Vessel floated to site and lowered onto the seabed for drilling
A submersible drilling rig is a marine vessel design that can be floated to location and lowered onto the sea floor for offshore drilling activities.[1]
several formats, depending on the water depth: Jackup rigSubmersibledrillingrig Semi-submersible platform Drillship Notable offshore fields include:...
dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drillingrig owned by Transocean and operated by BP. On 20 April 2010, while drilling at the Macondo Prospect...
Dolphin was a semi-submersible, column-stabilised drillingrig operated by Dolphin Drilling, a Fred Olsen Energy subsidiary. It drilled seasonally for various...
different types of offshore drilling units such as the oil platform, jackup rig, submersibledrillingrig, semi-submersible platform and of course drillships...
Dolphin Drilling Holdings Limited is an offshore drillingrig company headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom with its main subsidiary Dolphin...
Deepwater drilling, or deep well drilling, is the process of creating holes in the Earth's crust using a drillingrig for oil extraction under the deep...
unexpected observation in 1961. Blue Water Drilling Company owned and operated the four-column submersible Blue Water Rig No.1 in the Gulf of Mexico for Shell...
crew Semi-submersible – type of vessel which can partially submergePages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback Submersibledrillingrig – Vessel...
Ixtoc 1 was an exploratory oil well being drilled by the semi-submersibledrillingrig Sedco 135 in the Bay of Campeche of the Gulf of Mexico, about 100 km...
Maersk Drilling, also known as The Drilling Company of 1972 A/S, was the drilling-rig operator of Maersk. It was based in Lyngby, Denmark. Established...
Scarabeo 8 is an ultra deepwater 6th generation semi-submersibledrillingrig. It is owned and operated by Saipem. The vessel is registered in Nassau,...
and constructed the first purpose-built V-shaped semi-submersibledrillingrig, Ocean Driller, delivered in 1963. In 1982, Ocean Ranger, one of the company's...
Development Driller III is a fifth generation, Vanuatu-flagged dynamic positioning semi-submersible ultra-deepwater drillingrig owned by Transocean and...
GSF Development Driller II is a fifth generation, Vanuatu-flagged dynamic positioning semi-submersible ultra-deepwater drillingrig owned and operated...
Scarabeo 9 is a Frigstad D90-type ultra deepwater 6th generation semi-submersibledrillingrig. It is owned and operated by Saipem. It was named by Anna Tatka...
Transocean Ltd. is an American drilling company. It is the world's largest offshore drilling contractor based on revenue and is based in Vernier, Switzerland...
Ocean Rig UDW Inc. was an operator of semi-submersible oil platforms and underwater drillships and was based in Athens. In 2018, the company was acquired...
from another field. The discovery well 211/26-1 was drilled in 1971 by the semi-submersibledrillingrig "Staflo". This was a major surprise at the time as...
Ocean Ranger was a semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit that sank in Canadian waters on 15 February 1982. It was drilling an exploration well on...
fleet than other type of mobile offshore drillingrig. Other types of offshore rigs include semi-submersibles (which float on pontoon-like structures)...
Transocean Marianas was an Earl & Wright Sedco 700 design semi-submersible platform drilling unit capable of operating in harsh environments and water depths...
will be further utilized for the building of an offshore semi-submersibledrillingrig for Orion Group. List of largest Chinese companies List of largest...
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