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Project Number 475
Date of Summary June 23, 2003
Subject Workshop on Deepwater Drilling: Where are we headed? By International Association of Drilling Contractors
Performing Activity IADC
Principal Investigator Mike Killalea
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Completion Completed
Description

JIP workshop on Deepwater Drilling. The workshop was held on June 18 and 19, 2003. The workshop identified 3 areas of interest:

1)    Identify and discuss the technical gaps that remain in ultra-deepwater drilling;

2)    Discuss the directions that industry needs to take to address these technical gaps, and

3)    Identify current deepwater drilling technologies that can be applied to shallow-water and onshore drilling applications.
Progress Workshop was completed.

 

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