Platform rig:

Platform rigs may be built of steel or concrete and may be either rigid or compliant.

Rigid platform rigs, which rest on the seafloor, are the caisson-type platform, the concrete gravity platform, and the steel-jacket platform.

Compliant platform rigs, which are used in deeper waters and yield to water and wind movements are the guyed-tower platform and the tension-leg platform.

Terms Related to Platform rig

• Concrete gravity platform rig

  A rigid offshore drilling platform built of steel-reinforced concrete and used to drill development wells. The platform is floated to the drilling site in a ...

• Guyed-tower platform rig

  A compliant offshore drilling platform used to drill development wells. The foundation of the platform is a relatively lightweight jacket upon which all equipment is ...

• Caisson-type platform rig

  A rigid offshore drilling platform that stands on steel caissons and is used to drill development wells. The caissons are firmly affixed to the seafloor, ...

• Caisson

  1. One of several columns made of steel or concrete, which serves as the foundation for a rigid offshore platform rig, such as the concrete ...

• Satellite well

  Usually a single well drilled offshore by a mobile offshore drilling unit to produce hydrocarbons from the outer fringes of a reservoir that cannot be ...

• Catwalk

  1. The ramp at the side of the drilling rig where pipe is laid to be lifted to the derrick floor by the catline or ...

• Drilling platform rig

  See platform rig.