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Condition monitoring calls for drilling contractor, OEM collaboration

Posted on 31 January 2012 in News, The Efficient Rig

Evaluation and recertification programs for equipment and systems are plentiful, but offshore contractors are looking…

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From passive to proactive, condition monitoring gives rig operators advance warning of failures

Posted on 31 January 2012 in News, The Efficient Rig

As rigs are increasingly deployed to remote locations and equipped with complex electronic engines, the risks of…

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Keppel AmFELS to build new semi from existing hull for Diamond Offshore

Posted on 11 January 2012 in News, The Efficient Rig, The Offshore Frontier

Diamond Offshore has contracted Keppel AmFELS to construct and upgrade a moored semisubmersible…

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Xtreme Drilling introduces 23,500-ft capable land coiled-tubing well intervention unit

Posted on 09 January 2012 in Completing the Well, News, Onshore Advances, The Efficient Rig

Xtreme Drilling and Coil Services has unveiled the XSR200, a land coiled-tubing well intervention unit…

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KCA DEUTAG to deploy highly automated T-700 for NAM in Holland

Posted on 06 January 2012 in News, Onshore Advances, The Efficient Rig

KCA DEUTAG recently commissioned its new highly automated, small-footprint T-700 Heavy Land Rig (HLR)…

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Optimizing ROP through automation

Posted on 21 September 2011 in 2011, September/October, The Efficient Rig

Increasing the rate of penetration without detrimentally affecting hole quality or well placement can help to reduce drilling costs, especially on rigs with a…

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Dual BOPs: When one just isn’t enough

Posted on 21 September 2011 in 2011, Features, September/October, The Efficient Rig

On 1 June Rowan Companies announced it had ordered the first two ultra-deepwater drillships in the company’s history, to be built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea. These 12,000-ft capable vessels will each be equipped…

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Rig mobility on the fast track

Posted on 21 September 2011 in 2011, Features, September/October, The Efficient Rig

Rig manufacturers are expanding the operating and mobility features of the industry’s rigs to a new level of sophistication – the highly or ultra-mobile rig …

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HIL merges risk-free testing, virtual drilling

Posted on 21 September 2011 in 2011, September/October, The Efficient Rig

The devil is in the details. For today’s state-of-the-art rigs and increasingly automated drilling equipment, that translates to the software…

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Shedding light on electrical simplicity

Posted on 21 September 2011 in 2011, September/October, The Efficient Rig

Simpler power distribution systems are being cited as the reason for a reduction in blackout scenarios aboard deepwater rigs. Isolated at sea, deepwater drillships …

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