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It used to be tolerated many years ago (+/- 10 yrs)?..but not any more in Europe due to fishing gear getting caught up in sub see pipe work, etc, with the main exposure being to divers and ROV?s (Remote operated vehicles) Still a healthy past time over seas I hear! Was good fun, as the drilling activity causing vibration which attracts the fish and of course same with all the surface lights that light up the water around the rig; this has the same effect on fish as lights at home do with bugs, etc I guess. Fishing boats (in fact all vessels) have to stay outside a 500 meter exclusion zone around any offshore installation, but they used to come in close by quite often and that would cause all kinds of hell for both parties. Supply vessels don?t come inside the 500 meters zone without asking for permission from the rig/platform, and if a vessel is on a suspected collision course with the rig, then the standby boat puffs out its often wee chest and takes off to intercept the said vessel; fist by getting closely enough to get a call sign or name and then by getting in it?s way if necessary.

....or is this forum not the best place to be for all kinds of reasons.... buying, selling, getting free and sound advice on a daily basis, track day info, banter, general news, feeling like you are part of a sound group, keeping in touch, developing friendships, maintaining existing friendships... Place goes from strength to strength all IMHO Well done the SIDC team I say, for maintaining the place and keeping it a no hassle zone

I touch goats back Sti wheels provisionally sold Yes, they are all RE070's BTW

Hey Chris, That's the ENSCO 102 bud, built by Keppel Fells in Singapore in 2002, sister rig to the ENSCO 101, built by Keppel in 2000; which is where you and I have been. (me a bit longer than you....) The E102 has the new accommodation block style that wraps around the bow leg. This helps keep as much weight towards the forward end of the rig to counter react the drilling package hanging out over the aft end. This means less sea water ballast in the tanks around the bow, which equals more variable deck load, which equates to more drilling equipment and other goodies for the operator. The E102 is working offshore Oz, down under. We sent a few senior supervisors down there from the E101 in 2002 to share the learnings and its fellow from Inveruire (close to where I live) that is looking after it down there.

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Yes, they have been standard on turbo cars since at least 99 onwards. My 99 wagon came with 4 pots

Chris, Crane Op.....Garbo perhaps Bit scary to look at, but a nice fellow once you get past the brashness and tattoos. From Gt Yarmouth, Norwich area/ That ring a bell?

YHM....Time to come to Abz for a job interview

Is that the end of James do you think? I mean to say.....

I was up Inverness way last week and everywhere you go Tesco supermarkets are poping up. They are getting into anything and everything nowadays; not sure it is all good Real shame for the country towns and villages I think. Up pops a Tesco and look at the effect on the local garden centres, music shops, cafes, ironmongers, clothes shops, wine shops, paper shops, butchers shops, fish shops,?..hell you will be able to go and get your hair cut there soon. The Tesco shop in Inveruire is taking more than 1 million pounds a week in turnover and they want to extend the place. Local planners are not happy, and Tesco have said fine, we will sell the site and build over the other side of railway bridge on the Oldmeldrum road?and they would get their money back in +/- 12 months. Short term good deals to me; another 10 years and where are all the family run businesses going to be that all our rural areas were built around and what will the main streets look like. I have very mixed feelings about what really is an aggressive takeover of the countries needs, not to mention the way they profile us all with the club card. Some very cute work going on there....and we don't even see it happening

Not my thing, but what a heap of work and dollars

You been watching that Brainieacs program

Mirrors are also from Olly at RCM. 02 period WRC jobbies. Delighted with them Before After

I have heard figures of 3 to 5 BHP

Thanks Pete; Matt has worked his magic in some other areas, hence I needed the brakes They are top blokes and well worth the journey down from Aberdeen

Good news that things are back on track

Looks good to me My 8 year old just asked is that a toy or it it a real car .....think it will be quite real came the reply

Chris, I used to spend a couple of weeks with Marcus Bruce; he is TP now and Scott is Driller and as for that Ugly Derrickman called smiechel; he's also promoted. If it was the time we changed out the drill line on the Drawworks we were definitely out there together; I was on the floor for the whole bloody night and we did it in good time, without incident I may add. Small world, ain?t it

Speaking to a scooby mate last night who was telling me about the motorbike fatality at KH at the weekend. Was a local fellow to Aberdeen who works for John Clark BMW bikes. Info posted on the Aberdeen Bikers web site info here. Track day event was organised by his work to demonstrate their bikes. He was out on his own bike at the time of the accident; no others involved. Not the kind of news we have come to associate with track day events; very sad indeed. Condolences to his family edited - Link fixed

JAC = Jools Alexander Coghill. Original I know

Chris; that was I said the blind man Was OIM on the 101 since I joined her during the build and then the commissioning phase out in Singapore Sept 99. Took her to Europe in Q1 of 2000 and was offshore Denmark until mid March 2005. She is in the East Irish Sea right now for Centrica and soon to move round to the SNS off Norwich and go to work for Tullow on the ex Shell assets. Onshore based in the Abz office now. Don?t tell me you were out there as well at some point

Fronts are AP 6 pots with 355 mm x 32 mm discs and rears are a set of new standard Brembo discs that Olly had machined to match the fronts. Brian Downie painted the rear callipers to match the fronts also. All fitted with DS 2500 pads. Many thanks to the aforementioned gents for an excellent job all round

Supplied by Olly at Roger Clark Motorsport and fitted by Brian Downie at Kemnay. Fronts are AP 6 pots with 355 mm x 32 mm discs and rears are a set of new standard Brembo discs that Olly had machined to match the fronts. Brian Downie painted the rear callipers to match the fronts also. All fitted with DS 2500 pads. Many thanks to the aforementioned gents for an excellent job all round

This is the kit RCM fit; works fine when you are on the move. After a bit of DIY work with the "cold pipe" and bit of drilling to the fog light cover.