fabrication yard over in Texas.... Had to do a complete re-build so a 6 month commissioning contract for me turned into a 3 year job... must have been the fucked up project i will ever be on but as the saying goes "Chaos equals cash"

Could have stayed on as onshore Maint support but couple of years in Angola really fries the brain

[panrider_uk]