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saintkeppy:
Nigeria always have state-of-the-art FPSO Vessels.
I can remember I was still in school when this Usan Deepwater Project by TOTAL was ongoing. My friend's elder brother was this project's Well Completion Engineer.

I think Usan FPSO operated by TOTAL should rank second,
The Usan FPSO can refine 160,000-180,000 barrels of oil and 5 million cubic metres of gas daily. It has storage for 2 million barrels of oil as well.
The FPSO is 320 meters long, 61 meters wide, and 150 meters high including the flare.
Built by Hyundai Heavy Industry, Ulsan @South Korea & it took like 3months to sail to TOTAL's Usan Deepwater Project, Nigeria, about 100km Offshore Port Harcourt.

This project &Agbami operated by Chevron made me consider to study M.SC in Subsea Engineering in Australia or UK.

Hmmmmm, you really have a fair knowledge of FPSO. I think one of the main criteria for this ranking is by the volume of the vessel's hull size and not necessarily the storage capacity or daily output. Usan is currently managed by Exxon Mobil . Akpo and Bonga are equally very huge Nigeria FPSOs

2. ARMADA OLOMBENDO:
This ship was built in 2016 by Singaporean company Keppel. It is 380 meters long and 58 meters wide according to estimates, this is the largest ship of its type. The ship’s storage capacity is 1.8 million barrels of oil. Daily output is 80,000 barrels. This vessel was rebuilt from the former Armada Super Tanker. It is engaged in oil refining at the Cabaca North and Cabaca southeast fields which are located approximately 350 kilometers north of Luanda. This tanker sails under the flag of the Marshall Islands.


1. EGINA:
The worlds largest oil producing floating plants, it is 330 meters long, 61 meters wide and 34 meters high. It was built by Total in 2017. it has impressive oil production with a total of 208,000 barrels per day and storage capacity of 2.3 million barrels. The ship operates 350 kilometers from the coast of Nigeria and sails under the Nigeria Flag.

The first pic is ARMADA OLOMBENDO and the second is EGINA
source http://advanxis.com/blog-news/news/largest-oil-fpso-in-the-world-nigeria-egina-makes-top-of-the-list

6. MAERSK PEREGRINO:
At 333 meters long and 58 meters wide, built in 2008 and after three years it was transformed into a floating complex for such purposes as oil injection and shipment. It is able to produce 100,000 barrels of oil daily and can store 1.6 million barrels. It operates in the oil fields of Brazil in the oil basin and currently sails under the flag of the Bahamas.

5. LIZA DESTINY:
This tanker was built in 1999 and it is 355 meter long and 58 meters wide, daily oil production is 120,000 barrels and storage capacity is 1.6 million barrels at a distance of about 200 kilometers from the coast of Guyana in staybrock block in the Liza field in which this tanker produces oil. Exxon Mobil affiliate so exploration and production Guyana limited is an operator and owns a 45 stake in staybrock block. To date the ship is under the flag of the Bahamas.

4. PSVM:
With a length of 355 meters wide and width of 57 meters. The daily processing capacity is 157,000 barrels and storage capacity is 1.6 billion barrels. In April 2010 the FPSO was converted from the VLCC expergonia tanker during the conversion, The Sofik external tower mooring system was installed which consists of 12 mooring lines. The mooring of the vessel to the oil field for production and processing was carried out by 12 subsea in May 2012. It is also under the flag of the Bahamas.

3. JOHN AGYEKUM KUFOR:
It was subsequently named after the President of Ghana and built in 1988.It is 333 meters long and 60 meters wide. Its daily refining capacity is 58,000 barrels and its storage capacity each accommodates 1.7 million barrels of oil thanks to this productivity. This ship is able to operate at the Sankofa and Gyanyame fields which are 60 kilometers off the coast of Ghana under the flag of Ghana

The pics below are in order from MAERSK PEREGRINO to JOHN AGYEKUM KUFOR

Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessels, or FPSOs, are offshore production facilities that house both processing equipment and storage for produced hydrocarbons. The basic design of most FPSOs encompasses a ship-shaped vessel, with processing equipment, or topsides, aboard the vessel’s deck and hydrocarbon storage below in the double hull. After processing, an FPSO stores oil or gas before offloading periodically to shuttle tankers or transmitting processed petroleum via pipelines.
Check out the top 10 largest in the world

10. ARMADA KRAKEN:

This was converted from tanker vessel Prisco Alcor which was built in 2007. It is 305 meters long and 50 meters wide, the vessel is equipped with armada kraken floating facility which allows operations on the North sea near the British isles. The ship can carry 800,000 barrels of oil per day as its storage capacity is more than 60,000 barrels, the christening ceremony was held in Singapore at the Keppel shipyard on August 27, 2016.

