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UNDERWATER DRILLING [3 records]

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Record 1 2019-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Engineering
CONT

Corrosion engineers study, monitor, measure, control, and prevent corrosion processes.

CONT

Corrosion engineers are most frequently found working in the energy industry, often with hydroelectric plants that rely on underwater turbines. They are also employed by oil companies who do offshore platform drilling in corrosive saltwater conditions. They can even be found working in mining and waste management professions. Whatever the industry, a corrosion engineer typically works to collect data via reports, inspections, and measurements to determine the speed and spread of corrosion and rust onset on metal parts and structures.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Ingénierie

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
CONT

Mobile drilling platform. The underwater search has been made possible only by vast improvement in offshore technology... new types [of platform] stress characteristics of mobility and the capacity for work in [deep] water. The world's mobile platform fleet can be divided into four main groupings : self-elevating platform, submersibles, semisubmersibles, and floating drill ships. The most widely used mobile platform is the self-elevating, or jack-up unit. It is towed to location, where the legs are lowered to the sea floor, and the platform is jacked up above wave height.

OBS

for "offshore mobile drilling unit": offshore mobile drilling unit

Key term(s)
  • mobile drilling unit
  • mobile unit

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
CONT

Aussi pour exécuter [les forages d'exploration] qui ne durent que quelques mois chacun, utilise-t-on des infrastructures mobiles, que l'on déplace d'un site à un autre [...] À faible profondeur on utilise des «jack-up» ou plates-formes autoélévatrices à piles mobiles verticalement actionnées par vérins ou par crémaillères. En cours de déplacement le pont fait office de coque et flotte à la surface de l'eau, les piles étant relevées [...] Au-delà de [90 mètres d'eau], on utilise des engins de forage flottants, navires ou plates-formes semi-submersibles.

Spanish

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Record 3 2000-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Boring and Drilling (Mines)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Sondage et forage miniers

Spanish

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