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... first primary data for this study is the reference ship, namely the drillship Oribis One .as made avaliable by Fossli and Hendriks [4]. Based on this data, New drillship was designed as reported in ref [1]. The general arrangement is exhibited in Figure 1 with principal particulars as presented in Table 1. The peculiar feature of a drillship is the arrangement of moonpool to accommodate the extension of drill pipe and riser from the drilling rig down to the seabed. As a moonpool basically is a large opening, then hull structural strength in this location is reduced substantially. Therefore certain strengthening should be established in this ...
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