A Day in the Life Offshore - Golden Eagle

We do have to change how you think come on offshore it's completely different for work in an office where nobody goes home at the end today we don't have all mess here. Golden Eagles are production platforms it took 70 kilometers off the coast of Scotland but operating on plateau and their network is producing 77 thousand barrels of oil a day it's our 20 launch jacket construction the W platform contains the well heads the fluids from the wells flow across our 70 meter bridge onto the PUQ platform where it is processed before the exporting on shore. The layer the platform is such that the living quarters are segregated as far as possible from the highest hazards. Normally there is around 100 people (personnel) on board the platform has a maximum of 140 capacity. It's available when you've got three groups: your services, your maintenance and your production groups. The production is in the maintenance teams it's a very close relationship they maintain the equipment, we do monitoring of it and an operator and we've also got the services department and they are people that really make the installation run. They're cleaning the rooms, they are cooking your food… Golden Eagle is a 24-hour operation because it consists of a day shift and a night shift. We're meeting at six o'clock in the morning between the shifts to hand over any safety issues any production issues that have occurred during the night. During the day the team will liaise with on shore with any issues they have. Meeting of KPIs maintenance activities occur through the whole 24 hours so permits are assured, maintenance technicians will do various jobs during the day and then the evening again the job will be handed over again back to the nature. To be honest there's no real average day on the Golden Eagle -it changes whatever you set a plan that you try to work towards then variably it changes constantly which is part of the good thing about working offshore. It's a great environment especially the work balance that we have so spend the two weeks offshore. Yeah it's a good compromise to have three weeks, over generally obviously working 12-hour shifts and you have to deal with a lot of new situations as they arise so it's very demanding in that sense but obviously a lot of facilities allow it to take downtime. You know we have quite modern facilities here: we have a cinema, a snooker table, darts, well….. the gym is probably one of the best gyms in the North Sea. All the cabins have Sky TV which is fantastic so we don't have to fight about what's on TV which is really good from a female point of view. Food is good here offshore they cater for everybody's taste it's a real morale booster for the guys you know how high they are when they come into the restaurant area here after doing a hard shift outside [Music] Not everyone can do it. I mean we've had people out here that just cannot adjust to it, cannot adjust being away from home, can adjust to the kind of the pace of things out here that certainly takes a certain kind of person to work offshore. Big challenges won’t move shorter - missing homes probably the biggest one especially for the parties in here for Christmas and New Year. You must have people whom you love so much. But the big thing here is a team we work with here so you'll have always somebody to speak there if you need to speak to somebody you know so that it helped to get you through a long day. [Music] Working offshore: when we have a problem - we solve it if there's a fire - we fight it if someone gets hurt we look after that person. You're working alongside the same people all the time so you get to build a bond and a friendship you know what we work together and socialize together it's quite a big link yeah…. I worked offshore about 25 years now and I can't see working in any other place. There are plans to drill further wells they will come soon…. future is looking really good for the Golden Eagle.