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Offshore Drilling Rigs

There are two main types of offshore drilling rigs: floating rigs and bottom-supported units. Floating rigs include semi-submersibles and drill ships, while bottom-supported units include jackups, platforms, and submersibles. Semi-submersibles are stable floating structures that drill holes then move to the next location. Platforms are immobile structures built from concrete or steel resting on the seabed that can drill further wells and produce hydrocarbons. Jackups are mobile drilling rigs with long legs that lower and raise the rig, operating in waters up to 500 feet deep.

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Offshore Drilling Rigs

There are two main types of offshore drilling rigs: floating rigs and bottom-supported units. Floating rigs include semi-submersibles and drill ships, while bottom-supported units include jackups, platforms, and submersibles. Semi-submersibles are stable floating structures that drill holes then move to the next location. Platforms are immobile structures built from concrete or steel resting on the seabed that can drill further wells and produce hydrocarbons. Jackups are mobile drilling rigs with long legs that lower and raise the rig, operating in waters up to 500 feet deep.

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Offshore Drilling Rigs

Offshore Drilling Rigs


Two main types:
• floating
• bottom-supported unit

• Floating unit include: semisubmersible (bottle-


type, column stabilized), barge rig and drill ship.
• Bottom-supported unit include: submersible
(posted barges, bottle-type submersibles, arctic
submersibles), jackups and platforms
(1). Semi Submersible
• This floating drilling unit has columns when flooded
with seawater, cause the structure submerge to a
predetermined depth.
• Although it is moved by wave action, it sits low with a
large part of its structure under water combined with
eight huge mooring anchors, make it a very stable
installation.
• This type of rig drills a hole in the seabed then it moves
to the next location.
• With advancing technology some semi submersibles
can drill in water depths over five thousand feet.
(2). Platform

• This immobile structure can be built from


concrete or steel and rests on the seabed.
• When oil or gas is located a platform may be
constructed to drill further wells at that site
and also to produce the hydrocarbon.
Steel Jacket Platform

• Most common type of platform


• Consist of the jacket, a tall vertical section
made of tubular steel members.
• Supported by piles driven into the seabed.
• Additional sections on top of the jacket
provide space for drilling rig, crew quarters,
and other equipments
Concrete Gravity Platform

• Build from steel reinforced


concrete
• Tall caissons, or column are
the dominant feature of this
platform.
• Sometime, special concrete
cylinder are fixed at the base
of the caissons on the sea
floor to store crude oil.
Steel-Caisson Platform Compliant Platform
• Specifically for use in cold • Using rigid platform in
area – where fast-moving water much over 1000
tidal currents carry pack feet depth is not practical
of ice that can destroy – very much expensive to
steel-jacket. build.
• In deep water, most
companies use compliant
• The caissons are made of platform, which contain
two layers of thick steel fewer steel parts and are
to prevent ice damage. lighter than rigid steel-
jacket.
• Guyed-tower platform and
tension-leg platform.
Guyed tower platform Tension Leg Platform (TLP)
(3). Jack up

• This is a mobile drilling rig, different from the


semi submersible. Instead of floating over its
drilling location the Jackup has long leg
structures, which it lowers to and into the seabed
raising the rig out of the water.
• The obvious limitation with this type of
installation is the depth of water it can operate in.
• The maximum being five hundred feet.
(4). Drill Ship

• As the name suggests this is a ship shaped


drilling vessel.
• Unlike the semi submersible and the Jackup, it
does not require tugboats to tow it to
location.
• Although they are not as stable as semi
submersibles they also drill in very deep
waters.
5. FPSO

• Floating Production, Storage and Offshore


Loading
• They are attached to a seabed well head and they
produce and store the oil until another tanker
takes it from them.
• They are used to produce from small wells where
it would be too expensive to build a platform.

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