Trelleborg’s Buoyancy Technology Receives Pioneering Technologies Award
Critical to delivering onboard operations offshore is the drill riser, which provides a conduit for the drill string and drilling fluids from the ocean floor to the rig. However, this has significant weight, which must be supported by its own structure and ultimately by the drilling vessel. After pioneering the introduction of commercial syntactic foams in 1957, the need to reduce a drilling riser’s net weight in water, and ensure that the structure and drilling vessel are supported lead to Trelleborg supplying the first syntactic riser buoyancy modules for use in oil drilling in the