forget it…nobody can do it as well as the Koreans. Still, if the Norwegians believe that the Italians can do it then maybe it isn’t an absolute crash & burn yet look at Davie in Quebec and how the Norwegians totally missed that field goal kick!
The shipbuilding giant Fincantieri Cantieri Navali Italiani S.p.A. and NLI, a Norwegian total supplier to oil & gas business, announce today the signing of a collaboration agreement, supporting the aim to penetrating the Mobile Drilling Units construction market.
This agreement includes the development of an innovative high quality drilling tower. For NLI the partnership is a milestone. In 1974 they delivered the first derrick to the Norwegian offshore industry. Most recently they have developed a drill tower solution new to the global market. With this Italian-Norwegian partnership NLI sees a great opportunity to reach out with their innovative solutions.
From now on the parties will include each other when approaching the market and present their projects to the various contractors and operators / oil companies.
The agreement follows the recent creation of the new Fincantieri Offshore Business Unit, dedicated to the commercialization and production of high valued offshore vessels such as Drill ships, Semisubmersibles Drilling Rigs, Pipe Layers, Construction Vessels and Non Standard Supply Vessels.
The Fincantieri Offshore value proposition is based on the offer of new generation turn-key vessels, tailor made to meet specific client requirements.
Mr. Sigve Barvik, Marketing Director of NLI commented: “We now have a yard, with financial power and world class know-how, which is prepared to support the potential of our drilling tower. Fincantieri’s European deep-water drilling initiative is unique and will allow to fully develop a drilling tower with superior performance, efficiency, eco friendliness, and safety for the personnel”.
Commenting on the agreement, Mr. Giuseppe Coronella, EVP Fincantieri Offshore Business Unit said: ”We are very motivated to start this joint development process with a company delivering quality drilling and topsides engineering solutions. this will strengthen the capability of the established Fincantieri’s drilling supply chain, the “Polo Offshore”.
Read more about NLI’s innovative “Northern Light” derrick.
Noble has learned this lesson hard way although I am still optimistic about the Huisman MPT concept and certainly could see that drilling package on this hull!
I wonder how the BULLY’s and GLOBETROTTER is doing out there? I don’t hear much trumpeting by Shell. I know the NB1 has had a buttload of thruster issues!
A good friend of mine is the C/E on the G/T, been on it since before it left China, when I asked him how he liked his new ship, he said Quote" this delete delete delete delete delete, peice of delete delete delete and I can’t repeeat the rest of if because of religous regions.
[QUOTE=ChiefRob;70791]A good friend of mine is the C/E on the G/T, been on it since before it left China, when I asked him how he liked his new ship, he said Quote" this delete delete delete delete delete, peice of delete delete delete and I can’t repeeat the rest of if because of religous regions.[/QUOTE]
I personally like g/d effing piece of emmeff’n shunuvabich shyte. Think that would get by the Religious Rightwingnuts! How the hell cares anyway, we’re all seamen here (except for OICUR12 and certain others who will escape mention at the moment). Actually, our esteemed truck drivin man is quite the pottymouth and makes your’s truly look like a Quaker minister in comparison!
Gotta give the man some kind of credit even tho he still is a cretin!
Btw, heard all the same things about the goodshit GLOBULARTROTTER. What the eff did Noble think they were gong to get going to a yard in China which had never built a vessel even close to a DP drillship and then have little if any project management on site! One report I received is that there are HUGE electrical issues with the vessel.
[QUOTE=c.captain;70796]I personally like g/d effing piece of emmeff’n shunuvabich shyte. Think that would get by the Religious Rightwingnuts! How the hell cares anyway, we’re all seamen here (except for OICUR12 and certain others who will escape mention at the moment). Actually, our esteemed truck drivin man is quite the pottymouth and makes your’s truly look like a Quaker minister in comparison!
Gotta give the man some kind of credit even tho he still is a cretin!
Btw, heard all the same things about the goodshit GLOBULARTROTTER. What the eff did Noble think they were gong to get going to a yard in China which had never built a vessel even close to a DP drillship and then have little if any project management on site! One report I received is that there are HUGE electrical issues with the vessel.
What a bunch of utter poltroons that company is![/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=PDCMATE;70799]I think you all need to take a look at http://www.x-drill.net/
Im sure you will all enjoy![/QUOTE]
I hate to break it to everybody but this is going to be a [DELETED] Production. He has somehow tapped some big Chinese $$$ to fund the construction of these ships. Definitely not his modus operandi of buying the old junk nobody else wants and make bank selling it to some other sucker.
I wonder what Shell will have to say about his getting back in the game? [DELETED] certainly can’t be on Shell’s most favored trading partner list!
The ships however look like they are going to be top flight and one source I have close to X-Drill uses the B-word when discussing the cost of each. One other thing is that these vessels are supposed to qualify for a new DP-4 class which is in development currently!
[QUOTE=powerabout;70875]tell us more about DP4
is it like the people flogging that DP2+ will be the norm shortly but most suppliers have never heard of it yet?
Cheers[/QUOTE]
In all honesty I can’t recall what the fellow I was talking to about these ships told me that DP4 was going to have that DP3 doesn’t already? Maybe artificial intelligence? Maybe Kongsberg’s name for the system will be K-Hal? A robot in the DPO chair? Why not put so many layers of self correcting and intuitive automation into the system that the human element will no longer be needed? DP operations centers ashore much like pilotless drones flown by satellite link?
Actually, I think that it does have to do much more with still more added redundancy to all sensors and controllers and another fiber optic network (I believe).
thanks for that I will ask around
Cheers
(DP2+ was a shell inititive to make dp3 cheaper)
My predicition it we will get another sensor, a couple of 3 axis gyros ( now that they are cheap) that that can tell the DP system whether the vessel has moved or not.
That could fix run away thrusters and gps from moving the vessel when it shouldnt
[QUOTE=cmakin;70882]“Ex Drillship”? Oh, man. Fire the marketing guy.[/QUOTE]
It’s all about this bloody Ulstein X-Bow nonsense! Why on earth do companies want to have ships that look so goddamned UGLY? I mean what it the effing point of it other that there is NO point?
A good friend of mine is the C/E on the G/T, been on it since before it left China, when I asked him how he liked his new ship, he said Quote" this delete delete delete delete delete, peice of delete delete delete and I can’t repeeat the rest of if because of religous regions.
[QUOTE=powerabout;70880]My predicition it we will get another sensor, a couple of 3 axis gyros ( now that they are cheap) that that can tell the DP system whether the vessel has moved or not. That could fix run away thrusters and gps from moving the vessel when it shouldnt[/QUOTE]
I have always wondered why inertial navigation wasn’t introduced years ago into DP drilling? Hell, they make inertial guidance small enough to fit in the nose of a cruise missle so why not add INS as a reference system? Guess what?..they finally are! They have integrated it now with HPR (HAIN) and soon to be integrated with DGPS.
[QUOTE=powerabout;71095]because the US government wouldnt allow anyone to have them, now that they do you can buy them from several companies[/QUOTE]
the fated ah ha moment! now I see why they weren’t out there in the industry up till this point but damned glad to know they are soon to be at a theater near you!
