Was in the great town of Houma on Tuesday and today filming the loadouts of a 3000 & 4000 ton modules bound for Alaska.

Pretty cool shoot except for the sun burn I got on Tuesday while on the manlift. I guess I was closer to the sun than everyone else.

Berard Alaska Module.jpg

Nice Tony, looks like you got a kool job.
I wonder how nerve racking it would be to drive Mammoet's transporters on that lift

Lifts like that are way better than the tall ones!! Those guys are top notch people!! That just another day in the park for them!! I get the chance quite often to work with them!!

I said big azz EGO, not BIG ASS!!!!!

How they get dat big sumbitch to alaska?

If I had to guess, I'd say by ship. The railyard I work at is right next to the Port of Port Arthur and we watch em off-load and move monsters like this all the time. All part of the Motiva expansion project.

Tony, What is it that you do for a living?

Do the "transporters" stay with the shipment? What was the measurements of it, and what is it used for? That's one big dog house.

was that at gulf island in houma if it was my father in law was the foreman over the carpenter crew that did the inside

I deal with Berard pretty regular at the shipyard I work at. We build barges in a shop and sometimes with the bigger barges, theyre built in modules. Berard hauls the modules out in the yard and helps us stab them together. When we complete the barge, they haul the whole unit to our launch system. Its pretty awesome watching those machines work. Those guys are very good at what they do.

Tony,

What exactly is the unit... looks like a set of cracking heaters?

It's a oil processing unit, like a production platform on land. The oil it produces will go in the Alaska pipeline.

Here's the Berard promo video I did a while back:

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVHg8Mlen1Q[/youtube]

I'd hate to have to rotate them tires.



Nice vid TB.

On the job we just did there was around 430 tires. . . . . each at about at least $500.00 each. Do the math, it's a shitload of money just in tires, not to mention the millions in the transporters themselves.

man i wish i woulda known tony.. im in and out of gulf islands yard all day. i work for oceaneering insp. we inspected all of the piping and structural welds on that project. These modules are huge!! glad to see em leave tho

dat was sterry. he does ultrasonic and magnetic particle insp.