While offshore drilling in shallower waters allows a jackup to position itself on the sea floor above the location, drilling in deepwaters requires the rig, whether a semisub or a drillship, to float ...

The inclusion of dynamic positioning systems has become a standard and necessary system on supply boats and many crew/supply vessels. In their simplest form, dynamic positioning systems allow an ...

In the last decade, offshore operators have developed and refined an emergency response system with standardized format and nomenclature for dynamically positioned drilling operations. For each well ...

From its new manufacturing facility near Jersey Village, Thrustmaster of Texas designs and builds marine thrusters more powerful than a 747's jet engines. Used in dynamic-positioning systems to hold ...

Seadrill Limited, an offshore drilling contractor, Kongsberg Maritime AS, a global technology leader, and Hanwha Drilling, a provider of offshore drilling services, announced a strategic alliance to ...

GE's Power Conversion unit has netted $600 million worth of contracts to supply propulsion, dynamic positioning, vessel automation and drilling systems under Brazil's ambitious rig-building programme, ...