Not such a long time ago, the Oil & Gas sectors were ruling the waves of success whereby domestic and off shore export market demands appeared to far out-weigh the prospect of actual supply. Over recent years BT Resource Logistics have been participating in supporting the industry with the constant movement of international rigs into and out of Australia.
It seems only like yesterday when Rig 970 arrived into the Port Adelaide wharf on the Industrial Dart. This was a medium sized land based rig requiring multiple road train combinations, OOG extendable trailers, a range of one way tow units and multiple heavy haulage floats to get this project out of the Port Adelaide precinct to Moomba, or more specifically into the Big Lake Project.
The Industrial Dart arrived in dock and once cleared opened her huge holds whereby the ship’s derricks (cranes) started the long process of discharging the vessel piece by piece. The BT Resource Logistics Team coordinated with the ship’s master, stevedores, owners and lease operators of the inbound Rig 970, even with our own people to ensure that “under ships hook” arrangements were delivered onto the appropriate type of equipment to minimise the requirement for on wharf laydown usage.
Naturally, the vessel discharged 24 hours per day until all cargo was cleared from her holds, thereby demanding three shift round-the-clock operations on wharf by the BT load masters, drivers, contractors and associated securing crews all MSIC clearances and Flinders Ports accreditation. In-gauge consolidations were deployed as quickly as they were coming off the vessel, in order to meet the tight delivery requirements so that Rig 970 could be quickly reconstructed onsite at Big Lake—a bit like inline sequencing in the automotive manufacturing process.
This represented part of the massive expansion to the Big Lake Project, which saw a huge fleet operation of ODOM delivery direct to the Cooper Basin, SA. The dedicated team of metropolitan and intrastate OD escorts, along with our onsite BT load masters and drivers, all worked in complete unison to ensure that the discharge of the Industrial Dart and Rig 970 consolidations were all performed by the BT specific materials experts in terms of load restraints and overall safety to ensure they hit the road on time.
The BT Resource Logistics Team ensures that the level of dedication and commitment to these important delivery programs fits within our core business model “The Can Do People”, as all these journeys required detailed planning on the part of our national operations and compliance teams internally with exposure externally to ensure a range of OSOM floats could be utilised where legally possible and physically practical, to deliver the best outcomes to our client.
The precision required by our Resource Logistics Teams to ensure that the vessel discharges while “under the ships hooks” is performed efficiently, safely and cost effectively on wharf, to the linehaul operations ensuring correctly consolidated vehicles, delivered to site safely and on-time and the heavy haulage of these large oversize, over-mass components with the same exacting delivery requirements along the Strzelecki Track. Congratulations to our drivers, operations and compliance teams for a job well done. Resource projects like this don’t just happen without huge amounts of preplanning; as a reward for our efforts BT make them appear to be quite simple in the effective delivery of our pursuit to ensure the on-time delivery of materials to the Resources Sector.
At BT Resource Logistics we remain focused on the future of the Oil & Gas sector given the current economic climate, and while we are busy demobing Rigs from many remote regions—remember that this is a cycle, this downward trend is just part of that cycle.
Again, well done to the our drivers, operations and compliance teams for the resource import tasks that we perform regularly in all ports across Australia—great work, team.