9. PETROJARL KNARR
This ship was built in South Korea by Samsung for Teekay in 2014. It length is 256 meters and width is 48 meters, this ship has been operating at the Cañar oil field since 2015 and it is scheduled to work until March 2021. Its production capacity is 63,000 barrels per day while storage capacity is 800,000 barrels. It is currently under the flag of the Bahamas

8. GLEN LYON:
It was built in 2015 with a length of 270 meters and width of 52 meters. The vessel is capable of producing a maximum of 130,000 barrels of oil and storing up 1.6 million barrels. Anchored to the seabed at the schiehallion and Royal fields near the British Isles. The ship is also equipped with a tower weighing a total of 10,000 ton. This tower is equipped with devices for connecting 20 mooring lines. At the moment the ship is under the flag of the United Kingdom.

7. ASENG:
It was designed 30 years ago and stands at 330 meters long with a 56 meters width. The ship storage capacity is 1.5 million barrels of oil and condensate. Its daily capcity is an average of 80,000 barrels of oil. It was launched in south korea back in 1988 since then it has been flying the flag of the Bahamas.

The pics below are in order from ARMADA KRAKEN to Aseng FPSO
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Robotic Prosthesis Lets Drummers Play a Three-armed Cyborg Beat
A new robotic prosthesis can augment drummers with an extra arm Georgia Tech
A new robotic prosthesis can augment drummers with an extra arm GEORGIA TECH


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKryPingtww

Drummers get a raw deal. Ringo Starr may the most recognizable man behind the high hats, but he’s still the world’s fourth favorite Beatle. Tommy Lee is widely considered one of the greatest time keepers in rock history, yet most people didn’t know his name until a certain “Baywatch” flavored video hit the internet. Even Dave Grohl, one of the nicest men in music, had to step out from behind the drum kit before he become a certified rock star.

So drumming might not be as glamorous shredding a guitar or singing sweet nothings into a mic. It is pretty difficult, however. There’s a certain kind of physical talent required to kick the pedals, pound the snare and tickle the toms all at the same time, not to mention doing each at a different pace. The good news for drummers is that smart technology might soon make playing percussion a little bit easier.0:10

Engineers at Georgia Tech are developing a prosthetic arm that not only keeps up with, but also complements drummers in real time. The biomechatronic device attaches to a drummer’s shoulder to add a third arm that responds to the music and motions around it. The robot drumming device can also improvise as it plays, and future iterations may eventually know its users so well that it can read brain waves to sense where the music is going next.

Professor Gil Weinberg and a group of students came up with the idea after building a more basic prosthetic drumming arm for an Atlanta musician who lost a limb in an electrocution accident. The device uses a motor to power two drum sticks — one controlled by the user through electromyography muscle sensors and the other with a mind of its own. Check out that earlier prosthesis in action in the video below.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntrlHw6f4E4

The updated version features accelerometers that tell the arm how close it is to the drum set and lets it know when to change angles and reach. The arm also recognizes a drummer’s gestures and senses the speed and style of play to respond accordingly.

“If you have a robotic device that is part of your body, it’s a completely different feeling from working alongside a regular robot,” says Weinberg. “The machine learns how your body moves and can augment and complement your activity. It becomes a part of you.”

The goal is to make the prosthesis act like an actual part of the human player. That effort would take a big step forward if Weinberg & Co. can figure out how to link the robot arm to real human brain activity. They’re currently tinkering with an electroencephalogram (EEG) headband that reads a user’s brain waves. The idea is to detect patterns that would signal the prosthesis before changes in patter and tempo happen. A successful drumming robot could provide the groundwork for other robotic third-arm helpers with medical, military and construction applications, among others. NOW THAT’S INTERESTING The Ludwig Drum Company created and sold the first bass drum pedal in 1909, revolutionizing drumming by freeing up users’ arms to play other percussion instruments.

