Picture of the Day
The Nor Chief in Cuxhaven recently. This is a ship built for the Singapore company Nor Offshore in 2008. Since then Nor Offshore was purchased by Solstad and it is now known as Solstad Offshore Asia Pacific Ltd or SOAPAC for short (They obviously did not fancy it being called SOAP. The ship is one of five identical units all with about 10,000 bhp a available. The only question is what was it doing in Cuxhaven.
Photo by Olaf Kuhnke recently and posted here on 18th April 2016.
Just for a change here's a Picture of the Day which is associated with a bit of news. The Henry Goodrich, which had worked offshore Canada for years before being dismissed in the current downturn, is now on its way back towards the White Rose Field from Norway, where it will resume work for Husky. This photograph shows it being serviced by the Atlantic Kingfisher, during a maintenance period.
A slightly grainy but historic photograph of the first offtake from the Foinaven Oilfield, in 1997 (according to the internet). If people thought the weather was against them in the North Sea, out in the Atlantic, the location of this field, they were to face conditions at a whole different level. In order to make crew changes the helicopters will wait at some friendly location on the Shetland islands hoping that at some point the windspeed will drop sufficiently to allow them to land. Once, when leaving a semi-submersible out there, I had to crawl across the helideck to get to the aircraft.