ABS awarded China Merchants Industry (CMI) Approval in Principle (AIP) for its self-developed Deep-sea Mining Riser and Lift System.The AIP follows ABS awarding AIP for CMI’s deep-sea mining system ...

Approximately 58 km southeast of Shingu City, Japan--Deepsea Drilling Vessel CHIKYU has resumed IODP drilling operations in the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone off the Kii Peninsula of Japan. The ...

A joint industry project run by DNV GL has replicated stresses measured in an umbilical subjected to tension and bending in full-scale tests, further validating the accuracy of the analysis software ...

Pride International, one of the world's largest offshore drilling contractors, has selected the latest version of the MR-6 marine riser system from VetcoGray for use on a new deepwater drill ship that ...

The driller is in the process of retrieving the 2300 feet of riser that is hanging beneath the rig. Preliminary indications from underwater video indicate that bolt assemblies failed at a riser ...

The fundamental arrangement when drilling an oil well involves an outer casing and an inner drillpipe with a drillbit on its end, each continuously extending as the well drives ahead. This allows ...

How subsea engineering enables safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible deepwater exploration drilling and well testing at 1,000–3,500 m water depths. Assumptions (estimated): Deepwater ...