Deepwater Horizon
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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Flag: | Marshall Islands |
| Class: | American Bureau of Shipping |
| IMO No.: | 8764597 |
| Call Sign: | V7HC9 |
| Built: | Hyundai Heavy Industries |
| Launched: | |
| Commissioned: | 2001 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 52,589 tonnes |
| Length: | 112 m |
| Beam: | 78 m |
| Air Draft: | 97.4 m |
| Draught: | 23 m |
| Complement: | 146 |
| Dynamic positioning | |
| Class: | 3 (DPS-3) |
| Thrusters: | 8 Aquamasters |
| Power Plant: | 42 megawatts |
| Drilling | |
| Water Depth: | 10,000 ft |
| Variable Deck Load | 8202 tonnes |
Deepwater Horizon is a 5th generation, dynamic positioned (DP), Semi-submerisble oil rig owned by Transocean.
[edit] History
Designed originally for R&B Falcon, she was completed in 2001 by Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan, South Korea, after their merger with Transocean. She is the second of two in her class, although her sister ship, the Deepwater Nautilus is not DP.
Since arriving in the Gulf of Mexico, Deepwater Horizon has been under contract to BP Exploration. Her work includes wells in the Atlantis and Thunderhorse fields and a 2006 discovery in the Kaskida field. [1]
[edit] External links
- Latest Reported Position from Sailwx
- American Bureau of Shipping (ABS). DEEPWATER HORIZON (Vessel Details}. ABS Record. American Bureau of Shipping.23 Sep 2007
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