Oil Industry Intervention

Rib_Devil · 18 January 2014, 20:10

Evening all. I keep hearing about ribs being used for intervention in the oil industry. Could anybody please be kind enough to let me know exactly what this entails? Thanks in advance.

chewy · 18 January 2014, 21:35

What sort if intervention?

Rib_Devil · 19 January 2014, 02:05

I think it possibly involves divers but I'm not too sure.

biffer · 19 January 2014, 06:11

May be something completely different to what you think, a good few years back I was involved in doing a couple of ribs with machine gun mounts on, they were used to combat piracy. They were called intervention craft on the export docs

chewy · 19 January 2014, 08:37

I take it we're not talking North Sea then.

Zippy · 19 January 2014, 09:12

didn't parker sell one of their demo ribs to Greenpeace a year or so back.

perhaps that was used for a different kind of intervention recently?

Rib_Devil · 19 January 2014, 11:36

I think I may have answered my own question. I think what I'm referring to is well intervention which I believe is where work is basically carried out on an oil well during it life. Thanks for all your contributions.

beamishken · 19 January 2014, 12:54

You wouldn't use a rib for well interventions you need a bloody big specialist ship or rig for well interventions

Rib_Devil · 19 January 2014, 16:19

Sorry, it's more than likely that I've just misunderstood. It must be the anti-piracy work that they were referring to. Thanks all the same though everyone.

Andre · 19 January 2014, 16:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zippy

didn't parker sell one of their demo ribs to Greenpeace a year or so back.

perhaps that was used for a different kind of intervention recently?

that was my Black Magic a Parker 650 Diesel rib. Photos taken of the News on TV last year. The rib is probably back with Greenpeace or in service with the Russian Border Guards

Barrowboy · 19 January 2014, 18:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andre

that was my Black Magic a Parker 650 Diesel rib. Photos taken of the News on TV last year. The rib is probably back with Greenpeace or in service with the Russian Border Guards

Could have been worse.

If the Chinese had got hold of it, the reverse engineering would be well advanced by now and you'd be competing with cheap imports this summer looking remarkably similar to yours but at half the price!

Rib_Devil · 20 January 2014, 14:42

Take a look at this, Work Boat - KD Marine. Think this is the sort of thing I was thinking of.

tonka · 23 January 2014, 16:33

Hi there
They use daughter craft/ribs for diving work when a dsv can't or isn't allowed to get close enough to the platform or FPSO for the divers to reach the work location I hope this helps