Hello and welcome on board the Maersk high efficiency self-elevating offshore drilling unit (so-called jack-up rig). Four identical units have been delivered and handed over to Maersk Drilling within the period from 2008 to 2009 from the world famous and respected Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore.

In a design of the rigs, particular attention was paid by to the significantly increased efficiency and logistics, and to create a safe working environment. The rigs can operate year around at depths of the water up to 350 feet.

This video will demonstrate the construction of this highly efficient and technically sophisticated drilling rig, show the main arrangements on board; the content is also covering the jacking system allowing to raise or lower the working hull of the rig, and to the drilling package. An excellent video for the people with real interest in the offshore exploration activities.

Here is one more short video animation devoted to the offshore self-elevating drilling units used for the exploration of hydrocarbons offshore. This video is best when supplemented with another animation we have on same topic. However, this one is mainly focusing on the actual operation of the rig not touching its construction and features.

They both will demonstrate the whole process of jack-up rig animation, including jacking the rig barge up and down, which is actually the main thing distinguishing these rigs from the offshore rigs of all other types, such as bottom-supported or semi-submersible mobile offshore units.

Very good ones to show to the people who have never been engaged in any offshore activities and make them interested.

A new video lesson showing the basics of the running and landing of the BOPs offshore. This twenty-minute video film will be very helpful to the specialists working offshore and engaged in the above stated operations. Generally, the blowout preventer is huge valve that is installed in stacks in order to seal, monitor and control oil or gas wells.

They are designed and constructed to be able to cope with the extreme pressures and formation kicks that emanate from a well reservoir in the course of the drilling operations. BOPs are extremely important for the safe drilling so the drilling team members are all required to have a clear understanding of all operations with the subject equipment.

Apart from the offshore professionals, this video should also serve as the informative source of supplementary training for the students and trainees who have already received some theoretical training in blowout preventing equipment and its installation on the rigs, and are willing to improve their skills.

The content will actually be interesting even to the broad auditory since it describes quite the critically important and technologically sophisticated piece of equipment on board any offshore drilling installation.

This video is devoted to the largest rig in the world - her name is Perdido and she was built somewhere in the Mexican Gulf. You will be able to witness how the prominent engineers were building this genuine technological masterpiece. Just imagine, more than forty-five thousand tons of steel were transformed into the most advanced oil rig on the planet - a true giant in the extreme world of offshore engineering.

End of August 2008 - today is the big day for the constructors of Perdido. They are moving the bottom half of their offshore oil rig from her construction dry dock in Texas out into the ocean. More than eighteen thousand tons of metal will travel for three hundred kilometers into the Mexican Gulf. Here it will form the base for the state-of-the-art floating installation that will tap into three newly discovered oil fields. Perdido is expected to produce enough oil every day to fill up the 150000 cars with petrol. Needless to say that this is a must-watch for any offshore person and in fact everyone.

This file is intended to describe in detail the whole process of the installation of mooring system and SSDU, i.e. semi-submersible drilling unit. Its content is expected to be practical to the offshore workers engaged in subject operations. Here is an excerpt from the information contained at the slides...

Mooring system installation procedure - Anchor and pendant buoys stored on board MPSV1 and MPSV2. Mooring line arrangement. The MPSV1 is pulling the wire to put on the stopper. MPSV1 release the chain and connecting to the wire. The MPSV2 is pulling the chain to put on the stopper connecting the wire to the anchor. release the chain and connecting to the anchor.

The anchor is pulled to the stern. The anchor is lowered to the seabed. The MPSV's is pulling the anchor to just above the sea-bed target position. Landing of the anchor at the e-bed target position. MPSV2 is releasing the tension in pendant wire and connecting the pendant buoy. ..

This animation was prepared to show the very basic principles of the offshore drilling. Subject term is normally used to describe a mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled through the seabed in order to explore for and then produce hydrocarbons lying in rock formations deep beneath the seafloor.

It may also be used for drilling activities on the continental shelf and in lakes, inland seas and inshore waters. An excellent small video for the newcomers to the industry which will be good when demonstrated in the classes serving as a perfect supplement to the theoretical lessons.

Even if you are a professional, we would still recommend to download this one and save on your electronic devices so that you can always show this to the other people; since it is very simple and easy to catch, the content may interest people to get into the drilling industry.

These are quite typical seeings in the home port of the vessels commonly serving offshore installations. One of the jobs these vessel are used for is laying anchors to secure an offshore installation in position.

Anchor handling is a complex and exacting task - in order to achieve success, a thorough preparation and an absolutely clear understanding is required of what the work scope would entail.

But regardless of how urgent or technically complex the job is expected to be, it has to wait for suitable weather. This video is intended to demonstrate how the offshore anchor handling operations are usually planned and performed. It covers all stages from pre-planning to the completion of anchor handing activities.

The safety issues have also been covered. The video will serve as an excellent visual aid for those willing to know a bit more about the subject, in addition to the theoretical information they have already obtained from the other sources.

Nowadays, the oil exploration is being driven to the harshest corners of the planet. With the latest generation of offshore rig no reserves of oil and gas are beyond reach. This is the most extreme drilling rig in the world - the Erik Raude - it can drill for oil in the deepest water and roughest weather on the seven seas. The exploration of oil and gas has moved from land to sea.

The oil industry has developed massive drilling platforms, oil rigs, to stand on the ocean floor and drill beneath the seabed. Until now, offshore rigs have been restricted to shallow water limited by the length of their legs, but the new generation of rigs do not stand on the seabed - they float. The latest and greatest of these floating rigs is the Erik Raude capable of drilling not just in deep water but in ultra-deep water.

The Erik Raude is named after Erik the Red, a fearless Norwegian explorer who discovered Iceland. In a few days this mechanical explorer will begin its first voyage of discovery. Its mission is to search oil where no one has dared to search before. Erik is a self-contained floating city connected to the outside world only by boat and helicopter. Everything on board is designed around the massive drill in the centre - the derrick...