Demolition of oil platform - video

**Jon** · Sep 17, 2022, 05:45 PM

Demolition of oil platform. 0:58 video:

Previously:

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Excavator chimney demolition gone wrong - GIF
Floor-by-floor Japanese building demolition - GIF and video
Perfect controlled demolition of twin chimneys - video
Excavator building demolition gone wrong - GIF
Demolishing a 300-foot electrical tower by cutting the guy-wires - GIF
Explosive crane demolition - GIF and video
Demolishing a roof while sitting on one of its supporting poles - GIF
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**IntheGroove** · Sep 17, 2022, 08:19 PM

They could have turned it into an Airbnb...

**Moby Duck** · Sep 17, 2022, 10:02 PM

That sort of explosive demolition works fine for brick and concrete buildings, but demolishing a huge steel structure like that makes no sense to me. They will have ended up with a mangled pile of buckled steel that will be far more dangerous and difficult to cut up and remove. The fibreglass life rafts will also be tangled up in that pile and would have been far easier to remove prior to the explosion.

**mcthistle007** · Sep 18, 2022, 06:50 AM

And why not Salvage the Useable stuff like the Lifeboats. There would have been a mountain of real good surplus equipment on that Rig. Yeah does'nt make sense. Now a mountain of dangerous tangled mangled metal that has to cut up.