Perfect Display of Engineering ....

Honda Motor Japan engineering team created this video clip spending few millions to perfect the various motion into this video clip. It is an example of Honda's Engineering perfection and a show of their determination to ensure whatever they do in reaching their aim of "Good Engineering Mechanics and Perfect Synchronization with spoton timing".......... Let us follow this example and start thinking what we in our company should do in our day-to-day work activity and where we could improve or better the performance,productivity or overall output.

A Floating Hotel Rig

Floating Hotel
http://www.floatel.se/Gallery_2__.html

It cost about S$400 million and almost two years to build in the yard. The Floating hotel may not look like much on the outside, but it provides full hotel-like accommodation for oil-rig workers

The sparse, small one-man cabins of the floating accommodation rig, may bear little resemblance to those of cruise ships, but for oil-rig workers they are welcome comfort with similar superior 5-star hotel standard. Each of the 440 cabins comes with a single bed, an ensuite bathroom, a desk, a wall-mounted television set and a window with views of the sea. The home-at-sea even has its own sauna, movie theatre, gym and medical clinic.

This rig is often chartered by oil companies to house their drilling rig workers and attached to the rig by a bridge over a fixed well platform.

It is the world's first newly built North Sea-compliant floating hotel in more than 20 years with DP3 system.

Such rigs typically operate only in either tropical or cold waters, so 'being able to operate in two vast weather environments means better charter opportunities'.

The crews come by helicopter, landing on a helipad, before heading to the arrival lobby to check into their cabins.  Instead of in-house restaurants, there is a mess-hall that seats 220. A catering company provides three meals daily.  About seven 50-tonne containers of food are flown in every two weeks and stored in freezers and chill rooms. 

There are about 25 accommodation rigs in the world and their average age is 25 years.

It is just like a cruise ship except missing are the open pool and casino..... :)

Recently the Accom semi operates at Bayu Udan field which is under Conoco Philips and this well site was the place where our first B-class Jackup by Chiles Offshore went there for drilling contract.   The operator is ConocoPhilips, which has a 56.27% stake. Partners are Eni (12.04%), Santos (10.64%), Inpex (10.53%) and Tokyo Electric Power and Tokyo Gas (10.08% each). Bayu was discovered in early 1995, when the Bayu-1 well intersected a 155m gas / condensate column, at a depth of 897m.

This tested 2.54m³ per day of gas and 5,250bbl of condensate. The follow-up well, Bayu-2, tested 991,000m³ per day of gas and 2,000bbl of condensate from a 52m interval.

In July 1995, Undan was discovered 10km north-west of Bayu, where a 139m gross hydrocarbon column tested 1.6 million m³/day of gas and 3,900bbl condensate/day. The total recoverable field of reserves is 350-400 million barrels of hydrocarbon liquids and 3.4tcf of gas.

The 25x15km field will require approximately 26 wells over its lifetime to produce the reserves, 16 of which - including the first high-angle well in the Timor Sea - will be required before start-up. The field life is estimated to be 25 years. Commercial production began in April 2004, delivering 115,000bpd of condensates and LPG.

The project has been developed in two phases. The $1.8bn gas-liquids first phase involved the production and processing of wet gas, the separation and storage of condensate, propane and butane, and the re-injection of dry natural gas back into the reservoir.

Now the site has a remote Wellhead platform (WHP), a drilling, production and processing platform (DPP) and a compression, utilities and quarters platform (CUQ). The recovered liquids are piped to a floating storage and offloading (FSO) facility. 

The CUQ and DPP platforms both consist of an eight-leg steel jacket, slotted to accommodate topside deck floatover. The jacket dimensions are 48x50m, with a height of 90m.

The topsides were built at the Hyundai fabrication yard in Ulsan, South Korea. The CUQ topsides weigh 11,500t and are 72m long, 80m wide and 31m high, while the DPP topsides weigh 13,900t and are 65m long, 64m wide and 41m high.

The processing equipment for the Bayu-Undan fields includes three 23MW gas-turbine-driven injection compressors, two 7.5MW gas-turbine flash gas compressors and two turbo expanders. It has high-pressure (100 / 310bar) column vessels and four gas-turbine-driven generators.

The topsides were installed in November 2003 by Dockwise, under a contract awarded by Perth-based Clough-Aker Joint Venture covering their transportation and installation.

Floating storage and offloading facility

This integrated condensate and LPG storage offloading facility – the world's first at the time – can store 820,000bbl (130,000m³) of condensate, 300,000bbl (47,500m³) of propane and 300,000bbl (47,500m³) of butane. It has no propulsion system of its own and is 248m long, 54m wide, with a tonnage of 150,000dwt. Accommodation is available for 60 people.

The purpose-built FSO, named the Liberdade, was built by Samsung Heavy Industries, launched in Korea in September 2002 and permanently positioned offshore in the field about a year later. It processes the condensate and LPG, and stores them before they are loaded onto tankers for export. As such, it is designed to exploit remote oil and gas reserves that might otherwise be stranded for decades.

           Courtesy from youtube, Floatel Superior landing a personnel bridge over Njord A platform

More pictures of the rig below :



Courtesy of Upstream, 7Nov2012, Wednesday afternoon that 326 people have now been moved to the Njord A platform while 48 people tasked with emergencies duties remain onboard.The floatel is “now being prepared for removal out of the safety zone” around Njord A.

Hotels rig "Floatel Superior" has come to Kristiansund for repair and maintenance. Here moored at Bremsnes area waiting to come to the wharf at West Base, downloaded from youtube, 10Nov2012.  There were 374 people onboard the floatel when one of the anchors in the anchor rack came loose and fell, striking and bursting one of the outer ballast tanks early on Wednesday morning.

