While offshore drilling in shallower waters allows a jackup to position itself on the sea floor above the location, drilling in deepwaters requires the rig, whether a semisub or a drillship, to float ...

The Office of Investigations and Casualty Analysis has released Safety Alert 11-22 regarding an incident involving weaknesses within Dynamic Positioning Systems. Dynamic positioning (DP) systems 1 ...

The United States Coast Guard issued the following Marine Safety Alert rergarding Dynamic Positioning Systems. This particular ship had equipment arrangements that exceeded minimum DP equipment class ...

Kongsberg Maritime is marking 50 years since the introduction of its first dynamic positioning (DP) system, a Norwegian innovation that transformed offshore operations and set new standards for safety ...

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) of the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, said in a bulletin that "the ship's dynamic positioning system lost heading control and ...