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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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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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21 February 2012
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