Services

The following services can be provided:

• Review drilling rig designs (capabilities, light ship weight, comparison with competition etc.).

• Support in buying and recycling (drilling) rigs and ships (incl. contracts).

• Advise in surveying stacked drilling rigs and determine costs/time/resources to reactivate these rigs.

• Advise in resolving stability, motion and structural problems of floating hulls and jack-ups (hull, pedestals etc.).

• Perform surveys/audits of vessels in operation or being constructed.

• Review and coordinate vessel dry-dockings and dry-wet tows.

• Advise in conversion of dedicated drilling rigs into more versatile multipurpose vessels.

• Review insurance and incident claims.

• Provide support in negotiating new (drilling) rig construction or upgrade shipyard contracts.

• Setting up and support implementing rig refurbishment/reactivation and upgrade projects.

• Review impact of specific client requirements on construction (incl. Pbras, ONGC, Statoil CATJ, Aramco Schedule G, Arctic design rules/guidelines, local/international helideck design rules).

• Advise in charting and resolving disputes about root causes of delays and associated (technical, commercial) problems of drilling rig shipyard construction projects.

• Work as technical advisor in legal disputes associated with drilling rigs or act as an (expert) witness specialist in legal disputes.

• Review existing operations/marketing/engineering management systems of offshore drilling contractors and generate improvements in Rig Operations Manuals, Rig Technical Specifications, Rig Management of Change register etc.