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- Submersible Drilling Barge "The Mr. Ray' Christened At McDermott Yard Maritime Reporter, Oct 15, 1981 #8
The Phoenix Seadrill Rig 3 — The Mr. Ray—an all-new slottedtype submersible posted drilling barge built by McDermott Inc.
shipyard, New Iberia, La., was christened recently at ceremonies held at the yard.
The rig can drill below 30,000 feet in nominal 7- to 21-foot water depths. It is one of very few rigs sized for the intracoastal waterway that has the capability to drill multiple wells within its s l o t w i t h o u t repositioning the hull.
The Mr. Ray was christened by Mrs. Ray Hargrove, wife of the person for whom the rig is named, the late father of William R. Hargrove, board chairman of Phoenix Management Corp. Frederick L.
Saalwachter, executive vice president of Phoenix, delivered the address, and the Rev. John Mackinnon, pastor of Memorial Drive United Methodist Church, Houston, delivered the blessing of the rig and its crews.
The Mr. Ray is a 209-foot 6-inch-long by 14-foot deep, by 54-foot wide submersible barge having a 15-foot-wide by 40-footlong slot in the stern. The unit is equipped with a skid unit built to allow transverse and longitudinal movement of the intact mast and drill floor to as much as 4 feet off centerline port and starhoard, and to as much as 8 feet fore and aft. The movement is accomplished by activation of hydraulic cylinder jacks.
Power generation for the drilling unit is from two Electro- Motive diesel Model MD16E8 marine drilling units. Each unit is rated 1,550 kw, 2,000 kva, 0.8 pf, 600 v, 3-phase, 60 hertz, with the prime mover being an EMD- 16-645E8 diesel engine rated 2,200-hp maximum at 900 rpm, and the prime generator being an EMD HB20-6 brushless ac synchronous generator.
The rig has two Stewart & S t e v e n s o n Model 16VGDT-540 generator sets. The prime mover is a Detroit Diesel 16V-71T diesel engine rated 685-hp maximum at 1,800 rpm and the prime generator is a Delco brushless ac synchronous generator.
The two deck cranes are Unit Mariner 280H offshore marine pedestal cranes each ABS certified.
Each crane is rated 28,620 pounds lift at 30 feet. Each is equipped with 50-foot lattice type booms with 5-foot boom tip extension.
The main hoist is 10,000 pounds single line pull having a 15 ton 2 sheave main hook block.
The auxiliary hoist is a 7,500- pound single line pull having a 5-ton ball with swivel and hook.
Each crane is hydraulically driven.
The port crane is equipped with controls on a crane pedestal.
The starboard crane is equipped with remote controls located on the rig floor.
William R. Hargrove, the Phoenix Management Corporation board chairman, reports that a jackup unit, Rig No. 5, is under construction at Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point, Md., yard, and that three other units are in various stages of planning or design for the company.
Phoenix has p u r c h a s e d the equipment and entered into a contract for a Bethlehem JU- 100MC. This rig will be a jackup mobile drilling unit with a cantilevered skid floor and skirted mat. It is intended to operate in the Gulf of Mexico, or in areas of similar environment, within a maximum sinking depth of 100 feet while drilling routine wells to 20,000 feet. Rig 5 is scheduled to be delivered during July 1982.
The Phoenix Seadrill Rig 4 will be capable of drilling 20,000 feet.
This rig is a first of a kind utilizing a three-module hovercraft principal as a wetlands drill barge system. It has been more than 16 months in design and engineering development in the U.S. and in England by the Phoenix Hovercraft Corporation. "As soon as we are comfortable with certain patents and licenses," Mr. Hargrove reported, "the final design phase shall be concluded. Machinery has already been committed, and we anticipate a 12- month construction by Brown & Root." This project is very much alive and Rig 4 shall be built, Mr. Hargrove stated.
Herman Schellstede and Associates, Inc. is under contract to develop and engineer a submersible offshore drilling rig design for Phoenix Seadrill Rig 6. The design criteria is for Smackover and Tuscaloosa-like drilling year around in the northern coastal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Six shipyards have been asked to bid on construction. The critical machinery has already been committed, Mr. Hargrove said, and Rig 6 will be scheduled for a christening the first quarter of 1983.
Phoenix Seadrill Rig 7 will be a jackup designed to stav on location in water greater than 300 feet deep during hurricane season in the Gulf of Mexico. Its drilling capabilities will be to 20,000 feet. Here, as with all of these future rigs, major equipment has already been committed, he said. Good rapport exists with a highly competent shipyard for its delivery to Phoenix in March 1983. As soon as negotiations are concluded, Mr. Hargrove said, details will be given and a public announcement shall be made.
The company has two jackup units operating in the Gulf of Mexico, and the Mr. Ray is under contract to Koch Exploration Co.
for drilling in Louisiana waters.
