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NAVIRE ACCOMPAGNEMENT [1 record]

Record 1 2015-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Types of Ships and Boats
DEF

A support ship designed to assist drilling operations from a fixed platform offshore. The derrick, draw-works, and other drilling equipment are installed on the platform, while mud tanks, power supplies, cementing unit, cranes, bulk storage, communications and other services are carried by the tender.

CONT

The tender usually contains living quarters, storage space, and the mud system.

CONT

Drillers first took to the sea with land rigs mounted on barges towed to location and anchored or with fixed platforms accompanied by a tender ship ...

OBS

drilling tender

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Types de bateaux
DEF

Bateau annexe utilisé pour le transport et le stockage d'équipement et de matériel dans les forages sous-marins.

DEF

Barge ancrée en permanence à côté d'une plateforme fixe de production et sur laquelle se trouvent les quartiers d'habitation, le râtelier à tuyaux, le système de lavage des boues, etc.

CONT

[...] on utilise [...] une plate-forme fixe sur laquelle est placé le treuil de forage; un ponton annexe, le tender, comportant tout l'équipement [...]

CONT

[...] le stockage du riser [...] nous a [...] préoccupés [...] Ira-t-on, pour les plus grandes profondeurs, vers [...] un stockage de ce tube à bord d'un navire d'accompagnement?

Spanish

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