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    An offshore drilling rig is a machine that creates holes (usually called wells or boreholes) and/or shafts in the ground. Drilling rigs can be huge structures that house equipment which is then used to drill water wells, oil wells, or natural gas wells. The term “rig” refers to the complexity of the equipment that is used to penetrate deep into the surface of the earth’s hard crust. Offshore drilling is a mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled through the seabed. Typically carried out in

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    was an offshore drilling rig built in 2001 in South Korea by Hyundai Heavy Industries. In September 2009, the rig drilled the deepest oil well in history with a vertical depth of 35,050 feet. An unplanned flow of well fluids into the wellbore can be dangerous as it could cause a blowout which would then cause a fire. In order to prevent this, driller’s pump a drilling mud into the well, creating a barrier between the undersea oil and gas and the rig. The safety of the drilling crew relies on a

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    The Deepwater Horizon is an oil drilling rig that was built in South Korea by Hyundai Heavy Industries in 2001. The rig was a massive mobile drill as it was measured to be “396 by 256 feet” (Report). Additionally, it was considered to be an exploratory rig, not an actual excavator rig. The rig was commissioned to Transocean which later leased it to British Petroleum, an oil and gas company. The oil rig was once well known as “it set the world record for the deepest oil and gas well … 35,055 feet”

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    On April 20, 2010 there was an explosion in a drilling rig that was operated and owned by Transocean. The drilling rig’s official name was “Deepwater Horizon Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit” and was in the process of drilling oil in the Macondo Propect oil field, located 40 miles off the Louisiana southeast coast. The cause was reported as a “Wellhead blowout” which cause the rig to explode, dumping more than 200 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and resulting in 11 casualties. Spills like these

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    Offshore Drilling What is it? Drilling for oil in the ocean is one of the greatest technological breakthroughs in recent decades, and many new techniques have been developed to profit from the abundance of oil underneath the ocean floor. While drilling for oil has been around for hundreds of years in one form or the another, the effective extraction of petroleum from beneath the sea floor did not surface until the last forty years. The search for oil often turns out to be unproductive, but

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    large area of Southeastern Michigan including Washtenaw, Livingston, Jackson, Lenawee, Monroe, Oakland, Wayne, Ingham and Hillsdale Counties since 1974. Economic Structure of the Organization. Ann Arbor Well Drilling is a small business and the average size, according to the National Well Drilling Association standards, which in a recent document “Michigan’s Ground Water Industry Employment” it is quoted “This portion of the industry is characterized by small firms, many of which are multi-generation

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    The Deepwater Horizon was a drilling rig explosion that occurred April 20, 2010, and ended in a fire. The rig was owned and operated by Transocean, and the drilling was done by BP in the Macondo Prospect oil field (McGill & Schwartz, 2010). Due to drilling below sea level, the explosion caused a fire and resulted in the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon, the death of 11 people and injured 17 others. The dangerous hydrocarbon gas that surrounded the blowout preventor malfunction, which caused the gas

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    Deepwater Horizon was a well-known oil drilling rig which operated within the Macondo Prospect located in the Gulf of Mexico. This oil rig was a fifth generation ultra-deep water dynamically positioned, semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit, and was built in 2001 by Hyundai Heavy industries.5 Within the year of 2009, Deepwater Horizon drilled the deepest oil well ever recorded—vertical depth of 35,050 feet in the field of Tiber oil.6 A year later in 2010, it was then commissioned within

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    Background In such a worldwide competition in vitality industry, Saudi Aramco began losing the enthusiasm of rig foremen in the field employments. This misfortune significantly influenced the labor scope at the rigs in the distributed fields that prompt lack in coaching the scope amid the concentrated rig level increment. Would that be settled if extra remunerations or reward actualized, that what the organization is looking forward to. Having been in the petroleum market for quite a while, Saudi

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 Types of Deep Sea Oil Rig Platform 2 1. Spar 2 Overview and structures 2 Construction method 2 2. Subsea system 3 Overview and structures 3 Construction method 3 3. Tension leg platform 4 Overview and structures 4 Construction method 4 Conclusion 5 Reference 6 Appendix A: Spar 7 Appendix B: Subsea System 8 Appendix C: Tension Leg Platform 9 INTRODUCTION An offshore platform which is also known as oil rig is utilised on exploration oil and gas from under seabed and

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