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Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding (MES) has placed contracts with Sonardyne In ...

04/09/2001

Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding (MES) has placed contracts with Sonardyne International of Yately, Hampshire, for the supply of acoustic underwater positioning equipment for use on the OD21 (Ocean Drilling in the 21st Century) project. The project will include riser drilling in water depths to 4,000 metres and riserless drilling to 7,000 metres - depths reported to be significantly deeper than the current oilfield drilling record of 2,953 metres. The Sonardyne system will be installed on a new ultra-deepwater drillship that is currently being built in Japan for the Japan Marine Science and Technology Centre (JAMSTEC). The ship will enter service in 2004 when it will undertake geotechnical and geophysical drilling projects aimed at gathering data about the geological behaviour of the Earth’s crust.

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Region: Asia-Pacific

Keywords: Exploration and production

Subjects: Geophysics, Information technology, Resource use and management, Project Management, Marine Science, Marine transportation, Oil and gas extraction, Transportation, Transmission and Distribution, Primary energy production, Risers