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Thetea:
This is very detailed.
Make iRobot movie no just come to pass sha
Cause we are doomed

going by the pace of Technological development currently sweeping the length and breadth of our world anything is possible

Thetea:
This is very detailed.
Make iRobot movie no just come to pass sha
Cause we are doomed

Lol, well who knows in the future most of those things we watch in movies may happen in one way or the other

PermSec01:
Nice thread...very educative...some of your reservations bout Robot having an independent think is quite valid.....cos consciousness also breed corruption in human and it won't b different in a machine as well...and theirs will b worst cos some robot will be fit with power equivalent to hundred men.....


To me machine shud stay as machine sincw it sole purpose is to be used as a tool lessen task or carrying out dangerous mission... It doesn't need consciousness....and consciousness is only human thing.... I doubt it will ever b replicated in a machine....

thanks for the read

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Self-recursive improvement refers to the theoretical ability of a machine to examine itself, recognize ways in which it could improve its own design and then either tweak itself or build new and improved versions of machines. Each generation of machines would be smarter and better designed than the generation before. Futurist Ray Kurzweil suggests that machines will become so adept at improving themselves that before long we would enter an age in which technology evolves at a blisteringly fast pace. We would have to redefine reality because it wouldn’t resemble the present at all. He calls this the singularity.

In this world, what happens to humans? In some scenarios, we merge with machines. Artificial and real consciousness become something entirely new. But in other scenarios, the machines come to the conclusion that humans are no longer necessary. At best, the machines ignore us as they continue to build more impressive technology. In the worst case, machines wipe us out either as an act of self-preservation or in revenge.

These scenarios could all be moot — we may never learn the secret to creating an artificial consciousness. It could be that consciousness is fundamentally physiological and that we can’t simulate it artificially. But just in case we do figure it all out, you may want to be a little nicer to your computer.

source: http://advanxis.com/blog-news/tech/could-computers-and-robots-become-conscious-if-so-what-happens-then

It’s not hard to feel empathy for ASIMO even though ASIMO can’t feel anything. Artificial consciousness could give way to serious ethical questions. If machines become self-aware, could they react in a negative way to the situation they’re in? Could machines object to being used as tools? Would they have feelings?

There’s a lot of debate on the subject. Since no one has managed to create an artificially conscious machine, it’s impossible to say what features it will and won’t have. But if machines gain the ability to be self-reflective, it could require us to reconsider the way we think about them. At what point would a machine possess the sort of intelligence and consciousness that would necessitate us bestowing them legal rights? Or would machines remain tools and possibly consider themselves to be slaves? Conscious machines form the basis of several apocalyptic science fiction tales. Movies like “The Matrix” or “The Terminator” envision a world in which machines have subjugated mankind. These scenarios rely on the concept of self-recursive improvement.

Not all philosophers agree upon what is and isn’t consciousness. At best, most agree that consciousness rests in the brain. But we don’t fully understand the mechanisms that provide consciousness. Without this understanding, it may be impossible to endow machines with consciousness. It’s possible to create programs that mimic thought. These programs might give a machine the ability to recognize and respond to patterns. But ultimately, the machine isn’t aware of itself. It’s simply responding to commands.

Neurologists and computer scientists could conceivably create an artificial model of a human brain that might produce consciousness. The problem these scientists face isn’t trivial. Since we don’t have a full understanding of how the brain works, building an artificial version might not be adequate to create actual consciousness.

Despite the challenges, there are teams of engineers and scientists around the world working toward artificial consciousness. It remains to be seen if we’ll ever achieve this goal. But assuming we did find a way to give machines consciousness, what happens then?

[color=#990000]Computer and Robot Consciousness[/color]
Artificial consciousness may never progress further than a simulation of human consciousness

Whether or not computers or robots can gain consciousness isn’t as easy a question as you might think. There is still much we don’t know about human consciousness. While programmers and computer scientists create algorithms that can simulate thinking on a superficial level, cracking the code necessary to give consciousness to a machine remains beyond our grasp.

Part of the problem lies with defining consciousness. Eric Schwitzgebel, professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, suggests that the concept is best explained through examples of what consciousness is and what it isn’t. Schwitzgebel says that vivid sensations are part of consciousness. You could argue that through sensors, robots and computers can experience — or at least detect — stimuli that we would interpret as sensations. But Schwitzgebel also points out other instances of consciousness: inner speech, visual imagery, emotions and dreams are all elements we can experience that machines can’t.

