胜科海事已向 Transocean 交付了世界上第一艘 20,000 psi 钻井船，该单位计划于 2023 年第二季度与雪佛龙公司签订为期五年的合同，在墨西哥湾开展工作。

Transocean 在最近的 LinkedIn 帖子中表示，公司已于 12 月 10 日在新加坡举行的官方命名仪式上庆祝了该公司最新的第 8 代钻井船的诞生。

“这是最大的钩载，也是世界上最坚固的钻机。” 一定是泰坦号，”Transocean 总裁兼首席运营官基兰·亚当森 (Keelan Adamson) 在 LinkedIn 上的一段视频中说道。

除了两台 20,000 防喷器外，双井架 Deepwater Titan 还配备 300 万磅的钩载起重能力，可钻探深度达 40,000 英尺，作业水深达 12,000 英尺。它还配有井控、立管和管道用于高压和高温钻井和完井作业的系统。

“高钩负载、泥浆系统、20,000 psi、压力控制设备，所有这些都为该行业带来了新的机遇，我们相信它们将会变得丰富，”Transocean 首席执行官 Jeremy Thigpen 说道在视频中。

该钻井平台是第二艘第八代钻井船，基于胜科海事专有的 Jurong Espadon 3T 设计，并已交付给 Transocean 子公司 Triton Titan GmBH。  

6月，胜科还向同一家Transocean子公司交付了世界上第一艘第八代钻井船，即姊妹钻机Deepwater Atlas。已准备好 20,000 艘，但离开造船厂时还剩下 15,000 艘 BOP，该船将用于 Beacon Offshore Energy 三个合同中的第一个。在第二份钻井合同之前的升级将在钻井船上增加 20,000 BOP，这将使其成为 Transocean 的第二个拥有 20,000 psi 额定井控系统的资产。

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胜科海事总裁兼首席执行官 Wong Weng Sun 在一份新闻稿中表示，第八代超深水钻井船正在“定义未来海上钻井的标准”。 

Transocean 新造船总监汤姆·阿特金斯 (Tom Atkins) 在视频中表示，20,000 psi 防喷器代表了近海深水空间的一个里程碑。

“其他地方有 20,000 psi 的工作，但海底没有，”他说。“这首先开辟了一个行业。”

对于 Transocean 执行副总裁兼首席商务官 Roddie Mackenzie 来说，Titan 代表着开发新水库的能力。

他在视频中表示，“泰坦”号“开辟了钻探的下一个前沿：更深、更高的压力，开辟了以前无法获得的资源”。

Sembcorp Marine has delivered the world’s first 20,000-psi drillship to Transocean, and the unit is slated to start a five-year contract with Chevron Corp. for work in the Gulf of Mexico in the second quarter of 2023.

In a recent LinkedIn post, Transocean said it had celebrated the company’s newest 8th-generation drillship at its official naming ceremony in Singapore on Dec. 10.

“It’s the highest hookload, it’s the strongest rig that exists in the world. It had to be the Titan,” Transocean President and COO Keelan Adamson said in a video on LinkedIn.

In addition to its two 20,000 BOPs, the dual derrick Deepwater Titan is equipped with 3 million lb hook-load hoisting capacity, can drill up to 40,000 ft and operate in water depths to 12,000 ft. It also has well-control, riser and piping systems for high-pressure and high-temperature drilling and completion operations.

“The high hook load, the mud system, the 20,000 psi, the pressure control equipment, all of it opens up new opportunities for the industry, and we believe they’re going to be abundant,” Transocean CEO Jeremy Thigpen said in the video.

The rig, which is the second 8th-generation drillship, is based on Sembcorp Marine’s proprietary Jurong Espadon 3T design and was delivered to Transocean subsidiary Triton Titan GmBH.  

In June, Sembcorp also delivered the world’s first eighth-generation drillship, sister rig Deepwater Atlas, to the same Transocean subsidiary. It is 20,000 ready but left the shipyard with a 15,000 BOP that was to be used on the first of three contracts for Beacon Offshore Energy. An upgrade before the second drilling contract will see the addition of a 20,000 BOP onto the drillship, which will make it Transocean’s second asset with a 20,000 psi-rated well control system.

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Wong Weng Sun, Sembcorp Marine president and CEO, said in a press release that the 8th-generation ultra-deepwater drillships were “redefining standards for the future of offshore drilling." 

The 20,000 psi BOPs represent a milestone in the offshore deepwater space, Tom Atkins, newbuild director at Transocean, said in the video.

“There has been 20,000 psi work elsewhere but not subsea,” he said. “This opens up an industry first.”

To Transocean EVP and chief commercial officer Roddie Mackenzie, the Titan represents the ability to tap into new reservoirs.

The Titan “enables the next frontier of drilling: deeper, higher pressures, opening up previously inaccessible resources,” he said in the video.