I still have the magazine we got when the Queen came lost the cheap medal key ring worked for press stayed at toft still remember the bingo at toft/ferth £1000 iam 67 now but it was happy days as of now we used to fly into scater been back since to work on the gas plant
@rodcurrieclassics81028 ай бұрын
Hey Brian. I still have the Shetland Times newspaper from the Queen's visit in my desk beside me. Its very fragile now and I daren't turn the pages. I worked for Press in the plant shop. I also still have a pen we were given by BP at "First oil Ashore" . I left in '82 and have never been back though I hope to go. I'm still in touch with Roy "Goldfinger" Welford who you may recall sold watches and jewellery in the Wellie bar at Toft.
@50brian508 ай бұрын
I've been back to the shetlands about 5 years ago to the gas plant happy memories take care
@rodcurrieclassics8102 Жыл бұрын
I went up to the Voe in February '78 for 2 weeks with Miller Construction and stayed 5 years . I was 22 at the time and it was one of the best times in my life. Myself and my then wife got a wee cottage at Wethersta, near Brae. I think of those times with enormous fondness and the adventure it was for a young man to see this enormous enterprise grow out of the peat. Lots of the guys bitched about the weather, or the "4 week on and one off" trips. I loved every day and knew I was so lucky to be part of it all. Shetlanders are just brilliant people. Warm and funny..."we hae 3 months o' winter and 9 months o' bad weather" I could go on but you get the idea..
@suicidaltendencies99 Жыл бұрын
My nick name was young Jackie cuz I got caught jacking off by the cleaning maid a full load of cream went everywhere just as she opened the door
@oddities-whatnot2 жыл бұрын
Back in the day when plenty well paid jobs were about for anyone wanting them, plus housing was very cheap. Thats why a lot of older people that were part of this kind of industry are well off, with big final salary pensions and a house worth a small fortune. I cant see it ever being like that again for anyone in the UK. Those days are gone. There simply is not the opportunity for young men to walk into jobs like this, plus the cost of housing in relation to wages is a joke and final salary pensions have all but gone.
@garlandremingtoniii13382 жыл бұрын
The gentleman at 9:26 his accent, his brogue is so thick, I can barely, Just barely understand even a word, he says!! I’m dead-seriously serious. I need sub-titles at the bottom!!
@garlandremingtoniii13382 жыл бұрын
The Magnus Platform is still up and running!!!
@garlandremingtoniii13382 жыл бұрын
At 5:05 one of the guys says it was an extremely rough night. 100 knot winds. 💨 🌬 27 meter waves 🌊 I had to go look this up because we don’t use the metric system in America. 27 meter waves = 88 FEET HIGH!!!!!!!! DEAR LORD!!! Coupled with 100 knot winds!!! Which is Hurricane 🌀 Strength!!!!!!
@garlandremingtoniii13382 жыл бұрын
At 3:08 Is a LADY!! By God, one of the “FINEST BRITISH LADIES!!” That our LORD ever! Ever!! Created!! What we here in America called her out of our heart felt affection for her. “LADY MARGARET!! MARGARET THATCHER!!!! Dear God if she could have ran for President here, she would have won 🏅 by A MASSIVE LANDSLIDE!!!!
@iainmacrae42632 жыл бұрын
Went on board during the hook-up and stayed something like 12 years. It wasn't special, just like any other project I'd been on, a bit of a mess to start with. As ever the push was to get oil up a hole in the ground. I was on board the night the turbine stack disappeared into the sea, I was called out, I'd slept through the worst of it. I helped when the new one came on board. My wife Marie was on the first of the wives flights, we drew lots for that. One year we were promised a production bonus if an unrealistic target was reached. A well came on stream that flowed at 35k/day and didn't slow down. The target was reached and we all got the same £4k. I bought an FJ12. That's when we heard "contractors shouldn't get it" from some of the BP guys, not all by any means. I don't recognise any of the people in the video but I know all the names mentioned by Davy Duff. The last Magnus pal I was in touch with, Ralph Watson, deck foreman, died 2 or 3 years ago.
