So what is a Jack-Up?
A Jack-Up unit is a barge with legs that can be lowered or raised. The barge is towed to the drilling location with its legs in the raised position. Once in position, the legs are lowered. When they reach the sea-bed, the barge's body is hoisted above the water, creating a stable drilling platform. The length of the legs determines the depth of water in which a jack-up barge can be used. They can generally be used in up to 100 meters of water. Jack-up barges are widely employed in the relatively shallow waters of the North Sea's Southern basin. Surprisingly, many areas of the North Sea are not too deep for this type of installation to operate.
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Transocean Jack-Ups
C.E. Thornton D.R. Stewart F.G. McClintock G.H. Galloway Harvey H. Ward Interocean III J.T. Angel Randolph Yost Roger W. Mowell Ron Tappmeyer Shelf Explorer Transocean Comet Transocean Mercury Transocean Nordic Trident 12 Trident 14 Trident 15 Trident 16
Trident 17 Trident 2 Trident 20 Trident 4 Trident 6 Trident 8 Trident
GlobalSantaFe Jack-Ups
Galaxy I Galaxy II Galaxy III Magellan Monarch Monitor Adriatic I Adriatic II Adriatic III Adriatic IX Adriatic V Adriatic VI Adriatic VII Adriatic VIII Adriatic X Adriatic XI Baltic Britannia Compact Driller Constellation I Constellation II Galveston Key High Island I High Island II High Island III High Island IV High Island IX High Island V High Island VII High Island VIII Key Gibraltar Key Hawaii Key Manhattan Key Singapore Labrador Main Pass I Main Pass IV Parameswara Rig 103 Rig 105 Rig 124 Rig 127 Rig 134 Rig 136 Rig 141
Noble Corporation Jack-Ups
Dhabi II Noble Al White Noble Bill Jennings Noble Byron Welliver Noble Carl Norberg Noble Charles Copeland Noble Charlie Yester Noble Chuck Syring Noble David Tinsley Noble Dick Favor Noble Don Walker Noble Earl Frederickson Noble Ed Holt Noble Ed Noble Noble Eddie Paul Noble Gene House
This page is by no mean complete, the above companies do have other rigs that I have not put a link to, basically to limit the number of links that I have on one page.
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