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Drilling

Dutch develop dual MPT for new drillships to be placed about fve meters above Joop Roodenburg, chief executive

European editor deck level, lowering the overall center of Huisman, said feedback had been

Elaine Maslin went to of gravity, increasing stability, reduc- good, with strong uptime. Of the over- visit Huisman’s yard in ing vessel size, and therefore reducing all downtime less than 2% was attrib- costs while increasing deck space. uted to Huisman equipment, he said.

Schiedam, Netherlands, as

The latest result, vessel number two, The HuisDrill design is a DP3 drill- the fnishing touches were of this work will soon start its voyage ship. It can conduct drilling operations being carried out on the to offshore Benin, Africa, to drill for in water depths up to 12,000ft deep, supermajor Shell. install Xmas trees, and perform well

Noble Globetrotter II.

It is the 189m long, 32m wide Noble testing. hen offshore lifting, pipelay and Globetrotter II (GT2), the second of two The GTs have two ROVs, a service drilling frm Huisman decided to Huisman-designed drillships based speed of 12kts, 54,000 tons displace-

W redesign the traditional derrick tower on the HuisDrill 12000 design built for ment, 20,000 ton payload, and accom- on mobile drilling units, it decided to Noble Drilling and both on contract to modation for 180 in single and twin go back to basics—and redesign the Shell. cabins. Power is from eight 4.6MW whole unit. The Globetrotter I (GT1), commis- engines, with six 3.7MW thrusters.

Huisman has come up with a vessel sioned in 2011, went into service in Central to the HuisDrill is the layout using a dual, multipurpose 2012 and has been drilling for Shell in drilling tower, allowing the drill foor the Gulf of Mexico.

The at Schiedam. Noble Globetrotter II

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