Travel Bug Dog Tag Glomar Beaufort Sea 1 aka Concrete Island Drilling System (CIDS)

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Released:
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Origin:
Alaska, United States
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of debrak.

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The Glomar Beaufort Sea 1 aka Concrete Island Drilling System (CIDS) tracking bug would like to visit 'offshore' drilling communities throughout the world!!!!

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the 'CIDS'

The Glomar Beaufort Sea 1 aka Concrete Island Drilling System (CIDS) was built to drill offshore of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska and the surrounding area.  After drilling a few wells over several years off Alaska's Prudhoe Bay and some Canadian offshore leases the CIDS  was leased to Exxon in 1984, renamed the Orlan and moved to Russia for drilling and production operations.

Below are some specifications for the CIDS...

Concrete Island Drilling System (CIDS)


Glomar Beaufort 1 (now called the Orlan)


Client:

 Global Marine Development, Inc.

Project Location:

 Alaska, U.S.A. & Sakhalin Island, Russia

Project Scope:

 Design and Construction supervision of a reinforced pre-stressed concrete platform

Project Details:

 325ft. x 325ft. floating platform, oil exploration drill rig and facilities, 100-key hotel

Challenge:

 Concrete platform to be afloat and grounded while resisting ice pressures of 130,000 lbs./ft.2 (6.2 MPa)

Solution:

Use of Alfred A. Yee’s patented Honeycomb System with pre-stressed reinforced concrete walls provided buoyancy, strength, and flexible structural system for floating platform base.

Results:

Construction was completed within 4 months, in time for launch during the warmer summer months into the Arctic seas off Alaska. Completed in 1984, total cost of construction was US$75 million. The CIDS platform, Glomar Beaufort 1, was leased to Exxon Mobile for US$45 million/year . In 2004 it was renamed the Orlan and the facilities aboard the platform were completely refurbished for oil drilling and production off the coast of Russia.

The CIDS is a unique drilling structure and to my knowledge was the original of Yee's Honeycomb System and an example of the expense that goes into providing the fuel we use today!!! 

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Tracking History (4621.8mi) View Map

Visited 2/8/2013 sloni15 took it to Aye Chihuahua Washington - 2.46 miles  Visit Log
Visited 2/8/2013 sloni15 took it to Yolanda hates this kind Washington - 2.38 miles  Visit Log
Visited 1/15/2013 sloni15 took it to Truckin' Washington - .75 miles  Visit Log
Visited 1/15/2013 sloni15 took it to Cassie's Griddle Washington - 26.82 miles  Visit Log
Dropped Off 12/30/2012 Hippychick1620 placed it in Deer Creek Crossing Washington - 13.82 miles  Visit Log
Discovered It 12/29/2012 sloni12 discovered it   Visit Log

saw this in the hands of sloni15
Retrieve It from a Cache 12/29/2012 sloni15 retrieved it from Deer Creek Crossing Washington   Visit Log

There are no drilling places around, but maybe I can get it near a refinery.
Retrieve It from a Cache 12/17/2012 Hippychick1620 retrieved it from CACHE MACHINE Washington   Visit Log

Retrieved from "cache machine" cache, will move along in the next couple of weeks at the "cache machine" event.
Dropped Off 12/16/2012 noworrynow placed it in CACHE MACHINE Washington - 5.42 miles  Visit Log
Visited 12/16/2012 noworrynow took it to Silvana Terrace Overlook 8TB Washington - 40.29 miles  Visit Log
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