How to Design an Oil Platform | Shell’s New Vito Platform
Kari Byron of MythBusters discovers how Shell’s new oil and gas platform is redefining deep-water energy for the company. Find out why the design makes Vito, Shell’s most efficient oil and gas platform ever built. Subscribe for more: https://go.shell.com/3j0t9x2
By streamlining the design process, utilizing the latest technology and global collaboration, learn how we got Vito to be just a third of the size of the #Appomattox in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction: Engineering Marvel on a Smaller Scale
1:09 This Episode: How Vito Is Designed and Built
1:36 Inside Kiewit Offshore Services, Texas
2:16 Vito vs. Appomattox: The Case for Compact Design
3:43 How to Design an Oil Platform in 3D
5:06 Inside Virtual Vito: Engineering in VR
7:03 Rewind Three Years: Building Vito in Singapore
7:39 Steel Quality Control at Sembcorp Marine
8:48 Hull and Topsides: Building in Two Halves
9:24 Floating for the First Time: The Stability Test
10:08 The Archimedes Method: Weighing 14,000 Tonnes
12:44 The Goliath Crane: Joining the Two Halves
13:05 Back to Texas: Final Fit-Out and Testing
14:05 Ultrasonic Leak Detection: 7 Miles of Pipework
15:56 Next Episode: Vito Goes Live
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