Just general surfing stuff
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Re: Just general surfing stuff
For a little while I worked directly for a company extracting gas from offshore formations just west of Bass Strait. The offshore rig and onshore processing plant are relatively new, but require continual maintenance. They're never too far from a potentially disasterous fcukup
The scale of potential extraction from the Bight is massive. Infrastructure will be built as cheaply as possible with second rate steel sourced from China. Within 10 years of commissioning, maintenance will be a serious issue. The most challenging part of this is the high probability facilities will be sold, perhaps more than once. The buyer brings along their own operating and maintenance protocols and there is real likelihood of confusion and lost information
I have a couple of Aussie mates in Norway and will encourage them to raise their voices
The scale of potential extraction from the Bight is massive. Infrastructure will be built as cheaply as possible with second rate steel sourced from China. Within 10 years of commissioning, maintenance will be a serious issue. The most challenging part of this is the high probability facilities will be sold, perhaps more than once. The buyer brings along their own operating and maintenance protocols and there is real likelihood of confusion and lost information
I have a couple of Aussie mates in Norway and will encourage them to raise their voices
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Re: Just general surfing stuff
Most big companies regard maintenance of high risk facilities as a money drain. Like, “sure, it could go horribly wrong but it hasn’t for decades so we’ll cut the maintenance budget a little more”. While not an oil rig, i have seen that attitude become standard where I work. Especially since the GFCswvic wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 4:02 pmFor a little while I worked directly for a company extracting gas from offshore formations just west of Bass Strait. The offshore rig and onshore processing plant are relatively new, but require continual maintenance. They're never too far from a potentially disasterous fcukup
The scale of potential extraction from the Bight is massive. Infrastructure will be built as cheaply as possible with second rate steel sourced from China. Within 10 years of commissioning, maintenance will be a serious issue. The most challenging part of this is the high probability facilities will be sold, perhaps more than once. The buyer brings along their own operating and maintenance protocols and there is real likelihood of confusion and lost information
I have a couple of Aussie mates in Norway and will encourage them to raise their voices
Re: Just general surfing stuff
just to change the subject from saving the world and back to more RS level discourse, Kirra/Greenmount today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG-nyoE ... e=youtu.be
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Hallelujah brother, the gods are smilingctd wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 5:22 pmjust to change the subject from saving the world and back to more RS level discourse, Kirra/Greenmount today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG-nyoE ... e=youtu.be
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Re: Just general surfing stuff
The Greenmount cam is classic. Really starting to pump up there.
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Kirr-ikey!ctd wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 5:22 pmjust to change the subject from saving the world and back to more RS level discourse, Kirra/Greenmount today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG-nyoE ... e=youtu.be
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Re: Just general surfing stuff
Heath Joske on Equinor. My gut feeling, based on having a few friends in the maritime industry, is that drilling will go ahead, not by BP for now but there will be others once Statoil / Equinor hit the jackpot. There are certain morons here in SA who are pro oil drilling in the bight, like a mayor on Kangaroo Island who is quite vocal about the benefits e.g. jobs etc. and the usual uneducated guff. Not that he has any say in the matter but he gets press. https://youtu.be/p8eU7idBtZw
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Fanno and Parko together at Kirra, perhaps today. How did Fanno make it out of that modest-sized tube? Not as easy as he makes it look.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BuInk4bHTED/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BuInk4bHTED/
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foamy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:51 pmFanno and Parko together at Kirra, perhaps today. How did Fanno make it out of that modest-sized tube? Not as easy as he makes it look.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BuInk4bHTED/
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I still don't buy the "official" narrative about 9/11. Oh sure, it happened, fcuk yeah. But who and why and how I'm, not convinced it was what we've been told.
You aren’t the room Yuke You are just a wonky cafe table with a missing rubber pad on the end of one leg.
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I still don't buy the "official" narrative about 9/11. Oh sure, it happened, fcuk yeah. But who and why and how I'm, not convinced it was what we've been told.
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I was getting ready to go out and every knob was talking about it. It’s days like today that I hate the GC whilst loving it.
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Yes its time to talk swell size. Hodaddy posted a link for Noosa saying it was 4~6 ft and crowded. Thats what I would call it from the youtube video.
Put your big boy pants on
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
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Maybe only just 6ft on the biggest sets at the pot where it jacks up.
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Thats what I thought...more like 5'
Put your big boy pants on
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
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I thought 5 foot was still in Iggy's scale?
Lennox is 7-9 foot today.
Lennox is 7-9 foot today.
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