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- Offshore Deepwater Brazil Sevan Drilling’s Big Dig Maritime Reporter, Aug 2013 #32
to build, so we do not need the peak rates to generate returns.” Regarding prospects for the coming five years, Willmann said, “Since November 2011, Seadrill acquired Sevan Marine’s stake in Sevan Drilling. Seadrill is the world’s most successful operator. There is however a high financial risk associated
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- Singapore’s Survivability Maritime Reporter, Mar 2017 #28
right-size our (Offshore & Marine) division must continue,” Keppel Corp.’s chief exec, Chin Loh Hua, says for the record. After delivering a rig for Seadrill, Sembcorp, too, is agreeing to delay a rig handover, and if its client doesn’t find work for the finished semi-submersible and Sembcorp fails to sell
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- IHC Merwede Launches Pipelaying Vessel Marine Technology, Oct 2013 #17
Manager of Petrobras E&P Service. The 550 ton pipelaying vessel – ordered by Sapura Navegação Marítima, a joint venture between SapuraKencana and Seadrill – is the first in a series of five fully integrated offshore vessels, which will be completely designed, engineered and built by IHC Merwede. After
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- Offshore Energy Outlook for 2020 Marine Technology, Sep 2019 #46
Baker Hughes, for example, has committed to reducing CO2 equivalent emissions by 50% by 2030 and achieving net zero by 2050. As another example, the Seadrill-operated drilling rig West Mira has been equipped to run on batter power. The list goes on and on.The shift is undoubtedly a global one, but nowhere
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- Oil Majors Push Offshore Players for 30% Cuts Maritime Reporter, Apr 2015 #44
have been the Gulf of Mexico, and the North Seas, where the latter has seen massive retrenchment as projects have been delayed and players like Maersk, SeaDrill and Transocean, among others, have announced cutbacks, layoffs and other measures. “These have been historically much more spot-, than long-term
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- '80s Brain Drain Haunts Today’s Offshore Layoffs Maritime Logistics Professional, Q2 2015 #38
become a very difficult environment in which to make money, he says. “All the major drilling companies have lost 50% of their value – Ensco, Transocean, Seadrill – banks absolutely don’t want to lend them money,” says Jason Waldie, energy analyst for Douglas-Westwood Pte, Ltd. “Exploration and seismic spending
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June 2017 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 47this year their intention cant decline in the oil price from for vessels. The second hand mar- North Sea competitor Transocean. to restructure. Today Seadrill has 115 USD/bbl to 28 USD/bbl, with ket is unpredictable, with some In March 2017, they bought all a share price sitting at 0.58 dollars OO a
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May 2017 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 50The Norway Way New Players: A Seadrill Jack-up (Photo: Oyvind Hagen, Statoil) As a mix of traditional heavy- weights and start-ups ? ght to keep Norway’s offshore industry a? loat, collectively they assess The New RealityThe New Reality OFFSHORE OFFSHORE NORWAYNORWAY Beneath some palpable yet halting
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March 2017 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 29right-size our (Offshore & Ma- rine) division must continue,” Keppel Corp.’s chief exec, Chin Loh Hua, says for the record. After delivering a rig for Seadrill, Sembcorp, too, is agreeing to delay a rig handover, and if its client doesn’t ? nd work for the ? nished semi-submersible and Sembcorp fails
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Q2 2015 - Maritime Logistics Professional page: 42career employment “All the major drilling companies have lost 50% of their value – Ensco, Transocean, Seadrill – from the third quarter last year to
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October 1981 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 62Mobile 20 Alfa Drilling . .(unnamed) . Griffin-Alexander Griffin-Alexander IV . Jackup " Griffin-Alexander VI Temple Drilling Cheyenne Phoenix Seadrill (unnamed) Dixilyn-Field DF-77 Blocker Drilling . (unnamed) .... (unnamed) Bailey & Shannon Inc. Gulfport Shipbuilding Port Arthur, Texas
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October 15, 1981 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 6ON THE COVER Submersible Drilling Barge "The Mr. Ray' Christened At McDermott Yard The Phoenix Seadrill Rig 3 — The Mr. Ray—an all-new slotted- type submersible posted drilling barge built by McDermott Inc. shipyard, New Iberia, La., was christened recently at ceremonies held at the yard.
