A semi-submersible platform is a specialised marine vessel used in offshore roles including as offshore drilling rigs, safety vessels, oil production...
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either bottom-founded or floating platforms, and deepwater mobile offshore drilling units (MODU), including semi-submersibles and drillships. These are capable...
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Look up semi-submersible or semisubmersible in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Semi-submersible may refer to a self-propelled vessel, such as: Heavy-lift...
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A low-profile/semi-submersible naval vessel is a hybrid warship, that combines the properties of a surface ship and submarine by using water ballast to...
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Offshore drilling (section Drilling platforms)
either bottom founded or floating platforms, and deepwater mobile offshore drilling units (MODU) including semi-submersibles or drillships. These are capable...
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Transocean Marianas (category Semi-submersibles)
Transocean Marianas was an Earl & Wright Sedco 700 design semi-submersible platform drilling unit capable of operating in harsh environments and water...
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hotel, is the installation of living quarters on top of rafts or semi-submersible platforms. Flotels are used as hotels on rivers or in harbour areas, or...
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offshore drilling units such as the oil platform, jackup rig, submersible drilling rig, semi-submersible platform and of course drillships. All drillships...
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submersible is an underwater vehicle which needs to be transported and supported by a larger watercraft or platform. This distinguishes submersibles from...
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Petrobras 36 (redirect from P36 Offshore Oil Platform Sinking)
was a semi-submersible oil platform. Prior to its sinking on 20 March 2001, it was the largest in the world. It was operated by Petrobras, a semi-public...
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DCV Balder (category Semi-submersibles)
semi-submersible crane vessel by Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. Balder and sister vessel, Hermod were the world's first semi-submersible...
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Heavy-lift ship (redirect from Semi-submersible heavy-lift ship)
transported by normal ships. There are several types of heavy-lift ships: Semi-submersible ships take on water to allow the load—usually another vessel—to be...
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Offshore concrete structure (category Oil platforms)
or other infrastructures. Semi-submersible marine structures are typically only movable by towing. Semi-submersible platforms have the principal characteristic...
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Atlantis PQ (redirect from Atlantis platform)
Atlantis PQ is a BP and BHP joint venture semi-submersible oil platform on permanent location over the Green Canyon Atlantis Oil Field in deepwater Gulf...
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rigs, including 36 offshore jackup rigs, 11 drillships, and 5 semi-submersible platform drilling rigs. In 2022, the company's largest customer was BP...
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Facility (CPF), the Ichthys Explorer, is the world's largest Semi-submersible platform weighing approximately 120,000 t (120,000 long tons) and with...
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Thunder Horse PDQ (redirect from Thunder Horse (oil platform))
Thunder Horse PDQ is a BP plc and ExxonMobil joint venture semi-submersible oil platform on location over the Mississippi Canyon Thunder Horse Oil Field...
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compliance with the limits set by the law. Semi-submersible platform Scarabeo 8 Semi-submersible platform Scarabeo 9 Drillship Saipem 10000 Drillship...
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Float (nautical) (section Anchored platform)
(lock gate) Navy lighterage pontoons Outrigger Raft Rhino ferry Semi-submersible platform The Cruising Multihull. 978-0070698680: International Marine/Ragged...
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Ocean Ranger (category Semi-submersibles)
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...
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for his planned expedition. Another proposal involved using a semi-submersible platform mounted with cranes, resting on two watertight supertankers, that...
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lowered onto the sea floor for offshore drilling activities. The submersible drilling platform is supported on large pontoon-like structures. These pontoons...
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company operates 24 drilling rigs including eight drillships, four semi-submersible platforms, and 12 jackup rigs. In 2020, 26.6% of revenues were from ExxonMobil...
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include: fixed platforms, compliant towers, semi-submersible platforms, jack-up installations, floating production systems, tension-leg platforms, gravity-based...
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Moon pool (category Oil platforms)
of an open moon pool above the waterline, in a catamaran or a semi-submersible platform An open moon pool at the waterline, in a ship or floating structure...
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000 m3/d) of gas. The Atlantis field has been developed with a semi-submersible production platform, Atlantis PQ, designed by GVA Consultants and built by Daewoo...
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Kincardineshire. Each of the turbines is mounted on a triangular floating semi-submersible platform, the WindFloat® designed by Principle Power. These have three...
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a semi-submersible 'flotel' providing living quarters for offshore workers. By 1978 additional accommodation blocks had been added to the platform, so...
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Singapore, and Norway. It operates 15 drilling rigs including 11 semi-submersible platforms and 4 drillships. In September 2024, Noble Corporation completed...
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RP FLIP (redirect from FLoating Instrument Platform)
R/P FLIP (floating instrument platform) is a semi-submersible open ocean research platform that was owned by the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) and...
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