دیکشنری تخصصی مهندسی نفت - نسخه آنلاین

n: a floating marker used in a spread mooring system to position each anchor of a semi-submersible rig or drill ship. See spread mooring system.

n: a type of mobile offshore drilling unit that floats and is not in contact with the seafloor (except with anchors) when it is in the drilling mode. Floating units include barge rigs, drill ships, and semi-submersibles. See mobile offshore drilling unit.

n: drilling for oil or gas from a location that might be in an ocean,gulf, sea or lake. The drilling rig might be on a floating vessel (e.g. semi-submersible,drill ship) or mounted on a platform fixed to the seabed (e.g. jake up, steel jacket).

n: drilling for oil or gas in an ocean, gulf, or sea, usually on the Outer Continental Shelf. A drilling unit for offshore operations may be a mobile floating vessel with a ship or barge hull, a semi-submersible or submersible base, a self-propelled or towed structure with jacking legs (jack up drilling rig),or a permanent structure used as a production platform when drilling is completed. In general, wildcat wells are drilled from mobile floating vessels or from jackups. while development wells are drilled from platforms or jackups.

n: any of various types of drilling structures designed for use in drilling wells in oceans, seas, bays, gulfs, and so forth. Offshore rigs include platforms, jack up drilling rigs, semi-submersible drilling rigs, submersible drilling rigs, and drill ships. Compare land rig.

a rig supported by attached pontoons.

n: a type of pipe-laying vessel with a submerged pontoon hull and an elevated work area. Semi-submersible lay vessels remain relatively steady in high seas and are used in areas where conditions are expected to be continually rough.

n: a floating offshore drilling unit that has pontoons and columns that, when flooded. cause the unit to submerge to a predetermined depth. Living quarters, storage space, and so forth are assembled on the deck. Semisutxnersible rigs are self-propelled or towed to a drilling site and anchored or dynamically positioned over the site, or both. In shallow water, some semi-submersibles can be ballasted to rest on the seabed. Semi-submersibles ale more stable than drill ships and ship-shaped barges and are used extensively to drill wildcat wells in rough waters such as the North Sea. Two types of semi-submersible rigs ale the bottle- type and the column-stabilized. See floating offshore drilling rig.