A drilling riser is a conduit that provides a temporary extension of a subsea oil well to a surface drilling facility. Drilling risers are categorised...

theatre platform Riser, a length of vertically oriented piping used to deliver fluid, gas, or electrical signals or power upward Drilling riser, a device used...

A marine riser tensioner is a device used on an offshore drilling vessel which provides a near constant upward force on the drilling riser independent...

Resolution, drills without a riser. Riser-less drilling uses seawater as its primary drilling fluid, which is pumped down through the drill pipe. This...

Deepwater drilling, or deep well drilling, is the process of creating holes in the Earth's crust using a drilling rig for oil extraction under the deep...

high-pressure methane gas from the well expanded into the marine riser and rose into the drilling rig, where it ignited and exploded, engulfing the platform...

above by a drilling riser that provides a continuous pathway for the drill string and fluids emanating from the wellbore. In effect, a riser extends the...

Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) was an international marine research program, running from 2003 to 2013. The program used heavy drilling equipment mounted...

connected via a drilling riser over the release, and collecting oil and gas. Q4000 and Discoverer Enterprise flare off gas at the site of drilling operations...

vessel designed for use in exploratory offshore drilling of new oil and gas wells or for scientific drilling purposes. In recent years the vessels have been...

A marine riser tensioner is a device used on an offshore drilling vessel that provides a near-constant upward force on the drilling riser independent...

connecting a floating drilling rig to the subsea Christmas tree. This device is also known as a lower marine riser package (LMRP). Workover Riser System[permanent...

semi-submersible offshore drilling rig owned by Transocean and operated by the BP company. On April 20, 2010, while drilling in the Gulf of Mexico at the...

50 m). It includes production facilities with 13 production slots, a drilling riser slot and two service slots, and quarters for 126 personnel. The front-end...

equipment used in the drilling and work-over (servicing or modification) of deep sea oil & gas wells, by Mobile Offshore Drilling Rigs (MODU's) and Well...

Horizon semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit, which was owned and operated by Transocean and drilling for BP in the Macondo Prospect oil field...

Transocean Ltd. is an American drilling company. It is the world's largest offshore drilling contractor based on revenue and is based in Vernier, Switzerland...

– dummy-run log DR – drilling report DRI – drift log DRL – drilling DRLCT – drilling chart DRLOG – drilling log DRLPR – drilling proposal/progress report...

During that era, the simple drilling techniques, such as cable-tool drilling, and the lack of blowout preventers meant that drillers could not control high-pressure...

as a communications device between the three Justirisers. Shouta Date / Riser Glen Shouta Date is a 2nd-year high-school student at Seitai High School...

The drilling of the production wells is done by Odfjell Drilling using Deepsea Bergen. The same drilling contractor was also used while drilling exploration...

from the original on 6 July 2011, retrieved 8 August 2011 Pioneering drilling riser wins EEEGR award, 2011, archived from the original on 6 October 2011...

convened again on June 10 by Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen after the drilling riser from the well was cut by Maxx3 ROV Dive #35 on May 31, 2010, in an attempt...

mechanics, a stress concentration (also called a stress raiser or a stress riser or notch sensitivity) is a location in an object where the stress is significantly...

decommissioning, and fixed wind installation. Claxton has supplied drilling risers for many major projects around the world and has achieved safety milestones...

A riser clamp is a type of hardware used by mechanical building trades for pipe support in vertical runs of piping (risers) at each floor level. The devices...

through the drilling derrick on the oil platform, which is used to support the surface equipment, although on platforms with no drilling facilities a...

drill bits, borehole enlargement services, and directional drilling tools; optimization/automation software and services; downhole tools for drilling...

a semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit that sank in Canadian waters on 15 February 1982. It was drilling an exploration well on the Grand Banks...

manufacturer of drill pipes. The drill pipe operations were regrouped under the name VAM Drilling, and in 2013 renamed Vallourec Drilling Products. Vallourec...