Wednesday, November 27, 2013

November 27, 2013: Samco Amazon and BBLT

365 Project, Day 124
Here is my day 124 submission to my 365Project:

There was a tanker working in the area today; the Samco Amazon was filling up off the Kuito Calm Bouy and Kuito FPSO. You can see it's stern here with BBLT in the background. We've had to move our operations while the tanker was filling for 36 hours. 

If you look closely you can see a small brown object in the water under BBLT (the rig)...this is actually a small, wooden motor vessel full of local fishermen. We've seen a few of these boats around recently...it's quite the contrast seeing these small scale, artesanal fishermen 40 miles offshore doing their hand line fishing around these massive offshore structures!



Fact of the day:
The Benguela, Belize, Lobito and Tomboco oil fields form the BBLT development which lies offshore Angola in an area called the Congo Basin. 


Read more about BBLT at this Offshore Technology webpage.  

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