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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
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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!!!!

About This Item

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 8/9/2012 akgh519 took it to YOW to ANC Meet and Greet Alaska - 5.29 miles  Visit Log
Visited 8/8/2012 akgh519 took it to Pop Carr Park Cache Alaska - .94 miles  Visit Log
Visited 8/7/2012 akgh519 took it to Movie Mania Alaska - 3.11 miles  Visit Log
Visited 8/6/2012 akgh519 took it to We Are Royalty Alaska - 37.84 miles  Visit Log
Visited 8/5/2012 akgh519 took it to Avalanche Engineering - Seward Highway Cache Tour Alaska - 32.08 miles  Visit Log
Visited 8/4/2012 akgh519 took it to Entrance to Exit Alaska - 25.96 miles  Visit Log
Visited 8/3/2012 akgh519 took it to Bird View of Tern Lake - Seward Highway Cache Tour Alaska - 43 miles  Visit Log
Visited 8/2/2012 akgh519 took it to The Magical Disappearing Mountain Alaska - 1.16 miles  Visit Log
Visited 8/1/2012 akgh519 took it to Seven From One Alaska - .1 miles  Visit Log
Visited 7/31/2012 akgh519 took it to 90r7 Alaska - 4.32 miles  Visit Log
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