The unit began to list between 3 and 4 degrees but, once the damage had been assessed in daylight, was soon righted by ballast water being released into the opposite tank.

Nevertheless field operator Statoil ordered all bar essential workers to be evacuated, a process hampered somewhat by strong winds.

Should we stop Email ?

In some ways, advance high-tech tools and software have evolved in a way that almost “kill us” or place the skilled working staff in a bind. Just look at the email conundrum. From the moment you reach office early in the morning, it seems the inbox is calling your name. And if you’re like most of us, you will reply the mails pretty quickly. It’s literally painful or you just feel uneasy not to download your email the moment you arrive at your desk in the morning. But once you’ve processed 50 to 100 emails, you probably have ruined your brain alertness or activity for higher level tasks that are going to create more productivity and output value.


A recent study done for HP found that “infomania” — a term connected with addiction to email and texting — could lower your IQ by twice as much as smoking. Moreover, email can raise the levels of adrenaline in your brain by constantly introducing new stimuli into your day. When those levels get too high, complex thinking may be more difficult, making it difficult for you to make decisions and solve problems — which is the main roles for people like us, managers.

Likely our brain’s capacity for decision-making evolved at a time when you had lesser stress or less to think about. Therefore, we may need to rethink and how to take control of our daily life with the potential of having our work activity flooded with more emails than required and not forgetting the nuisance of receiving unwanted spams, adverts, junk mails,etc. We need to :

Control our Inbox -

Try not to start your day downloading new mail automatically or, at the very least, turn off any alert system. Preferably, set a time to check for messages manually — preferably later in the day, after you’ve used your brainpower for more important stuff and project issues,etc.

Emails should be short, concise, and used only when a conversation is not an option. The easier communication is to digest, the more likely it is that the messages will be delivered effectively.

Some colleagues seem unable to help themselves. They send too many long emails; they gossip or forward jokes. Get them to divert their personal chatter online by allowing them to use social media at work (even if it’s just at set times of the day). Or the company has to step in and do something about access to external emails or limit the staff from engaging in unproductive stuff. I educate everyone who I communicate with and as a result, the emails I do receive are pertinent to me. I restructure those emails, copy them into ongoing documents, and try to keep my inbox low, create rules to purge those unwanted spams,etc,,

If you’re reaching a breaking point and if you need to,simply wipe your inbox to start afresh, but before you do it, scan through and make sure important ones are archive for action later. It seems drastic, but it can work. Send a message to all contacts letting them know what you’re planning. Try planning a new regime of folders and information-sharing disciplines

Relook at your prioritizing mails -

To help you prioritize, start by setting clear goals. Prioritizing is one of the brain’s most energy-hungry processes. That means it’s best done when your mind is fresh and well rested. Allocate time to order your thoughts —it won’t break the back of the work you need to cover.

Blindside the data -

Break down complex information into sub-groups. Once you’ve determined a goal, you can “chunk” your work into groups to achieve it. You can also do this with your to-do lists.

People are generally very bad at estimating when they’ll finish their own work, but good at guessing for others. So gauge your timing by using someone else’s experience. You’ll be less stressed if you’re realistic about your workload.

Try handle less -

To handle less, we should delegate more. Too many senior staff can’t resist the temptation personally to get involved in everything that’s affecting his department or section. But effective delegation means limiting the amount of information you have to process, as well as empowering those around you. Make use of your intelligent staff around you and get briefing and updates periodically.

Switch off -

Many managers feel they can’t shut off. In most cases, it just erodes your focus. You need time to synthesize information and generate real intelligence. That takes discipline, of course, but it’s useful to stop thinking when you are stuck on a project so your brain can recover. You do need to switch off and rebalance your brain chemistry if you’re going to come up with new ideas or solutions

Mistakes senior officers make with e-mail....

1. Using vague terms. Be clear about the subject, and update the subject heading line if needed.

2. Avoid using the BCC line. One of them is bound to reply all and your belittle act will be noticed one of these days.

3. Clean up the mail threads before adding to the mess and confusion with your next new reply.

4. Use of poor grammar and style. Do try to write in a professional way and not use broken English or Singlish…….

5. Avoid writing long winded e-mails. You may find people will not respond as your long email will either irritate or they do not have time to read.

6. Writing needlessly long, bulky paragraphs. Write in digestible para if you need to and be short and itemized so that readers find it easy to read and understand.

7. Do not forget mail courtesies. Always be polite and mention the “thank you” in public; but criticize,if need, in private one-to-one.

8. Other forms of communication might be better. You do still have a phone, right?

9. E-mail is legal document. An e-mail you write today is evidence in court and could be used as evidence in disputed cases.

Your CV’s should not reflect these ……

1. Do avoid “cartoon” effect . Use standard format, do not use weird fonts or unnecessary photo images in your resume. It makes your resume “overdone” and strange.

2. Omit the references. Including references on the resume itself says that you needed it for filling up the gaps, or you just don’t understand how proper the system works. Provide references only upon request.

3. Don’t write “stories”. Try to write in bullets and short, impactful sentence fragments that tell your experience and capability with a minimum of reading.

4. Don’t leave out the figures. Quantify your accomplishments.

5. Don’t list past responsibilities. No one cares what your last job’s requirements were. Including them may send the message that you don’t understand that your job is to provide value through accomplishments.

6. Do omit objective. Objectives may reflect incorrect presentation and lead to insincerity and specific roles at each company you apply to may not be matching.

7. Spell check. Your CVs should be completely spell checked, free of grammatical errors.

8. Do include your appropriate photoshot. Make sure it is a presentable shot and look professional

9. Don’t get too personal. Don’t include too much information about your personal interests or hobbies unless it’s relevant to the role. Concentrate on job specific.