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Transverse Skidding

Jurong Shipyard developed a new Transverse Skidding method to allow multiple oil rigs to be constructed simultaneously. This involved building the upper hulls on reinforced land and skidding them over to drydocks where they could be mated with lower hulls. This was combined with their existing Load-out and Mating-in-Dock technique. Using these methods, they were able to construct two semi-submersible rigs, West Sirius and West Taurus, at the same time in a safe and cost-effective way. The Transverse Skidding technique involved side-skidding the upper hull of West Taurus onto a skid truss for its assembly, improving on being able to build

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Transverse Skidding

Jurong Shipyard developed a new Transverse Skidding method to allow multiple oil rigs to be constructed simultaneously. This involved building the upper hulls on reinforced land and skidding them over to drydocks where they could be mated with lower hulls. This was combined with their existing Load-out and Mating-in-Dock technique. Using these methods, they were able to construct two semi-submersible rigs, West Sirius and West Taurus, at the same time in a safe and cost-effective way. The Transverse Skidding technique involved side-skidding the upper hull of West Taurus onto a skid truss for its assembly, improving on being able to build

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Transverse Skidding

Jurong Shipyard took its successful Load-out and Mating-in-Dock innovation further by developing the ingenious Transverse Skidding Method. The combination of these two methods would allow multiple rigs to be constructed simultaneously and assembled se uentially in a safe! secure manner at a relatively low cost. "rior to that! only one semi-submersible could be constructed at any one time. The yard applied its newly developed #Transverse Skidding$ techni ue together with its breakthrough #Loadout % Mating-in-Dock$ process for the fast-track construction of two si&th-generation semi-submersible rigs! 'est Sirius and 'est Taurus! for (orway)s Seadrill. The first rig unit! 'est Sirius! was successfully assembled in the second uarter of *++, using the #Load-out % Mating-in-Dock$ techni ue. -ere! the rig)s upper hull was built on a skid truss on reinforced land and skidded over and mated with its lower hull in the drydock. The #Transverse Skidding$ techni ue was then used to transfer the upper hull of the second semi-submersible rig! 'est Taurus! onto the withdrawn skid truss via a side-skidding process in preparation for its load-out and mating operation The combination of these two processes enabled multiple rigs to be constructed simultaneously and assembled se uentially in a safe and secure manner at relatively lower cost. The #Transverse Skidding$ process further improved on the original #Load-out % Mating-in-Dock$ techni ue which allowed only one semi-submersible to be built at a time.

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