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Aluminum Risers Vie for Similar Offshore Opportunity to CFRP Composites Drill Riser.

Advanced Materials & Composites News, March, 2004

March 15, 2004 - Offshore oil drilling risers of CFRP composites don't have the perceived market opportunity all to themselves. Noble Corporation subsidiary Maurer Technology, a partner in the effort noted below, also is helping to develop lightweight aluminum risers for deepwater offshore drilling applications.

[we credit Aluminum Now for their January/February 2004 report on Noble's experimentation with this new technology - relevant edited excerpts and comments follow]. Fig. 1 - Drill ship with typical drill configuration for offshore deepwater US-based Noble Corporation (Sugar Land, Texas) has successfully tested an aluminum riser in deepwater oil operations off Brazil. Using the capability of Russian manufacturer Aquatic, the companies have produced...

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