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World’s biggest drilling rig will head north
“We have an ice laboratory in Finland,” Gary Mandel related from his chair on the Arctic Energy Developments panel, at OTC in Houston, Wednesday.
That’s one of the latest developments pushing new arctic technologies for recovering oil and gas from the harshest areas on the planet.
Mandel works at Aker Solutions, which has won projects like Ormen Lange, Snoehvit, Kashagan epf, and Sakhalin II. In that the Arctic is at the top of the list for virgin oil fields, his organization is pursuing and helping develop technology to deal with the harshest environments.
(The next energy “hot” spots on earth are, in order, the top five, from the hottest: the Arctic, Brazil, West Africa, Iraq, and East Africa.)
Ice management has to do with the tracking of icebergs that might damage oil extraction equipment and modeling and simulating ice-flow movements in the effort to avoid infrastructure loss. Mandel’s outfit works at this too.
They are building and are about to launch the biggest oil-drilling rig in the world. It’s green, it’s automated, and its workspace is even climatized. They are constructing it in the Middle East.
It’s a semi submersible drilling platform for ultra deepwater and harsh environments.
The new rig is not only the worlds biggest, it is the most advanced drilling semi. It has features that make it particularly well suited for drilling under extreme conditions, such as ultra deep waters, hostile surroundings, arctic waters, and great distances from existing infrastructures.
The rig will be able to drill and complete wells in water depths ranging from 100 to 3000 meters even in such harsh environments.
– Nicholas Sheble
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World’s biggest drilling rig will head north
“We have an ice laboratory in Finland,” Gary Mandel related from his chair on the Arctic Energy Developments panel, at OTC in Houston, Wednesday.
That’s one of the latest developments pushing new arctic technologies for recovering oil and gas from the harshest areas on the planet.
Mandel works at Aker Solutions, which has won projects like Ormen Lange, Snoehvit, Kashagan epf, and Sakhalin II. In that the Arctic is at the top of the list for virgin oil fields, his organization is pursuing and helping develop technology to deal with the harshest environments.
(The next energy “hot” spots on earth are, in order, the top five, from the hottest: the Arctic, Brazil, West Africa, Iraq, and East Africa.)
Ice management has to do with the tracking of icebergs that might damage oil extraction equipment and modeling and simulating ice-flow movements in the effort to avoid infrastructure loss. Mandel’s outfit works at this too.
They are building and are about to launch the biggest oil-drilling rig in the world. It’s green, it’s automated, and its workspace is even climatized. They are constructing it in the Middle East.
It’s a semi submersible drilling platform for ultra deepwater and harsh environments.
The new rig is not only the worlds biggest, it is the most advanced drilling semi. It has features that make it particularly well suited for drilling under extreme conditions, such as ultra deep waters, hostile surroundings, arctic waters, and great distances from existing infrastructures.
The rig will be able to drill and complete wells in water depths ranging from 100 to 3000 meters even in such harsh environments.
– Nicholas Sheble