Working on the Rigs

JSP · 11 December 2008, 23:49

A guy on a photography forum I used to moderate works on the Oil rigs and is a cracking photographer. I've asked him if he would mind if I showed you them here and he agreed.
Photographer name: Terry Cavner

JSP · 11 December 2008, 23:50

and a few more.

matt h · 11 December 2008, 23:50

awesome, incredible,

chewy · 12 December 2008, 06:52

I worked on the last one for about 8 months (The Bruce).
Your mate must work on the boats does he?

Cracking photos!

Neither of these are my work:

Leapy · 12 December 2008, 07:24

What's with the fairground rides and bungie jumping?

chewy · 12 December 2008, 08:25

Thats what you do on a weekend in between clay pigeon shooting from the heli deck and playing golf off the heli deck, ok so the clay pigeon shooting was made up!

codprawn · 12 December 2008, 14:54

They look more like oil paintings than photos - awesome stuff!!!

JSP · 12 December 2008, 15:10

Some info on Terry.
"I am a Rigging Supervisor from Blyth. I work offshore on a Dive Support Vessel supporting the oil industry in the North Sea as well as abroad"

JSP · 12 December 2008, 15:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by chewy

I worked on the last one for about 8 months (The Bruce).
Your mate must work on the boats does he?

Cracking photos!

Neither of these are my work:

Nice photoies Phill. I only know of him through a forum like this one but see post above.

Simon B · 17 December 2008, 14:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by chewy

I worked on the last one for about 8 months (The Bruce).
Your mate must work on the boats does he?

Cracking photos!

Neither of these are my work:

I nearly applied for a job on Bruce via Petrofac, they took ages to phone back and quoted the date as I made contact with them as my date of birth saying "so how old are you?" They also did not seem to understand what a maintenance planner did. I didnt take much more interest in Petrofac after that.

chewy · 17 December 2008, 15:34

It was Wood Group who were on the Bruce, obviously been kicked off. Atlantic Resourcing who are Petrofacs agency have been fine to work for in the past, always seemed to have plenty of work.

Ribomaniatic · 19 December 2008, 02:35

What do two yellow stripes on the side of a vessel mean, because I notice the supply vessels for rigs have them, but so do the pilot vessels (?) in Southampton Water, are they just a marking of an industrial workboat?

Josh

chewy · 19 December 2008, 08:09

Think its just because they had some yellow paint left over.
Not sure if all the "Viking" boats have these markings. The standby boat we had in Morecambe Bay had a Acid House smiley to drop containers onto, it was a big yellow circle until the lads got bored!

JSP · 19 December 2008, 09:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by chewy

Think its just because they had some yellow paint left over.
Not sure if all the "Viking" boats have these markings. The standby boat we had in Morecambe Bay had a Acid House smiley to drop containers onto, it was a big yellow circle until the lads got bored!

I think I've seen that boat. It was there when the dredger sank at Heysham ( BBC NEWS LINK )
Not sure how that thing sank, it's owned by one of the biggest dredging companies in the UK and had just finished Fleetwood dock. In fact you can just see it on the left of this fisheye photo.

JSP · 18 December 2009, 19:27

A few more from Terry Cavner Photography.

Quote from Terry
Pic 1
"the rolling seas and the Janice Alpha Platform...weather stopped play for 24 hours...which has probably destined us to Christmas out here...we have 24 hours of diving left...a steam in to Aberdeen,Leith or Newcastle.. approx 20 hours pick up a spool....20 hours back ...fit and test it ...then home"

Pic 2
"A look at todays weather conditions in The North Sea...we are currently out of limits for diving...we are chomping at the bit in bitterly cold conditions...we have approx 12 hours of diving left...we need to transit to Aberdeen...if the port is open...maybe Leith or even Newcastle steam back out and fit the pipework...all before Christmas....fingers crossed"

Knot Yet · 19 December 2009, 08:56

Phenomenal photos thanks for sharing John - he's a cracking photographer

paul holder · 19 December 2009, 12:34

thank god the uk still have some proper men left

Trell · 20 December 2009, 11:05

Took these out in Malaysia earlier this year, Murphy (the oil company) didn't like paying for choppers so we were still using Billy Pugh's.

JSP · 22 December 2009, 15:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trell

Took these out in Malaysia earlier this year, Murphy (the oil company) didn't like paying for choppers so we were still using Billy Pugh's.

Great shots Trell