PORT ANGELES — Hundreds of visitors to Arts in Action as well as many more looking out onto Port Angeles Harbor from the hills saw an unusual sight this morning.
A giant blue industrial-looking rig with two towers at about a 30-degree angle was brought into the harbor on a giant Crowley barge, then disappeared west down the Strait of Juan de Fuca later in the morning.
What was it?
Giant military guns?
Missile launchers?
Oil derricks?
Bingo! A the large barge was carrying oil-drilling equipment to Alaska.
Technically, it’s carrying only sections of an oil-drilling platforms to Alaska from Vancouver, Wash.
Crowley Maritime Corp. is moving the rig sections, which are headed to Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay. JH Kelly of Vancouver was part of a construction team building what the company says will be the most advanced mobile drill rig in the Alaska North Slope. This work over rig is owned and operated by Doyon Drilling and leased to BP LLC.
To see a rendering of the components under construction (and painted yellow), click here (you need Adobe Acrobat Reader): www.jhkelly.com/pdf/projects/doyon%20drilling%20modules.pdf
