Ship&Offshore | Issue 08/2012
New versatile designs for sophisticated offshore tasks
DRILLING AND CONSTRUCTION The range of large ships employed in the offshore industry includes seismic vessels for oil and gas exploration; drillships, pipelayers and crane vessels to exploit the fields; and floating production units for processing. Each of the different types is fitted with sophisticated equipment, writes shipbuilding expert Ralf Witthohn in the current edition of our series “Innovative Vessels”.