Offshore drilling contractor North Atlantic Drillinghas agreed to purchase two next-generation GE Oil & Gas (NYSE: GE) SeaONYXTM blowout preventer (BOP) control systems , upgrading control spreads on board NAD’s semi-submersible West Venture and drill ship West Navigator.
The SeaONYX BOP control system extends system availability by incorporating multiple redundancies and hot-swappable components to keep operations online. SeaONYX is built upon GE’s proven Mark VIe architecture, at work in more than 2,000 wind, hydroelectric and nuclear power installations worldwide.
In addition to improved uptime performance compared to other controllers, SeaONYX is a keystone of GE’s predictive drilling management technology, which helps drillers to address issues before they occur.
Blowout preventers are critical pieces of drilling equipment that are used to isolate pressure in oil and gas wells during drilling or close the well entirely in an emergency. The SeaONYX BOP control system is available as an upgrade to existing GE BOP controllers and is included in all new GE Oil & Gas BOP stacks for floating drilling rigs.
Source: GE