There is now a rig that can assemble itself and also "walk," unaided, from one drilling site to the next.
Such vehicles are called articulated lorries in Britain, although they tend to be a bit puny compared with American rigs that can weigh 32,000kg (70,000lbs) or more.
Cenovus is trying out a miniature rig that can be helicoptered in piece by piece to minimize the carving of boggy forests with service roads.
Exploratory drilling from floating rigs that can be towed away from icebergs generally cannot be done through ice, so the drilling season will be short.
They were planning to spend Monday night bulldozing a road outside the mine to make way for a drilling rig that can punch holes large enough to improve ventilation and help rescuers determine whether the men were alive, The Associated Press reported.
This, in combination with the use of a novel launch rig that can be towed behind a variety of support ships, rather than having to rely on specially built vessels of the sort that support Alvin, means, Mr Rush believes, that Cyclops 2 will be as cheap to run as an ROV while offering the advantages of having its human operators actually within it.
The labor-green alliance is getting under the trucking industry's skin by asserting that short-haul trucking companies working in ports — and not the truck drivers, who are often considered independent contractors — should spend the billions needed to buy new, low-emission rigs that can cost $100,000 to $175,000 each.
These are highly mobile land rigs that can be easily moved, which reduces drilling costs for producers.
At the same time, Global Marine has concentrated its fleet around rigs that can drill in more than 250 feet of water, as oil companies look farther and farther offshore for reserves in places like West Africa and Brazil.
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