A Look INSIDE an Amazing Six-storey $1 Billion Offshore Platform

The offshore drilling platform Berkut is one of the largest in the world. This is a huge fully autonomous plant on giant reinforced concrete piles, which not only drills new wells, but also extracts several thousand tons of oil every day from a huge depth. The platform is able to withstand 18-meter waves, withstand temperatures down to -44 C° and the pressure of ice fields up to 2 meters thick.

[favordavid]

So how deep is the water there… if its sitting on the seabed

[mrknotthall]

It never ceases me amaze me how humans can design and build such an amazing and complicated piece of equipment. I’m blown away by their intelligence.

[hitzoneproductions]

I was one of the engineers who helped in the design and material selection of this rig. The weather was absolute hell. Most of the world has zero idea how powerful mother nature can truly be.

[kevingonzalez]

As a chief of operations of an offshore oil rig, I can tell that this is an amazing career that comes with a lot of sacrifices. Money is good, in my case, more than 1M per year, but im a full living oil rig worker, this means that theres no helicopter or ship that brings me back to my house every other week, I usually spend 6 months straight then 2 weeks off and I do another 6 months, no days off, no schedule, pure work.

[tomm.]

Brings back a lot of memories worked on a few offshore rigs surprised they didn't show the living quarters

[superweedenjoyer]

The fact that they built the columns into the water and then just plopped the rest of the rig on top is unreal

[starzkream]

Another reason the rig will pump wastewater back into empied cavities is not only to dispose of it, but to also prevent the empty cavities from collapsing and destabilizing the seafloor.

[MohammedAlia_]

The thought process behind the design is completely mind-blowing

[GlassOfWater]

It's absolutely mindblowing what we humans can achieve once we decide to work together.

[zaiks]

The sheer scale and complexity of the thing ... 😯

[dougdiplacido]

What an amazing feat of engineering and design. Thanks for bringing this to us.

[tshiamochabalala]

Engineers are not appreciated enough this is an example of sheer engineering masterclass. I cannot even imagine the careful planning and execution that went into this colossal machinery.

[blususpect]

Human engineering will never cease to amaze me

[billymadison]

The engineering that goes into something like that is amazing

[outlaw]

Mankind builds incredible things like this and yet we have war.

[maundamartin]

Just to build the stuff to build the RIG IS INCREDIBLE.

[assmanxhire]

Amazin engineering. I was hoping to see the living quarters, offices, bathrooms, shops, all of it, not only the cafeteria. I'm guessing it has a rec room and maybe a cinema. Oh well, still, great to see this bit. Thanks for posting it.

[buzzfunk]

The engineering magic humans can do always blows my mind. Too bad we waste so much away with wars....

[jaimetorres]

Bíg miss! Show the living quarters, Exercise area and how do the employees live

[mantia]

It is truly astounding what humankind can build.