Bennett Offshore ProvidesServices from Conceptsto Detailed Engineering
Since our founding in 1997, owners and operators of mobile drilling and production units and offshore marine vessels around the globe have turned to Bennett Offshore’s engineers for help with everything from small naval architecture and structural issues to fleet newbuilds and upgrades. We built our reputation by finding innovative answers to our clients' toughest challenges. Today, we remain a small, dedicated team of experienced engineers, but we have become a leading name in the offshore industry.
In 2012, Bennett Offshore became part of Keppel Offshore and Marine, giving us access to Keppel's
renowned construction support and enabling us to provide a full range of solutions, from concepts to systems and detailed engineering to turnkey engineering, procurement and construction projects.
Bennett collaborated with the Offshore Technology Development group of Keppel Offshore & Marine to design the high-tech ORCA series of liftboats and self-elevating platforms. The first ORCA 2500, customized for the Middle East and North Africa, was delivered to a Qatari rig operator in Febuary 2016. A high-specification ORCA 3500 is currently under construction by Keppel FELS for delivery in Q4 2017. We have one SEP designed specifically for the transportation and installation of offshore wind turbines. Bennett designs can be built by Keppel or at approved yards anywhere in the world.
No project is too big or too small for Bennett Offshore. Despite our growth, small
consulting, naval architecture and structural projects remain an important facet of our business. We can provide any level of engineering support our clients may require. Our mission remains the same as it was when we opened our doors years ago, to become the most trusted name in offshore engineering.
LATEST NEWS
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May 17, 2016Bennett Assists Keppel FELS in Ocean Apex LiftHOUSTON, Texas – Bennett Offshore recently provided Keppel FELS with engineering
support in preparation for a lift of Diamond Offshore’s semisubmersible rig Ocean Apex. The lift operation was a success, and was carried out as predicted, at Keppel FELS in Singapore by the semisubmersible FELS Can Do Barge.
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Feb. 15, 2016N-KOM Delivers First Liftboat in QatarDOHA, Qatar – Nakilat-Keppel Offshore & Marine (N-KOM), the joint venture shipyard between Qatar's Nakilat and Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M), has successfully delivered its first liftboat unit, Al Safliya, to Qatari rig operator Gulf Drilling International (GDI). The liftboat was designed by Bennett Offshore.
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July 13, 2015Keppel Secures High Specification Liftboat OrderSINGAPORE – Keppel FELS Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd, has secured a contract from Crystal Heights Holdings Limited to build a high specification liftboat. The liftboat is designed by Keppel O&M's liftboat design specialist, Bennett Offshore, in collaboration with Keppel FELS.
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Nov. 11, 2014Bennett Liftboat Design Showcased at ADIPECAbu Dhabi, U.A.E. – Nakilat-Keppel Offshore & Marine (N-KOM) promoted its new customized liftboat, LB310, in November at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference (ADIPEC). The liftboat was designed by Bennett Offshore.
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Sept. 2, 2014N-KOM Lays Keel for Bennett Designed LiftboatDOHA, Qatar – Nakilat-Keppel Offshore & Marine (N-KOM) has achieved another milestone with the keel laying of its first liftboat new-build project. The liftboat was designed by Bennett Offshore.
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For engineers and students using this archive
Most people who reach these pages arrive with a job to do, and two groups turn up again and again.
Engineers trained outside the English-speaking world read the restored pages to see how an American design office described its own work: self-elevating platforms, preload, bare deck variable load. Applying to an offshore contractor in Houston, Singapore or Aberdeen, they need that same precision in a letter, in plain English and on one page. A guide to writing a cover letter in English as a non-native professional is a sensible place to begin, and the glossary covers the vocabulary.
Students are the other group, and the case they ask about most is Ocean Ranger, lost on the Grand Banks in February 1982 with all 84 people aboard. A broken portlight did not sink the rig on its own. The US Coast Guard board traced a chain: seawater in the ballast control room, valves opening on the panel, flooded chain lockers, then capsize. Telling a chain like that apart from a bare sequence of events is the skill a causal analysis essay asks for. Our note on the Ocean Ranger disaster sets out the findings with sources.