Yo guys,
For those that are interested with mega-structures, here’s a photos of an interesting one (its also the project I am having affair with now).
Interesting facts about it:-
overall length = 337m (4.5x length of Airbus A380)
breadth = 54m (slightly more than swimming pool’s length of 50m)
depth = 21m (Airbus A380′s height is 24m)
generated power = 125MW (more than Batang ai’s 100MW capacity)
oil processing = 180,000 barrel per day (or 11 olympic sized swimming pools)
oil storage capacity = 2 million barrel of oil
total weight of steel used = 77,682 tonnes
fresh water capacity= 1268m3 (29 thousand carton of 365ml dozen pack of Coca-Cola)
Now, that’s a life-long supply of Coca-cola!!
fun facts
19 December 2007
Please oh please keep writing! Your articles are wonderful!
jim
24 December 2007
hi fun facts! many thanks! Glad u enjoyed it!
jim
24 December 2007
oh ya, really enjoyed ur website http://www.dailyfacts.org/about/ too!
music
7 January 2008
very interesting.
i’m adding in RSS Reader
Edwin Lay
11 May 2008
WOW
Roll
18 September 2008
Did you take a helicopter ride for the shot? Heheh.. any chance to take me for a spin as well?
jimonge
30 September 2008
roll, sadly, (but true), I have not been to the platform where it is permanently moored. During construction, went there often, as it was at quayside. While platfor, is at the bay, we need to use 20min boat ride to go there, so been there once. When it was towed to 1,800m water depth, around 1hour by helicopter, that’s basically bye-bye for me
No need to go there unless there’s a need, and basically, there’s no need for me to go up, as I am engineering guy, and engineering is completed liao.
so we are in the same side Roll, when can I take a helicopter ride!?!?
alex
16 April 2009
jim, the page just appeared at the first row when i googling for P54…, nice pictures..cheers!