December 2004
Special Report
Rig floor equipment
A review of recently applied rig floor equipment, new rig designs and tables of key operating data
Rig and Rig Floor TechnologyA review of recently applied rig floor equipment, new rig designs and tables of key operating dataThis feature describes drilling rig innovations within three sections of technical descriptions including illustrations of the equipment or new rig presented. A fourth section presents tables of present offshore rigs capable of operating in three selected categories of rig fleet descriptions. The contents of the four sections are as follows:
Information for the above equipment and rig data was supplied directly by service/supply companies offering the rig floor innovations and drilling contractors operating or using the various new rig designs. Information for the tables was supplied from Rigzone.com’s new RigLogix mobile offshore rig database. |
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