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A jackup oil rig. A jackup rig or a self-elevating unit is a type of mobile platform that consists of a buoyant hull fitted with a number of movable legs, capable of raising its hull over the surface of the sea. The buoyant hull enables transportation of the unit and all attached machinery to a desired location.
Maersk Convincer won the Jack-up rig of the year in 2019 outstanding contributions. [4] However, Maersk Drilling sought to consolidate its drilling operations in the North Sea in 2022 and sold Maersk Convincer to ADES in April.
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Jackup rigs in Longkou, China. Jack-up Mobile Drilling Units (or jack-ups), as the name suggests, are rigs that can be jacked up above the sea using legs that can be lowered, much like jacks. These MODUs (Mobile Offshore Drilling Units) are typically used in water depths up to 120 metres (390 ft), although some designs can go to 170 m (560 ft ...
Kolskaya was an independent leg cantilever type jack-up rig. [2] It was 69 metres (226 ft) long and 80 metres (260 ft) wide, and could accommodate up to 102 people. [3] Its rated water depth for operations was 328 feet (100 m). Its drilling depth was 21,325 feet (6,500 m). [2]
Rack Phase Difference (RPD) is a difference in the elevation between rack teeth of the chords of any single leg of a jackup rig with open truss-type legs. This type of jackup vessel operates with a rack and pinion drive system, as opposed to the pin-hole system found on jackups rigs with tubular legs. The legs are mostly triangular though some ...
Offshore drilling rigs have similar elements, but are configured with a number of different drilling systems to suit drilling in the marine environment. The equipment associated with a rig is to some extent dependent on the type of rig but typically includes at least some of the items listed below.
Tender assisted rigs are an existing type of development drilling, workover or plug and abandonment rig (same "family" as jack up rig, semi-submersible or drillship).). However, it is the only design that can operate in both shallow and deepwater (from 20 to 2,000 metres, 66 to 6,5