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| Pipeline construction completed just in time The artificial drilling and production island "Mittelplatte"in the Wattenmeer off Friedrichskoog is getting a new ultramodern drilling rig, the T 150, a colossus comprising a 2, 200 tonne steel structure and machinery scheduled to come on stream around mid-December, 2005, for drilling for oil at a depth of 10, 000 meters in the North Sea. ThyssenKrupp Xervon, headquartered in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, has been responsible for fabricating and laying the some 3, 000 meters of continuous pipeline. The client for the equipment costing about 38 million Euros is the Mittelplate Consortium consisting of RWE - DEA AG and Wintershall AG. Bentec GmbH Drilling & Oilfield Systems in Bad Bentheim was in charge of building and installing the T 150 (following the successful test run). write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Construction News :: home page |