ABB Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals The First Floating Drilling Vessels u1932 a mobile submersible rig was first used. The Texas Company’s rig McBride. Planned to drill on inland water while floating it was so loaded down with supplies it wound up sitting on bottom which subsequently was the way it was used from then on.
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ABB Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals The First Floating Drilling Vessels uThe Texas Company’s rig the Giliasso was subsequently built as the first intentionally submersible drilling barge.
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ABB Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals The First Floating Drilling Vessels uAlso in 1932 the first tender systems were used. A tender has the derrick and drilling platform set onto a permanent production platform with the pipe rack, mud pumps, mud handling facilties, crew quarters, and storage supplied from a floating vessel moored to the platform.
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ABB Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals The First Floating Drilling Vessels uIn 1953 the first of the drillships emerged. The CUSS group’s Global Marine SUBMAREX, an ex-naval patrol craft converted to drill core holes to a depth of 3,000’off the California coast. uIn 1955 a flat bottomed naval barge was converted to a drilling barge to become the SoCal Western Explorer, subsequently the Glomar Western Explorer.
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ABB Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals The First Floating Drilling Vessels uIn 1956 the CUSS I became the first full scale drillship. uIn 1961 the CUSS I became the first dynamically positioned vessel using outboard motors it cored to a depth of 600’in 12,000 feet of water. uBy 1988 over 20 dynamically positioned drilling vessels were operational.
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ABB Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals The First Floating Drilling Vessels uThe GLOMAR CHALLENGER became the first custom built dynamically positioned drilling vessel fully operational in 1968. uIn the 1970s a wide range of drilling vessels were developed for both static and dynamic operations and including drillships and the first semi- submersible rigs.
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ABB Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals Moored drillship
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ABB Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals Moored semi-submersible
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ABB Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals Vessel mooring system
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ABB Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals Semi-submersible rig with Guideline Drilling System
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ABB Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals Dynamically Positioned Drillship with Guidelineless Drilling System
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ABB Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals Dynamically positioned drillship underway
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ABB Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals Top 3 Most Recent Water Depth Drilling Records uShell – Water Depth 6,952’ – Hyena Project – Baltimore Canyon - GOM – Discoverer Seven Seas – May 1984
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uShell – Water Depth 7,520’ – Coulomb Project – Mississippi Canyon Block 657 - GOM – Discoverer Seven Seas – November 1987
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ABB Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals Top 3 Most Recent Water Depth Drilling Records uShell – Water Depth 7,612 – Baha Project – Alaminos Canyon Block 600 - GOM – Discoverer 534 – April 1996