@Nerd39272 жыл бұрын
What I learned for a few of these videos, proficiency in business English is not really going to help in this industry :-)
@SRocco-dv8we2 жыл бұрын
Should re title …..click bait hot blonde sitting on table “
@Watts3782 жыл бұрын
lol she's at the end of the vid.
@FOX68192 жыл бұрын
03.58 My old mate Frankie Fromson R.I.P🙏🏻
@gasman4132 жыл бұрын
08:16 Gordon Park (red/grey jacket and blue shirt), he was my instructor at ASET oil&gas training in Aberdeen, in 2008 After our last day at the course Gordon took us to a pub for some fine Whiskey
@Bac9IBacuJIbeB2 жыл бұрын
I was on Sullom Voe oil terminal in 2015, during my contact on AFRAMAX oil tanker. Really huge place.
@richardcowley47373 жыл бұрын
The Regalia along side
@patriciaharper63923 жыл бұрын
Worked on Magnus a few times with ian found it a good platform to work on my offshore life started in 1977 and i just retired two years ago twenty years north sea and twenty two in the southern north sea enjoyed every minute of it Al Harper
@murrayangus3 жыл бұрын
Highly impressive! Just shows what we can achieve in the UK.
@seanjohn4672 жыл бұрын
i know Im randomly asking but does someone know a tool to log back into an Instagram account..? I was stupid forgot the account password. I love any tricks you can give me
@maxwelllucas48772 жыл бұрын
@Sean John Instablaster :)
@seanjohn4672 жыл бұрын
@Maxwell Lucas thanks for your reply. I found the site on google and im in the hacking process atm. Seems to take a while so I will reply here later with my results.
@seanjohn4672 жыл бұрын
@Maxwell Lucas It worked and I finally got access to my account again. Im so happy:D Thank you so much you saved my account !
@maxwelllucas48772 жыл бұрын
@Sean John no problem xD
@henrywood42333 жыл бұрын
Wot a bag o shugga! I joined the Magnus Hook-Up on the "Polycastle" flotel in Peterhead and sailed out to the "Magnus" Field on the Polycastle in 1982. We arrived there and it was bedlam right up to and even after "First Oil-In". Some gents in that film claim there was no difference between BP personnel and contractors! There was even a difference between the two kinds of BP Staff! Those solely on the hook-up project phase and those belonging to BP "staff" and I remember that this was most definitely emphasised by one certain Scouse OME who shall remain nameless . (Contractors of any description came a very distant third in life's ranks.) There were great days, there were bad days; happy days and sad days; good workmates from all disciplines *and* the very *small* minority of certain BP Staff who attempted to lord it over everyone else. Just like most other North Sea projects in those days ... The people interviewed in this interesting documentary seem to have worked there long *after* the hook-up when the "Magnus" eventually came on-stream. I was there onboard that day when Maggie, by satellite, was the star of the show. It was a grand day and I did like the souvenirs passed out to everyone, *including contractors* which my grandkids now have. Great days indeed - but not the halcyon days that some of the participants in this film claim - unless of course, they are only speaking of their own latter years experiences, long *AFTER* the "Magnus" was famous for being the "Magnus". The "Magnus" hook-up was long, hard, sometimes dangerous, but I would not have missed it for all the tea in China - or all of the oil in the North Sea!
@terrelmchenry95243 жыл бұрын
NEVER WANTED TO WORKOUT AFTER TRIPPING PIPE FOR TWELVE HOURS.
@marcbiff21923 жыл бұрын
Remember balance of payments.
@jamespaton85943 жыл бұрын
Was Alan originally operations managers on-shore in Sullom Voe control room? I was briefly a cargo surveyor 84/85 and recall him being a consummate professional.