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December 1981 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 62, Griffin-Alexander .... Griffin-Alexander IV Jackup 3/82 Sparrows Point, Md. Griffin-Alexander VI 6/82 Temple Drilling Cheyenne . 4/82 Phoenix Seadrill Phoenix Seadrill V 9/82 Chicago Bridge & Iron Dixilyn-Field DF-77 Submersible 6/82 Pascagoula, Miss Blocker Drilling (unnamed) . . 10/82 " "
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October 2013 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 17Manager of Petrobras E&P Service.The 550 ton pipelaying vessel ? ordered by Sapura Naveg- ação Marítima, a joint venture between SapuraKencana and Seadrill ? is the rst in a series of ve fully integrated offshore vessels, which will be completely designed, engi- neered and built by IHC Merwede. After
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August 2013 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 33to build, so we do not need the peak rates to gen-erate returns.? Regarding prospects for the com-ing Þ ve years, Willmann said, ?Since November 2011, Seadrill acquired Se- van Marine?s stake in Sevan Drilling. Seadrill is the world?s most successful operator. There is however a high Þ nan-cial risk associated
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January 2006 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 13vessel for Mosvold Drilling, being built at Samsung. Electrical power system packages for two semi-submersible drilling rigs for subsidiaries of SeaDrill Ltd., to be built at Jurong Shipyard A contract to outfit three vessels at Aker Langsten shipyard in Norway: one well intervention vessel and
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August 2010 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 10at 10 knots Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) is on track towards an on-budget and on-time delivery of the KFELS B Class jackup rig, West Callisto, to Seadrill Limited (Seadrill) before the end of July 2010. This rig was named at Keppel FELS recently by Lady Sponsor Mrs Poespawardhani Priyono, spouse Mr
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June 2, 2010 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 35to 2018 and local content increasing between 55% and 65%. The modern deepwater drillships are being leased from specialized companies such as Seadrill, which has recently delivered a third deepwater drill rig to Petro- bras. At press time the rig was sailing to Brazil from Sin- gapore´s Jurong
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June 2, 2010 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 34market sectors, a variety of organizations and companies, such as Brazil´s SINAVAL, but also in- cluding majors such as Transocean, Pride, Noble, Seadrill, Sevan, Modec, BW Offshore and Teekay. In addition, a number of leading shipbuilders are set- ting up shop in Brazil including market leaders
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March 2013 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 64and has more than 15 years of experience from the subsea sector. Dåtland has spent the last seven years with the offshore drill- ing contractor Seadrill Ltd. focusing on investor relations and corporate nance activities. Unitech Appoints CEO Unitech appointed Martin Vahl CEO, re- sponsible for
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November 2011 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 93In- dustries in Korea. At Jurong Shipyard in Singapore, Noreq won the lifesaving package for eight plus six optional Jack Up rigs they are build- ing for Seadrill and Noble Drilling. An- other Singaporean yard choosing Noreq equipment for new buildings is Keppel Fels Singapore, which ordered life- and rescue
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August 2011 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 33offshore Malaysia. Other con- versions currently underway include Malaysia Off- shore Mobile Production (Labuan) drilling rig MOPU DUA (DANA 256), and Seadrill Pte?s ten- der drilling barge T8. Current offshore engineer- ing and construction projects include MISC/Shell?s Gumusut semi-submersible FPS hull
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August 2011 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 32itime CS50 MK II semi-submersible(West Pegasus delivered in April 2011), and West Cressida (ex-PetroJack IV), a Pacific Class 375 jack-up rig acquired by Seadrill in 2010.Representing a major milestone for Ju-rong Shipyard, West Elara is the yard?s first harsh-environment high-specifica- tion jack-up newbuild
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May 2010 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 65incredible images Offshore Brazil with West Polaris. (Photo courtesy of Seadrill) 64 MTR May 2010
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May 2010 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 52
Statoil Hires SeaDrill Rig AC-ROV Reports Strong Sales Micro ROV manufacturer AC-CESS Co UK reported a number of late 2009 early 2010 successes with its ACROV Underwater Inspection System. Oil and gas producer Dong Energy have purchased and deployed two AC-ROV systems on its North Sea based Siri platform.
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May 2010 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 9
anchored over subsea wells and subsea systems that may be as deep as 2,200 meters. Companies such as Petrobras, Shell, OGX, Maersk, TEEKAY, BW Offshore, Seadrill, DOF Subsea, NorSkan, Sevan Marine, Technip, among many others, use Kongsberg DP systems on their ships, support vessels, FPSOs and MODUs. Kongsberg
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April 2010 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 16
advanced standards of comfort and safety for the divers. The vessel can accommodate up to 174 people (including divers). In addition, there is a twin ? Seadrill Rig Contract Extended work station integrated air-dive system for shallow diving which can also be conducted utilizing Subsea 7's MCA certified
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January 2011 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 43www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 43 (Photo: SeaDrill)
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January 2011 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 4242 MTR January/February 2011 Seadrill latest generation deepwater driller West Eminence arriving in Rio. Petrobras expanded its refining park to 15 units (11 in Brazil and 4 abroad), it is also building new conversion plants to produce high-quality, low sulfur content fuels, the new conversion plants
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March 2006 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 10a contract with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. for delivery of drilling sys- tems for two semi-submersible drilling rigs ordered by SeaDrill. The total contract value for Aker Kvaerner is approximately $136.6 million. The scope of work for Aker Kvaerner MH is to deliver two complete