The Office of Investigations and Casualty Analysis has released Safety Alert 11-22 regarding an incident involving weaknesses within Dynamic Positioning Systems. Dynamic positioning (DP) systems 1 ...

While offshore drilling in shallower waters allows a jackup to position itself on the sea floor above the location, drilling in deepwaters requires the rig, whether a semisub or a drillship, to float ...

The United States Coast Guard issued the following Marine Safety Alert rergarding Dynamic Positioning Systems. This particular ship had equipment arrangements that exceeded minimum DP equipment class ...

CIMC Yantai Raffles in China and STX Offshore & Shipbuilding in Korea have selected extensive dynamic positioning (DP), automation, new generation safety system, integrated navigation, hydro-acoustic ...

Karoon Energy Ltd., Melbourne, has contracted the dynamic positioning drillship Stena Forth to drill the company’s Marina-1 wildcat in the Tumbes basin offshore Peru. The well, in Karoon’s 40% owned ...

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) of the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, said in a bulletin that "the ship's dynamic positioning system lost heading control and ...

There are two big issues in such a proposal. One is the acceptability of dynamic positioning (DP) in a long-term role for a production ship, as opposed to the relatively short-term spells spent by a ...

HAMILTON, Bermuda--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Valaris Limited (NYSE: VAL) ("Valaris" or the "Company") announced today that ultra-deepwater drillship VALARIS DS-12 has become the first vessel in the world to ...