@Crundibbler4 жыл бұрын
Hereslea hotel, absolutely brilliant, home from home
@davyduff35364 жыл бұрын
Best 7 years of my offshore life on Magnus.(87-95) Great cater crew,- Bob Fraser ,fergie, gus, Alan Gove and others. Alex Smith -storeman and jim seivewright also from Dundee
@TheRoweros2 жыл бұрын
Bob Fraser... what a decent guy 😀
@andrewkowalski39764 жыл бұрын
I worked on the Magnus in 1997.
@coletteduke62945 жыл бұрын
my late father .louis grindle worked for sullom .voe 1985 .he loved the place so much he moved to lerwick from .south yorkshire .england
@paulstephenson12766 жыл бұрын
First trip offshore on the magnus
@Trollberg60north6 жыл бұрын
Brilliant film, could you make one highlighting the earthmoving and construction with the big machines, trucks cranes etc?.
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I still have the magazine we got when the Queen came lost the cheap medal key ring worked for press stayed at toft still remember the bingo at toft/ferth £1000 iam 67 now but it was happy days as of now we used to fly into scater been back since to work on the gas plant
Hey Brian. I still have the Shetland Times newspaper from the Queen's visit in my desk beside me. Its very fragile now and I daren't turn the pages. I worked for Press in the plant shop. I also still have a pen we were given by BP at "First oil Ashore" . I left in '82 and have never been back though I hope to go. I'm still in touch with Roy "Goldfinger" Welford who you may recall sold watches and jewellery in the Wellie bar at Toft.
I've been back to the shetlands about 5 years ago to the gas plant happy memories take care
I went up to the Voe in February '78 for 2 weeks with Miller Construction and stayed 5 years . I was 22 at the time and it was one of the best times in my life. Myself and my then wife got a wee cottage at Wethersta, near Brae. I think of those times with enormous fondness and the adventure it was for a young man to see this enormous enterprise grow out of the peat. Lots of the guys bitched about the weather, or the "4 week on and one off" trips. I loved every day and knew I was so lucky to be part of it all. Shetlanders are just brilliant people. Warm and funny..."we hae 3 months o' winter and 9 months o' bad weather" I could go on but you get the idea..
My nick name was young Jackie cuz I got caught jacking off by the cleaning maid a full load of cream went everywhere just as she opened the door
Back in the day when plenty well paid jobs were about for anyone wanting them, plus housing was very cheap. Thats why a lot of older people that were part of this kind of industry are well off, with big final salary pensions and a house worth a small fortune. I cant see it ever being like that again for anyone in the UK. Those days are gone. There simply is not the opportunity for young men to walk into jobs like this, plus the cost of housing in relation to wages is a joke and final salary pensions have all but gone.
The gentleman at 9:26 his accent, his brogue is so thick, I can barely, Just barely understand even a word, he says!! I’m dead-seriously serious. I need sub-titles at the bottom!!
The Magnus Platform is still up and running!!!
At 5:05 one of the guys says it was an extremely rough night. 100 knot winds. 💨 🌬 27 meter waves 🌊 I had to go look this up because we don’t use the metric system in America. 27 meter waves = 88 FEET HIGH!!!!!!!! DEAR LORD!!! Coupled with 100 knot winds!!! Which is Hurricane 🌀 Strength!!!!!!
At 3:08 Is a LADY!! By God, one of the “FINEST BRITISH LADIES!!” That our LORD ever! Ever!! Created!! What we here in America called her out of our heart felt affection for her. “LADY MARGARET!! MARGARET THATCHER!!!! Dear God if she could have ran for President here, she would have won 🏅 by A MASSIVE LANDSLIDE!!!!
