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regIStratIoN +47 22 94 75 60 / 61 still being completed in Singapore. [email protected] www.tekna.no/intconf “Together we constructed this drillship,” said Roodenburg. “We used what we had learned on the semis and then worked the ship around it. We always start from a white sheet of paper; that is what we do.”

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Key has been challenging the handling principles and low- ering the drilling foor. “Lowering the foor gives you much more payload capacity, at 20,000 tons on HuisDrill compared to 12,000 tons on the

Bully,” said Roodenburg. “That is a big difference—because

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The smaller size of the vessel reduces its construction cost

Take Advantage of your Editorial Exposure by $50-$100 million, said Roodenburg. It also has a lower environmental footprint, lower maintenance, and can be built in various yards.

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