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COLUMN-STABILIZED SEMISUBMERSIBLE DRILLING RIG [1 record]

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Record 1 2006-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
DEF

A semisubmersible drilling rig that has a large lower hull, boxlike or tubular in shape, with several round, watertight columns extending to an upper deck on which the drilling machinery is located.

OBS

Such a rig can drill with the lower hull resting on bottom or the hull may be floating and submerged below the water. Usually the distance between the lower hull and upper deck is fixed.

OBS

Column Stabilized Drilling Units ... are self contained and are supported by either lower displacement type hulls by means of columns or by large caissons with or without bottom footings. Drilling operations may be carried out in the floating condition, in which case the unit is defined as a semisubmersible, or when resting on the bottom, in which case the unit is defined as submersible. A semisubmersible drilling unit may operate either floating or resting on the bottom.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
OBS

Pluriel : des plateformes, des plates-formes.

OBS

plateforme (sing.); plateformes (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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