Though computers and robots are more advanced than ever, they're still just tools. They can be useful, particularly for tasks that would either be dangerous to humans or would take too long to complete without computer assistance. But robots and computers are unaware of their own existence and can only perform tasks for which they were programmed.

But what if they could think for themselves? It's a common theme in science fiction. Machines become self-aware, changing the dynamic between man and machine. Could it really happen?

While we're able to make robots that can seriously creep us out like this robot teacher below, we haven't been able to give them consciousness. The advancements we've made in computer science and robotics, two young disciplines, are impressive. Moore's Law is a good example of how quickly things can change. Gordon Moore observed in 1965 that the number of transistors that could fit on a silicon chip an inch (2.54 centimeters) in diameter doubled every year. That's a logarithmic growth pattern. While computer scientists would adjust the observation by lengthening the amount of time it takes before we can cram more transistors onto a chip, we've still shrunk transistors down to the nanoscale.

In robotics, engineers have created machines with multiple points of articulation. Some robots have an array of sensors that can gather information about the environment, allowing the robot to maneuver through a simple obstacle course. Honda's ASIMO robot can climb stairs and run. From manufacturing to military applications, robots are making a big impact

NoFucksToGive:
Kidnappers, which company ?

Post the full details of the company here before you kidnap someone

Read before you leap. do a little search of the @ op or better still do a google search of the mail and please do not forget to come back and apologize

Female corps member with computer knowledge urgently needed by a company in Trans Amadi Port Harcourt.
Interested candidate should send their CV to acecatech@gmail.com

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simplistical:
please can you tell me more about lng project

Get information here:
http://advanxis.com/blog-news/nigeria-lng-train-7-project-timeline-and-all-you-need-to-know

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Electrical Engineer/Technician

The fact that Electricity is the live wire of any modern production system is as discernible as life itself. Electrical Engineers and Technicians are as highly as demanded as there Mechanical engineer counterpart. The Electrical design engineer are particularly needed during the project phase for electrical system design and drawings with relevant design software. During the construction and production phase Electrical technicians with skills such as control panel installation and maintenance are in very high demand. For you to be on the radar for this job you sure have to possess those skillsets.

Other demanded skill set/professional includes Operators. They are very vital for production. crane/forklift operators, scaffolders among others.

Brace up for these skills and position yourself for the year 2022 in the oil and gas sector!

source http://advanxis.com/blog-news/news/top-oil-and-gas-skill-for-2022

Mechanical Engineer/Technician

mechanical system professionals are yet another set of professional that are highly sort after in the oil and gas scheme of things. The design engineers with skills such as PDMS, Solidworks, ceaser II, etc are particularly on a very high demand during theproject phase. The mechanical technician with such skills as wielding and fabrication, hydraulic system, machining, etc. are in very high demand during the construction and production phase. There is no gainsaying that you have to equipped yourself with those skills if you know you want to be ready for the oil and gas drill for the brand new year.

The top of the skills to be on high demand and necessary for you to have high chances of securing a job for the oil and gas frenzy for this year includes but not limited to: Instrumentation and control engineers/Technicians, Mechanical design Engineer/Technician, electrical engineer/technician

Instrument/controls personnel
Instrumentation and control/Automation professionals are currently the most demanded profession in a typical modern oil and gas production platform as well as petrochemicals/refineries. This is because modern production systems are by each day getting more and more automated as a result skyrocketing the demand for Instrumentation and control/Automation professionals. Therefore, it is not a bad idea to be armed with Instrumentation and control/Automation Skills for the auspicious year 2022

2022 is a very promising year for the oil and gas sector as it is the year most oil and gas projects will gain traction after a prolong period of COVID-19 incursion. from our previous article "Nigeria to Kick-start 100 Oil & Gas Projects Between 2021 and 2025" There is no gain saying that 2022 will be a year that will consolidate as well as usher in those numerous oil and gas projects among which are: LNG train 7, Numerous offshore deep water project by various multinational companies, petrochemicals and refining projects among others.

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its on

trigger11:
is this still on

YEAH, ITS ON BUT PROMO IS NO LOGER AVALABLE

Good vision; good mission; awaiting accomplishment!
nice one!

wow

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