Oil & gas infrastructure (Score 1)

I work for a company that designs offshore oil & gas platforms. There is an increasing number of floating, semi-mobile platforms out there, and some of them are reaching end of field life in the next 5 years or so.

Maybe someone with some (fairly serious!) capital could use something like an old platform, FPSO, etc. Power generation (large amounts of), accomodation, and so on are already there, as well as communications hardware. I know for a fact that an FPSO in the Timor sea that we built has guys sitting out there surfing the net right now!

Just a thought .... actually, maybe someone could use the same technology we use for FPSO's (sorry, floating production, storage & offtake) and convert an old tanker? No point in solving the same problems twice.