FRIDAY PHOTOS
Brae A Jacket - There were a couple of guys on the top of the jackets and they were lifted off by PLM Helicopters from Dalcross. The 2 little jackets were for Danbor, a Danish company. I worked on them all as I was at McDermotts Ardersier from 1975 until 1984. Was my 1st hook up in 1986. Yep. Easy done. We actually had a problem with the accomm jkt during installation in May 87. We had to take it out, back to ardersier to refit the anodes and reinstall in Dec 87...... Memories when you think all the wind farm jackets for Uk đ&#x;‡Źđ&#x;‡§ waters are being built overseas Remember the jacket piles that were built by steel engineering in westway at renfrew got pictures of them being moved through the
town. Big engineering that’s now just a memory terrible that the government is allowing such work to go overseas when we have so many skilled here Aye it’s sad Sammy that we don’t do more. I worked on the Beatrice jackets last year at bifab but it’s all gone to Europe now
the Viking jackets on it and stranded across the other side on the sandbar on the day they were due to sail away?
Vulcan 1 valiant and vanguard were the 3 jackets that Howard Doris were working on
Worked there on Piper Bravo in 1990
Yep they had only just started prep on the basic bents HMC is currently preparing to take out Brae Bravo topsides and jacket, great to see another pic from the archives! Koen. Time flys. I worked for HE in Regent street London office in 82 on the early Brae inst studies. Left HE for Brown & Root and worked on the Brae B jacket & MSF detail design...wow. when I first come across the infamous Henk Van Dalen (Snr)..who I become to know well when working for different operators over the years when we were negotiating T&I contracts. Ah memories. The Conoco jackets were sole sourced to McD after the collapse of Howard Doris. My brother developed and let the McD contract over a weekend, over which my team worked to create multiple copies of every single engineering deliverable. Most have been thousands of specs and drawings. Fast work. We got the certification out of Doris pretty sharpish I worked at McDermotts at that time and the 2 little jackets you see were for Danbor, a Danish oil company.In fact I also worked on the Marathon Brae "A" jacket also. Those were the days!! If I recall one of the barges broke free with
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Worked on Brae B at Davy Offshore Modules , 11 Modules, they got it built for a fraction, crap rates and crap Unions