- Deepwater Millennium
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Career Name: Deepwater Millennium Owner: Triton Hungary Asset Management Operator: Transocean Port of registry: Marshall Islands, Majuro Builder: Samsung Heavy Industries
Geoje, South KoreaLaid down: 21 July 1998 Launched: 30 April 1999 Identification: ABS class no: 9936928
Call sign: V7HD2
DNV ID: 24035
IMO number: 9180229Status: Operational Notes: [1] General characteristics Class and type: American Bureau of Shipping Tonnage: 103,000 DWT; 60,083 GRT Length: 221.5 m (727 ft) Beam: 42 m (138 ft) Depth: 20 m (66 ft) Installed power: 3 x Wärtsilä 18V32 9,333 hp diesel gensets
3 x Wärtsilä 12V32 6,266 hp diesel gensetsPropulsion: 6 x Kamewa 4,000 kW azimuth thrusters Capacity: Cargo oil: 15,870 m3 (560,000 cu ft)
Freshwater: 1,355 m3 (47,900 cu ft)
Fuel oil: 5,378 m3 (189,900 cu ft)
Tank ballast: 81,085 m3 (2,863,500 cu ft)Notes: [1][2] Deepwater Millennium is a fifth generation Samsung/Reading & Bates designed, dynamic positioned (DP) Marshall Islands-flagged drillship owned by Transocean. The vessel is capable of drilling in water depths up to 8,100 ft (upgradable to 10,000 ft) using an 18.75 in (47.6 cm), 15,000 psi blowout preventer (BOP), and a 21 in (53 cm) outside diameter (OD) marine riser.[3]
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History
Built originally for R&B Falcon, she was completed in 1999 by Samsung Heavy Industries in Geoje, South Korea. In 2001 R&B Falcon merged with Transocean Sedco-Forex. She is the third of five Deepwater Pathfinder class ships.
After initial work in the Gulf of Mexico, Deepwater Millennium drilled wells off West Africa and Brazil. With the exception of one well off Nova Scotia in the summer of 2002, she has been in the Gulf continuously since 2001. Her work includes wells for Kerr-McGee, Pioneer, Marathon Oil, Mariner, Chevron Corporation, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Statoil, and Petrobras.[4]
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References
- ^ a b "ABS Record: Deepwater Millennium". American Bureau of Shipping. http://www.eagle.org/safenet/record/record_vesseldetailsprinparticular?Classno=9936928. Retrieved 4 June 2010.
- ^ "Vessel Info: Deepwater Millennium". DNV Exchange. Det Norske Veritas. 2010. http://exchange-staging2.dnv.com/exchange/main.aspx?extool=myvi&vesselid=24035. Retrieved 4 June 2010.
- ^ "Deepwater Millennium". Transocean. 2010. http://www.deepwater.com/fw/main/Deepwater-Millennium-57C14.html?LayoutID=177. Retrieved 07 June 2010.
- ^ Anadarko Petroleum (Thursday, August 31, 2006). "BP & Partners Make Discovery at Kaskida Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico". Rigzone. http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=35730. Retrieved 4 June 2010.
External links
- Transocean official website
- Deepwater Millennium at RigZone
- Deepwater Millennium — V7HD2 — latest reported position from Sailwx
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Categories:- Ships built in South Korea
- Drillships
- Transocean
- Ships built by Samsung Heavy Industries
- 1999 ships
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