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Baffinboy
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Cool article, thanks for posting. I took a couple of college buddies 2 weeks ago to fish the CC Bay wells and they were like, "what's that thing?" I forwaded that link to them. Wish I was smart like those guys, incredible !
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Bigrock
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| Very impressive indeed! |
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ironmanstan
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That's a lot of iron.
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maxthelab
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Holy cow, thank thing is huge with a capital U. |
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DGAustin
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| We saw it before lunch as we were going by the ship channel. Where is it going to be stationed, and what oil company owns it? It sure was moving slow, but as said, it is a lot of iron. |
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Bigrock
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| DGAustin wrote: | | We saw it before lunch as we were going by the ship channel. Where is it going to be stationed, and what oil company owns it? It sure was moving slow, but as said, it is a lot of iron. |
It will be towed to the Mars B project about 130 miles south of New Orleans. Shell is the principal owner, with 71.5 percent, and BP has the remaining shares.
It helps to know these things when you are associated with the big whigs of the industry. Barring that, it helps to read the accompanying links of the original post.  |
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rawlbay
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Anybody notice who was towing it? |
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NaplesJohn
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Going through the jetties as I type...
Judging by the abnormally high number of ships parked out front it also affected port traffic...
Couple pics as it cruised by
Out of the channel...
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jas027
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| ironmanstan wrote: | | That's a lot of iron. |
It is around 50,000 tons. |
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jas027
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| rawlbay wrote: | | Anybody notice who was towing it? |
We usually use tugs from Signet Marine. |
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kweber
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we just happened to be in Port A when Pompano went out...
92 I think...
laying on it's side it was 400' high and 1200 ft long...
they layed that rascal on a dang big barge and had a couple massive tugs out front and one on the back holding a tight rein.
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jas027
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| Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:13 am Post subject: |
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| Updated original post for video of it at the yard and leaving through the jetties. |
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Chef Lefty
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Those things always look top heavy to me. It is a beautiful site though.
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