Student 1 Do you know any interesting facts about petroleum engineer- 
ing? 
Professor The Petronius Platform is a compliant tower (гибкая башня) 
in the Gulf of Mexico, which stands 610 m above the ocean  
floor. It is one of the world's tallest structures. The Hibernia  
platform in Canada is the world's largest (in terms of weight)  
offshore platform, located on the Jeanne D'Arc basin, in the  
Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland. This gravitybase structure (GBS) (конструкция гравитационного  
типа), which sits on the ocean floor, is 111 m high and has 
storage capacity (вместимость, емкость, объем) for 1,3  
million barrels (210,000 m3 
) of crude oil in its 85 m high cais- 
son. The platform acts as a small concrete island with serrated  
outer edges designed to withstand the impact of an iceberg.  
The GBS contains production storage tanks and the remainder  
of the void space is filled with ballast with the entire structure  
weighing in at 1,2 million tons. 
Student 2 And what about the future? 
Professor Royal Dutch Shell is busy with the first Floating Liquefied  
Natural Gas (FLNG) facility, which will be situated approxi- 
mately 200 km off the coast of Western Australia. It is ex- 
pected to be approximately 488 m long and 74 m wide with  
displacement of around 600,000 ft when fully ballasted. 
Student 3 Is the personal the same on all platforms? 
Professor No, not all of the following personnel are present on every  
platform. On smaller platforms, one worker can perform a  
number of different jobs. 
Student 4 Tell us about the drill crew (буровая бригада), please. 
Professor Drill crew is an incidental personnel, it’s on board if the instal- 
lation is performing drilling operations. A drill crew will nor- 
mally comprise: toolpusher (специалист по буровым  
установкам), driller (бурильщик), roughnecks (рабочий  
буровой бригады), roustabouts (разнорабочий), company  
man (представитель компании), mud engineer (инженер  
по буровым растворам), derrickhand (верховой рабочий),  
geologist, welders (сварщик) and welder helpers. 
Student 5 Other types of incidental personnel? 
Professor Yes, for example, well services crew (сервисная бригада).  
It’s on board for well work. The crew normally comprises:  
well services supervisor, wire line (проводной шланг) or  
coiled tubing (гибкая насосно-компрессорная труба) oper- 
ators, pump operator (насосный оператор), pump hanger 
(установщик насоса) and ranger (смотритель насоса). 
Student 6 Could you clarify, what other people work on platforms? 
Professor For example, OIM (offshore installation manager (ответ- 
ственный за установку платформы в прибрежных  
водах)); operations team leader (OTL); offshore operations  
engineer (OOE) who is the senior technical authority 
(старший техник) on the platform. 
Student 7 Well, and what is an automation systems specialist?
Professor It’s a person that has to configure (формировать), maintain  
and troubleshoot (диагностировать) the process control  
systems (система безопасности), process safety systems 
(система безопасности), emergency support systems 
(система аварийного обеспечения) and vessel management  
systems (система управления платформой).
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