Pain!
Yesterday was the annual football match between the students and the staff, in Hyde Park. We lost 10-6, a result that of course shows that football is an unpredictable game... I haven't played football for a while (or any other sports), so 2*45 minutes in 25 degrees celsius, burning sun and 0.5 litres of water proved to be a tough challenge. Today I'm red as a lobster, and my body hurts as if it has been in a tumble dryer. The pain, the pain!
I've got some pictures, and I will post them soon. After the match we went to a cafè called Lido, which lies on the south side of the Serpentine in Hyde Park. Here we sat and had a couple of beers and a nice evening in total. Great weather, great people, great beer and great conversation. Afterwards we walked through the park to Marble Arch.
But the pain from yesterday's activities were relieved by a message from the school. Previously I wrote about a business plan we have been making, where we will be purchasing two single hull VLCCs and converting them to FPSOs. There were 30 groups in total, and all thirty groups presented their plans. The best four groups would go to a final where professionals from City along with professors from the business school would pick a winner. It appears that our plan was so good that we are one of four finalists in the Moore Stephens Business Plan Competition... GREAT!
I've got some pictures, and I will post them soon. After the match we went to a cafè called Lido, which lies on the south side of the Serpentine in Hyde Park. Here we sat and had a couple of beers and a nice evening in total. Great weather, great people, great beer and great conversation. Afterwards we walked through the park to Marble Arch.
But the pain from yesterday's activities were relieved by a message from the school. Previously I wrote about a business plan we have been making, where we will be purchasing two single hull VLCCs and converting them to FPSOs. There were 30 groups in total, and all thirty groups presented their plans. The best four groups would go to a final where professionals from City along with professors from the business school would pick a winner. It appears that our plan was so good that we are one of four finalists in the Moore Stephens Business Plan Competition... GREAT!
posted by Pandaen at
4.6.06
4 Comments:
Hey! Great to hear you are playing football agian!
By the way; what does VLCC and FPSO mean? (argh.. den gemene hob...)
Have fun!
Cheers
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Ragge, at 4:56 pm
Det var godt du spurte Ragge så slapp eg... :-) Ellers så får eg vel gratulera med å bli plukt ut blant dei 4. Som tidligare nevnt hadde eg vært passe vettskremt hvis eg skulle holdt foredrag for eliten i city, men kjenne eg deg rett så takle nok du det litt bedre enn eg hadde gjort... :-)
Lykke te med smerten!
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Anonymous, at 9:31 am
An FPSO is a Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessel. Examples in the North Sea Petrojarl and Asgard and a local example is the beast currently occupying the dry dock at Vetco Abel Haugesund...
It is sort of a floating production ship (not more refined production than an oil platform), but in addition to a platform it has storage capacity.
Old VLCCs (Very Large Crude Carriers, oil tankers with carriage capacity of 2,000,000 barrels of oil and more) are excellent for conversion to FPSOs. One reason is that single hull VLCCs must be phased out before 2010 due to IMO (International Maritime Organisation) regulations.
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Pandaen, at 1:03 pm
Cool, thanks!
OK, FPSO I should have known, but the other one was kind of difficult to guess.
HAd a look at the big thing at Vetco Aibel some weeks ago. Nice.
Have a good one now :-)
Cheers
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Ragge, at 7:51 am
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