Went on board during the hook-up and stayed something like 12 years. It wasn't special, just like any other project I'd been on, a bit of a mess to start with. As ever the push was to get oil up a hole in the ground. I was on board the night the turbine stack disappeared into the sea, I was called out, I'd slept through the worst of it. I helped when the new one came on board. My wife Marie was on the first of the wives flights, we drew lots for that. One year we were promised a production bonus if an unrealistic target was reached. A well came on stream that flowed at 35k/day and didn't slow down. The target was reached and we all got the same £4k. I bought an FJ12. That's when we heard "contractors shouldn't get it" from some of the BP guys, not all by any means. I don't recognise any of the people in the video but I know all the names mentioned by Davy Duff. The last Magnus pal I was in touch with, Ralph Watson, deck foreman, died 2 or 3 years ago.
What I learned for a few of these videos, proficiency in business English is not really going to help in this industry :-)
Should re title …..click bait hot blonde sitting on table “
lol she's at the end of the vid.
03.58 My old mate Frankie Fromson R.I.P🙏🏻
08:16 Gordon Park (red/grey jacket and blue shirt), he was my instructor at ASET oil&gas training in Aberdeen, in 2008 After our last day at the course Gordon took us to a pub for some fine Whiskey
I was on Sullom Voe oil terminal in 2015, during my contact on AFRAMAX oil tanker. Really huge place.
The Regalia along side
Worked on Magnus a few times with ian found it a good platform to work on my offshore life started in 1977 and i just retired two years ago twenty years north sea and twenty two in the southern north sea enjoyed every minute of it Al Harper
Highly impressive! Just shows what we can achieve in the UK.
i know Im randomly asking but does someone know a tool to log back into an Instagram account..? I was stupid forgot the account password. I love any tricks you can give me
@Sean John Instablaster :)
@Maxwell Lucas thanks for your reply. I found the site on google and im in the hacking process atm. Seems to take a while so I will reply here later with my results.
@Maxwell Lucas It worked and I finally got access to my account again. Im so happy:D Thank you so much you saved my account !
@Sean John no problem xD
Wot a bag o shugga! I joined the Magnus Hook-Up on the "Polycastle" flotel in Peterhead and sailed out to the "Magnus" Field on the Polycastle in 1982. We arrived there and it was bedlam right up to and even after "First Oil-In". Some gents in that film claim there was no difference between BP personnel and contractors! There was even a difference between the two kinds of BP Staff! Those solely on the hook-up project phase and those belonging to BP "staff" and I remember that this was most definitely emphasised by one certain Scouse OME who shall remain nameless . (Contractors of any description came a very distant third in life's ranks.) There were great days, there were bad days; happy days and sad days; good workmates from all disciplines *and* the very *small* minority of certain BP Staff who attempted to lord it over everyone else. Just like most other North Sea projects in those days ... The people interviewed in this interesting documentary seem to have worked there long *after* the hook-up when the "Magnus" eventually came on-stream. I was there onboard that day when Maggie, by satellite, was the star of the show. It was a grand day and I did like the souvenirs passed out to everyone, *including contractors* which my grandkids now have. Great days indeed - but not the halcyon days that some of the participants in this film claim - unless of course, they are only speaking of their own latter years experiences, long *AFTER* the "Magnus" was famous for being the "Magnus". The "Magnus" hook-up was long, hard, sometimes dangerous, but I would not have missed it for all the tea in China - or all of the oil in the North Sea!
NEVER WANTED TO WORKOUT AFTER TRIPPING PIPE FOR TWELVE HOURS.
Remember balance of payments.
Was Alan originally operations managers on-shore in Sullom Voe control room? I was briefly a cargo surveyor 84/85 and recall him being a consummate professional.
Hereslea hotel, absolutely brilliant, home from home
Best 7 years of my offshore life on Magnus.(87-95) Great cater crew,- Bob Fraser ,fergie, gus, Alan Gove and others. Alex Smith -storeman and jim seivewright also from Dundee
Bob Fraser... what a decent guy 😀
I worked on the Magnus in 1997.
my late father .louis grindle worked for sullom .voe 1985 .he loved the place so much he moved to lerwick from .south yorkshire .england
First trip offshore on the magnus
Brilliant film, could you make one highlighting the earthmoving and construction with the big machines, trucks cranes etc?.