Here is one of the most fascinating videos presented by Richard Hammond - it belongs to the Engineering Connections series and is dedicated to the extremely large LNG carriers. This place is one of the most interesting and strangest places on the planet - it is just inside of a huge technically sophisticated machine - it is a tanker with the cargo on board that is capable of powering the whole London - just imagine it - for a week, a cargo equivalence to energy to the fifty five nuclear bombs.

This enormously large vessel is carrying LNG, i.e. liquefied natural gas, in enormous amounts, millions of litres of the stuff - this cargo turns into highly flammable gas at the normal room temperature and that is the reason why people want it - they can use this gas for various purposes, including cooking and heating their homes. Creating a good, safe and effective technology to transport such sort of cargo by sea is really very complex engineering task...

We all know that the world of today is absolutely addicted to the oil. However, the current situation is that all the "easy pockets" have already been developed and are actually gone; that is the main reason why people have to find the new sources. And, the most intensive battle is taking place in Alaska, which is considered to be a source of more than fifteen percent of the whole America's domestic production.

Subject area is also treated as a home for the largest wild-life preserve of the American nation - ANWR, standing for the Arctic National Wild-life Refuge, where numerous exploration companies are pushing to drill today. This film is an extremely interesting one and is highly recommended to all people with the interest in oil exploration and production. They will travel back millions of years in order to see and have a clear picture of how the oil appeared; they will also look at the future, asking how far we will go to find every remaining barrel of oil and at what costs.

Unfortunately, some of the people keep thinking that the cheap exploration and production of the oil is still there. However, that is not the case anymore, and this is what the authors of this brilliant insight into the history of oil are trying to demonstrate and explain. Just take your time watching this episode of Explorer and you find it very useful and interesting...

This video is in fact the recording of the presentation developed by ProMat under the sponsorship of Siemens Company in Berlin, Germany. The presentation is about the main trends in the field of marine ports and logistics. Presented by the recognized experts, this record may be used as an excellent lesson providing necessary insight to the modern ports and marine logistics in general.

The agenda of the presentation covers the basic types of the marine ports, processes, technologies and the main KPIs used when evaluating their efficiency, stakeholder models and major trends in the global maritime container industry. The shippers and top marine ports of the world have been deal with in separate sections. The author has also addressed the modern container traffic and utilization, development of the maritime ports, global trade flows, Panama Canal issues and container ships in general.

Particular attention has been paid to the American ports and share of routes to the United States maritime ports. The file will be helpful when used as a supplementary training material for the students; it will also be useful for the people willing to be kept up-to-date with all happenings in maritime industry and global logistics.

Ninety percent of all goods worldwide are transported by sea. Shipping is the essential part of global economy and the harbors are working hard. Like the port of Rotterdam, Europe’s largest logistics and industrial hub. Global population growth will drive up traffic on the world’s seaways by a factor of four by the year 2050. If we are not careful then the pollution will increase too. Without action, our oceans are becoming a plastic soup.

Corals are dying and too much oil is ending up in the sea, sometimes as a result of illegal discharges. Ignorance and negligence are severely disrupting the delicate balance of nature. But the damage is being addressed; laws and guidelines are constantly being adopted, sailors, ship owners, ports and waste reception facilities – all the parties involved are becoming increasingly aware of their responsibility.

The port of Rotterdam is no exception. Here, the challenges to receive and handle ships as efficiently as possible to continuously improve the ways the wastes are collected and processed. Much of the efforts go to developing new recycling methods, for waste does not belong to the sea. The port of Rotterdam authority is committed to the clean sea – a policy that is bearing fruit.

This short video was officially released by Viking, the world recognized manufacturer of the shipboard lifesaving appliances. It is devoted to the cradle mounted inflatable liferafts, both those that require a launching davit, and the throw-overboard ones. The instructions show step by step procedure that needs to be followed in order to launch the subject appliance in a safe and fast manner, starting from the very beginning.

The instructions contained in the video are exceptionally clear and easy to follow, making the process understandable even to the absolute beginner. While the first part of the video addresses the process involving the launching davit, its second half is dealing with the liferafts that are simply thrown overboard, thus not requiring any of the launching appliance.

It is absolutely needless to say that the sound knowledge of the launching procedure is critically important to all crew members not limited to the officers since it can eventually save someone’s life in case of an emergency. It is necessary for all crew members to watch this short instructional video as part of their shipboard training in connection with the use of the lifesaving equipment.

Here is an extremely interesting and informative video animation prepared to tell all interested people about the drilling vessel Chikyu which is the first science vessel in the world to be equipped with the riser equipment. The vessel is actually capable of drilling at incredible depths of the sea, i.e. deeper that any other science drilling vessel of today.

The vessel has participate in several international research and discovery programs. Moreover, the vessel took part in the famous scientific investigations carried out of the Nankai Trough, subject activities were connected with the seismic researches.

The animation will demonstrate you all features of this amazing vessel. It will also be interesting to the people who want to know more about the offshore drilling industry in general.

As we all know, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig was originally stationed in the Mexican Gulf, namely on the Macondo well. Nearly all rig crew members were finishing their work on a deep water exploratory well, when a series of events combinated in a blowout of the well. The explosions followed by fire on the rig, the tragic loss of eleven lives, and number of very serious injuries, and, after all, one of the largest oil spills ever seen...

This video is dedicated to that world famous disaster and to the investigation which was undertaken with the ultimate goal to find out the reasons of the catastrophe, analyze them and make all effort to prevent such tragic disasters in the future. Have a look and get the clear picture of why the safety precautions shall always be taken and what potential consequences this may have.

The authors of this short training video are inviting you to have a look at the largest jack-up offshore unit in the world. This video is intended to guide the interested persons to explore this gigantic structure. Of course and first of all this video will be of great interest to the people directly engaged in offshore engineering and various activities.

They will be able to compare the offshore units they work on with this fantastic unit. Though the film is very short, the authors have presented the material in a very concentrated manner and it means that every single second of it will be interesting.

It will be interesting not only to the offshore industry professionals but also to the other people who like engineering structures and want to know how they are constructed and how they operate.