A drilling rig is an integrated system that drills wells, such as oil or water wells, or holes for piling and other construction purposes, into the earth's...
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floating semi-submersible drilling unit—a fifth-generation, ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, column-stabilized drilling rig owned by Transocean and...
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Deepwater Horizon (redirect from Deepwater horizon drilling rig)
semi-submersible offshore drilling rig owned by Transocean and operated by the BP company. On April 20, 2010, while drilling in the Gulf of Mexico at the...
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Drilling Unit (MODU) is generally used for all offshore drilling rigs that can be moved from location to location. The first offshore mobile drilling...
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Oil platform (redirect from Offshore drilling rig)
take place. These include bottom-founded drilling rigs (jackup barges and swamp barges), combined drilling and production facilities, either bottom-founded...
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the term is used to describe drilling activities on the continental shelf, though the term can also be applied to drilling in lakes, inshore waters and...
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existence. The total number of jackup drilling rigs in operation numbered about 540 at the end of 2013. The tallest jackup rig built to date is the Noble Lloyd...
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onshore drilling rig. Offshore drilling rigs have similar elements, but are configured with a number of different drilling systems to suit drilling in the...
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Byford Dolphin (redirect from Deep Sea Driller)
semi-submersible, column-stabilised drilling rig operated by Dolphin Drilling, a Fred Olsen Energy subsidiary. It drilled seasonally for various companies...
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An oil rig is any kind of apparatus constructed for oil drilling. Kinds of oil rig include: Drilling rig, an apparatus for on-land oil drilling Drillship...
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