Deepwater Horizon was an offshore drilling rig.
It was registered in Majuro, the capital city of the Marshall Islands (equatorial islands in the Pacific Ocean) and constructed in 2001 by Hyundai Heavy Industries.
It was owned by Transocean and leased to BP. Deepwater Horizon drilled the deepest oil well in history in September 2009 at a vertical depth of 10,683m in the Tiber Oil Field in the Gulf of Mexico.
It used both
DP uses differential GPS, as the position obtained by ordinary GPS is insufficiently accurate for Dynamic Positioning.
Differential GPS improves accuracy with the aid of a ground-based reference station.
A film based on the blowout at the Deepwater Horizon was directed by New York-born Peter Berg (who also directed Battleship in 2012) starring Dorchester, Boston-born Mark Wahlberg.
Dorchester is steeped in history; it was founded a few months before the founding of the City of Boston.
It was registered in Majuro, the capital city of the Marshall Islands (equatorial islands in the Pacific Ocean) and constructed in 2001 by Hyundai Heavy Industries.
It was owned by Transocean and leased to BP. Deepwater Horizon drilled the deepest oil well in history in September 2009 at a vertical depth of 10,683m in the Tiber Oil Field in the Gulf of Mexico.
It used both
- semi-submersible (think "floating oi rig") and
- dynamic positioning (DP) technology.
DP uses differential GPS, as the position obtained by ordinary GPS is insufficiently accurate for Dynamic Positioning.
Differential GPS improves accuracy with the aid of a ground-based reference station.
A film based on the blowout at the Deepwater Horizon was directed by New York-born Peter Berg (who also directed Battleship in 2012) starring Dorchester, Boston-born Mark Wahlberg.
Dorchester is steeped in history; it was founded a few months before the founding of the City of Boston.
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