Stena DrillMAX in Miniature | Maritime Innovation in Miniature Series 2

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This is a model of Stena DrillMAX, one of the most technologically advanced deep water drill ships in the world, used to explore for oil and gas. Such offshore drilling requires exceptional levels of skill and enormously complex operating systems. Ships like this represent one of the greatest achievements in the history of maritime technology.

Stena DrillMAX was built for Stena Drilling by Samsung Heavy Industries and delivered in 2007, one of a series of four drillships designed to operate efficiently in the harshest environments on earth. To drill, a complex drilling assembly is lowered from the ship to the seabed by screwing sections of drillpipe together to then drill deep down into the earth below. She has a maximum drilling depth of 35,000 ft: just over six and a half miles.

To provide stability for this work and space for the equipment, the vessel is very wide with a breadth of 42 metres. The central mast tower contains a hoisting system to raise and lower the drilling equipment, a highly advanced fully hydraulic system that is unique to Stena drillships. There are two separate well centres, the main, and the auxiliary. The main well has a lifting capacity of 2 million lbs, the auxiliary of 1.2 million. The two well centres optimise the efficiency of the drilling process.

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